DANGER: Formaldehyde...Authorized Personnel Only

A few weeks ago I accompanied Mary to the hospital.  While we were escorted to a designated area, we passed a door with an ominous sign that read…”DANGER.  Formaldehyde.  Irritant and Potential Cancer Hazard.  Authorized Personnel Only”.  You needed to punch in a combination in order to open the door.  Plus, the door automatically closed and locked.  Hard…with an echo.  I thought I was at the CDC, Bio-safety Level-4.

I had to shake my head in amazement.  The hospital recognizes formaldehyde as being a carcinogen and at the same time they require their staff to use Purell practically every 5 minutes.  What do you think is in Purell, besides alcohol?  Formaldehyde.    Remember, your skin is porous, and what you put on your skin is absorbed into your blood stream, where it circulates throughout your body, building up in your tissues and you become “toxic”.  Plus, the makers of Purell recommend you use it only once a day, to be on the safe side.  I don’t use it.  I use Dr. Bronner’s Pure Castile Soap, Peppermint. Peppermint is a natural anti-bacterial and disinfectant.

Now, some people who read my articles think I am blowing smoke up a rope.  Well, one man, anyway.  I assure you, I do not make this stuff up out of thin air.  I do my research. And you can do your research as well.  So let’s see how the EPA feels about formaldehyde.  Not good.  The EPA considers Formaldehyde to be a skin, eyes, nose and throat irritant, breathing hazard, neurotoxin and a KNOWN carcinogen.  The National Cancer Institute considers formaldehyde to be a cancer causing agent.  So the caution sign on the hospital door is a little misleading.  Formaldehyde is not a “potential” carcinogen.  It is a KNOWN carcinogen.

And where do we find formaldehyde?  Just about everywhere.  In flooring, carpets, furniture, cabinets, shampoos and skin care products, baby products such as lotions and shampoos, soaps, cosmetics, sun screens, toothpaste, potpourri, fragrances, dryer sheets, laundry detergents, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, clothes, home cleaning products, paints, and the lists goes on.  Did I mention candles and scented air fresheners?  Also, wood-smoke and fuel burning appliances, medicines, paper products and cigarette smoke, especially from E-Cigarettes.

Besides poisoning yourself with formaldehyde by rubbing it on your skin, it can enter your system by breathing it in.  It off gasses and gets into the air and travels.  Now for those of you who refuse to believe me (one man, anyway), I took this information from the EPA website.  Look it up yourself.

It may come as a surprise to some of you, manufacturers are not honest.  They do not care about you.  They care about your money.  They want it.  They are realizing there are more people like me out there who read labels.  So instead of putting formaldehyde on the product list of ingredients, they call it by other names.  DMDM Hydantoin, Diazolidinyl Urea, Methenamine, Quaternium15, sodium hydroxyl methylylycinate, 2-bromo-20nitropropane-1,3-diol, Bromopol, Formalin, Methanal, Oxyethyline, 1,3-Dioxetane, Methylaidehyde, Methylene Oxide, Formic Aldehyde, Oxomethane Formalin and Phenol Formaldehyde.

Manufacturers will tell you there is such a small amount of it in the product, what can it hurt?  But it is in practically everything.  At the end of the day, you have absorbed a lot of formaldehyde and over a period of time you are setting yourself up for a problem.  The question should not be what can it hurt?  The question should be why is it in these products if it is known to cause cancer?  Very good question.  Why do you think that is?  Think!  Hard!  Why does our government allow companies to put cancer causing chemicals in the products you use and the food you eat?  Could it be we are being poisoned?  For Profit?

Then, if this is not bad enough, at the end of your days, the undertaker will drain your blood and fill you up with formaldehyde to preserve you so you will “look good”.  And charge you.  You pay for this.  You pay for purchasing the products containing formaldehyde, you pay to go to the doctor when you get sick.  Then you pay the undertaker to give you another blast of the stuff that probably killed you in the first place.  And some people are calling ME crazy.  I don’t think so.  Because you see…..I choose to live healthy chemical free…..