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Triclosan; Good or Bad?
Zebb
28-12-2016
Triclosan is widely used in hand washes, deodorants and toothpastes.

However, it is now considered by some to be a health concern and want it banned.

What say you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan
evil c
29-12-2016
Thanks for posting this.

I've checked all my household cleaning products, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, and hand soap (stopped using hand wash a couple of years ago), and no triclosan.

I must admit triclosan is one ingredient that's slipped under my radar, and having read the article I'm quite concerned about the environmental issues it raises, and in particular marine life, but the same can be said about other synthetic ingredients in cosmetic and household cleaning products.

In the paragraph about alternatives to triclosan the author suggests silver nanoparticles as one, but moves are afoot to ban these, due to their ingestion by aquatic organisms and subsequently ending up in the food chain, as doubtless you are aware of anyway.

The misleading marketing and natural looking pictures that appear on product labelling and adverts is cause for concern too. Consumers are easily taken in by flowers and fruit and pretty colours, and terms like natural, biodegradeable, ph balanced etc.

I wrote a scathing review for a well known hand wash on Amazon explaining about this, albeit in a small way, giving the product 2 stars as opposed to the remainder of the reviews all 4 and 5 star, and mine is now the top review.
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