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18 POINTS ON NATURAL SKIN HEALTH
AND TRANSDERMAL TOXICITY 1.
Skin cells are composed of stratified epithelial tissue, very similar
to the
human digestive tract. 2.
Skin cells
require nourishment with nutrients that are useful to the
cells, either
as fuel or as structural material. 3.
Skin cells require the drainage/removal of waste products produced by
cellular
metabolism or internal/external toxicity from food, water, air, or
skin/scalp
contact. 4.
Therefore the absolute best way to achieve natural good healthy skin is
to give
it good nerve supply, lymphatic drainage, and a good clean
nutrient-rich and
healthy blood supply, while avoiding toxic chemical exposure. 5.
The
human skin is absorbent, just like the digestive tract, and
therefore substances
placed onto the human skin penetrate into the underlying tissues and
eventually
contact the blood where they circulate through vital organs.
Herbalists
have
used this to advantage in the form of foot and hand baths for many
years. Nicotine patches also work for this reason, and
can
provoke acute toxicity effects in people when overused for the same
reason. 6.
Substances placed on the skin can be grouped into three broad
categories: (i) inert
- not absorbable through the skin, not useful to human cells, non-toxic (ii) nutritive
- useful to human cells for either nourishment or fuel (iii)
toxic - not useful to human cells for either nourishment or fuel, and
requiring
either detoxification, or toxin-binding and static cellular storage to
prevent
them from circulating and causing ongoing damage. The
result of this static storage is localized intercellular toxicity,
potentially
predisposing to cellular changes like carcinogenesis, and
teratrogenesis. Toxins that undergo this type of
storage are cumulative
and build up over the years. 7. Millions
of years of human cell evolution, exposure, and natural selection, has
produced
cells with a certain set of biological processes and
capacities. Hence, exposure to certain groups of
natural
chemicals for many generations of humans and human cells has resulted
in an
excellent capacity to deal competently with these natural
chemicals. The
comparatively new wave of toxic
chemicals in
recent millennia/centuries, very recently often derived from material
leftover
from the petrochemical industry (imagine the waste disposal fees they
can save
paying when they can sell it as a product ingredient instead of paying
for
sealed landfill space!), are foreign to human
cells. Enzyme
pathways, and detoxification mechanisms do not exist for many or
perhaps any of
these, and it has been reported that toxicity effects from simultaneous
multiple toxin exposure seem to be greater and more complex than the
sum of
many single toxin exposures owing to interactive and other effects. 8. In
short, natural health advocates often say, very simply: "IF
YOU
WOULDN'T EAT IT, DON'T PUT IT ON YOUR SKIN." 9. Extremely
short-term exposures to pure simple soaps (fat + alkali salt, e.g.
olive oil +
salts in wood ashes = castille soap) seem harmless. 10.
Your scalp is
part of your skin, your digestive tract is your inner
skin, and
your mouth, gums, tongue, eyes, sexual organ membranes, and conjunctiva
are all
also absorbent tissues made of very similar cells. 11.
The transit of
toxic chemicals through the skin surface into the body
has been
dubbed TRANSDERMAL POISONING, causing TRANSDERMAL TOXICITY, and occurs
in both
acute and chronic/cumulative forms. 12.
Toxicity is a
primary causative factor of disease in
humans. To recover from illness or aspire to
health,
it is
prudent to remove wherever possible any known sources of toxicity and
harm from
one's environment/lifestyle. 13.
It is therefore
prudent as an act of personal responsibility to
carefully
scrutinise what substances the surfaces of your body come into contact
with. This includes all dental materials, hard
soaps,
liquid
soaps, massage oils, dishwashing detergents (residue on dishes and
hands),
clothes-washing powders/liquids/dyes (residues on clothes), synthetic
fibres
(clothes and other), paints, stains, woodfinishes, cosmetics, shaving
creams,
deodorants, perfumes, shampoos, conditioners, lip balms, lip sticks,
moisturizers,
scrubs, toothpastes, tooth powders, mouthwashes, mascara,suncreams,
skin
creams, waxes, hair products, hair gels,body and footpowders, insect
repellants, bathing water (can contain volatile chlorine and many other
chemicals), bubble baths, bath salts, foot powders, body powders,
foundation,
make-up, spray/paste-on tans, bodywrap products, spa products,
linaments,
balms, poultices, compresses, tampons, sexual lubricants, sexual aids,
Teflon
cookware, food chemical additives, aluminium cookware, anticaking
agents in
commercially produced salt, and all other products used in internal or
external
body applications or that come into contact with living human cells. 14.
Practitioners of natural and traditional medicine should carefully
consider the
code of ethics of their membership organisation. It
usually
contains a derivative of a sentiment from the Hippocratic Oath: "First
do
no harm." Practitioners should do their best to ensure
that they do not breach this code of ethics by using toxic chemicals on
their
clients, or coercing clients to use them on themselves. Herbalists who
make
creams for their clients should avoid any petrochemicals or other toxic
chemicals in the bases or other ingredients of their creams (Some say
sorbalene
fits into this category). 15.
As a duty of care towards their customers and employees, all
practitioners,
employees, and businesses involved in
marketing/producing/using/encouraging the
use of products (and giving/encouraging treatments with these
products), which
contact human skin or tissue, would be wise to openly disclose to their
customers and employees, and fellow employees, all the ingredients of
these
products, indicate anything reasonably known or suspected about their
toxicity
levels and cumulative toxicity effects, and obtain educated and
informed
consent from each and every customer and employee on each and every
treatment/sale, with each and every product. Failure
to do so
could be viewed legally as a breach of duty of care or worse, and could
incur
significant legal liability. Class action suits are a
possibility. 16.
These toxins,
after being applied to living human tissues, are washed
into our
sewers and water treatment facilities, and eventually leach and travel
into the
ground water and contaminate streams, estuaries, water catchments, the
ocean
and all its inhabitants, the polar ice cap and northern indigenous
tribespeople, and eventually and potentially every being on the planet,
cumulatively, through air and water movement patterns. Perhaps
the manufacturers and promoters of such products would like to ask
permission
of each and every planetary citizen and whether they mind? 17.
If it be decided by a business or practitioner, after toxicity concerns
are
raised or toxicity information is offered, to continue using,
promoting, and
selling toxin-containing products and treatments with these
toxin-containing
products, this may be legally hazardous, and morally wrong. At the very
least,
it may be wise to obtain educated and informed consent, and offer an
alternative
completely non-toxic range of products as an option for each and every
product
known to contain toxins, for each and every employee, for each and
every
client, and for each and every treatment. 18.
So what can you do?
BEWARE
OF THOSE WHO WOULD PROFIT FROM YOUR IGNORANCE OR APATHY
BELIEVE
YOU
CAN DO ALL THIS FOR YOURSELF. TAKE PERSONAL
RESPONSIBILITY AND
DON'T HAND OVER YOUR HEALTH TO THOSE WHO WOULD PROFIT FROM YOUR
IGNORANCE,
APATHY, OR SELF-DOUBT.
TRANSDERMAL
POISONING MUST STOP! Respectfully
submitted, by
Kyle
Grimshaw-Jones, email:
kyle@winshop.com.au Copyright
August 15th 2005 The
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