Sodium laureth sulfate. Review on Tips on Perfumes for Men

What shouldn’t I use on my hair and skin?

Stay away from products that have any of the following ingredients: Sodium lauryl or laureath sulfate, DEA, MEA, TEA, DMHM Hydantoin & urea, FD & C color pigments, fragrances/perfume, mineral oil, proplyene Glycol and butylene glycol, triclosan, petroleum, mineral oil. Any of these ingredients are harmful and damaging to your hair, internal organs and could cause mild to serious illness. Read the label of everything you put on your hair or skin, and if you see any of these ingredients in them, don’t use them.

From: https://easybraids.com/faqs.html

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Sodium laureth sulfate.

Sodium laureth sulfate is an Alkyl sulfate which is used in shampoos and bath products. These products are excellent foamers regardless of water hardness. Sodium laureth sulfate has low skin irritation properties making it suitable for mild cleansing as well as baby products.

There is some concern over the safety of sodium laureth sulfate as some sources say that it is a potential carcinogen due to the fact that it can undergo nitrosation to form cancerous nitrosamines.

At 25ºC sodium laureth sulfate is a liquid which is 28% active.

Another name for this compound is sodium polyethoxyethyldodecylsulfate, its molecular weight is 418.53.

From: https://chem.ox.ac.uk/course/ityeartwo/html2/elvive.htm

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Claim:   Sodium lauryl sulfate, a substance commonly found in shampoo and toothpaste, poses a significant cancer risk to users of those products.

Status:   False.

Origins:   Yet

another product scare in the form of an endlessly-forwarded anonymous e-mail message hit the Internet in mid-1998:

For Complete article, read https://snopes.com/toxins/shampoo.htm

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Sodium Lauryl Sulfate in Shampoos: The Real Story

By David Steinman, from Healthy Living

Talk to many health-conscious consumers today about personal care products and one of their main topics of concern is use of the allegedly dangerous shampoo ingredient, sodium lauryl sulfate. But is sodium lauryl sulfate truly dangerous or has it received a bad rap? Or does the answer lay somewhere between these two extremes?

This is not an inconsequential question, since our recent marketplace review of more than 100 leading brands of shampoos indicates that most contain this ingredient. The reason sodium lauryl sulfate is used, we believe, is because it is an inexpensive detergent and makes mixtures foam well.

All shampoos are irritating. Shampoos rank among the products most often reported to the Food and Drug Administration for association with scalp irritation, stinging eyes, and tangled, split, and fuzzy hair. Most shampoos contain synthetic detergents for washing hair. But is sodium lauryl sulfate the culprit when it comes to irritation?

Could be.

What Science Says About Sodium Lauryl Sulfate

For Complete article:

https://acneclear.com/sodium_lauryl_sulfate.html

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Rumor: Sodium Lauryl Sulfate Causes Cancer

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Please find one more article in pdf format as attached taken from https://dailybread.co.uk/north/Sodium_Laureth_Sulfate.pdf#search='properties%20L
aureth%20sodium%20lauryl%20sulfate'

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So In the End, I want to say that it may be a substance which one should avoid as the saying goes: Prevention is better than cure!