Toothpaste Ingredient Tied to Cancer
The toothpaste you’re using may be linked to cancer-cell growth.
Millions of Americans may be putting a cancer-causing ingredient in their mouths every day.
It’s called triclosan, and it’s in Colgate Total, Colgate-Palmolive’s (CL) top-selling toothpaste.
Triclosan has reportedly been linked to cancer in animals.
Many consumer companies have phased it out, and Minnesota has banned it.
Colgate says triclosan helps fight gum disease, and the FDA approved it 17 years ago. more
The toothpaste you’re using may be linked to cancer-cell growth.
Millions of Americans may be putting a cancer-causing ingredient in their mouths every day.
It’s called triclosan, and it’s in Colgate Total, Colgate-Palmolive’s (CL) top-selling toothpaste.
Triclosan has reportedly been linked to cancer in animals.
Many consumer companies have phased it out, and Minnesota has banned it.
Colgate says triclosan helps fight gum disease, and the FDA approved it 17 years ago. more
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Ramdev patanjali paste and vicco bajradanti powder are really best to use. One of my relative who was working in colgate company asked us not to use it 10years ago so we stopped using it since then. more
Aug 20
Thanks for the info. I and my family have been using Colgate Total every now and then ... more
Aug 19
Yes. Grovear ji. Trichlosan is not totally safe product. But in today's chemical world, how many products and chemical that go into making such products can we study or ban? The Government should have a strong mechanism to filter and ban all such products. But that takes years to do due to various test on animals, environment, and on humans. I only believe we can not escape the onslaught of these foreign companies which sell their products by strength of their advertisements and their capacity to buy the approval agencies. We as common people are helpless both ways. Take any product manufactured and sit before google to check the ingredients that go into the product, be it food item, cosmetics, toiletries and whatever, a man with a weak heart will go crazy! Just as an example, the amounts of EDTA and SLS that go into toiletries and soaps is so huge that they are contaminating all our rivers and are adversely effecting all aqua life! A recent news clip says the Lifebuoy soap which Levers introduced in India as an antibacterial soap is not even approved for bathing pet dogs in the UK. And the tragedy is that we are using it blindly before and after eating food ! Volumes have been written on all such products but yet no action from any front! more
Aug 19
