What's SLS

What's SLS and SLES and Why you want to avoid products that contain it:

SLS -- Sodium Lauryl Sulphate and SLES - Sodium Laureth Sulphate are common ingredients found in shampoos, toothpaste, hand soaps, cleansers, dish soaps, laundry detergents and degreasers. They are cheap surfacants and foaming agents that are added to products that we expect to foam, such as hand soaps, shampoos, toothpastes and dish detergents. They break down grease and oils while they denature protein. In concentrations as low as .5% about 1/60th of the concentration of most shampoos and hand soaps, irritation and denaturing of protein can occur.

The AJT report states that "Other studies have indicated that Sodium Lauryl Sulfate enters and maintains residual levels in the heart, the liver, the lungs and the brain from skin contact. This poses the question of it being a serious potential health threat to its use in shampoos, cleansers, and tooth pastes."

Eye damage has occurred when young animals have been exposed to skin contact with SLS, yet SLS is a common ingredient in baby shampoos, hand soaps, and toothpaste.

Possible detrimental health effects include:
Skin and Eye irritant
Hormone Imbalance due to synthetic estrogens that form from use of SLS and SLES.
Eye irritations and eye deformities in Children from skin contact with SLS and SLES
Protein denaturing --
Potential to cause cancer due to dioxin formation and its ability to break down proteins.

How can you avoid products that contain SLS?

Joybilee Farm Goat's Milk Soaps are SLS Free.
Joybilee Farm Shampoo Bars are SLS free.

All Joybilee Farm natural body care products are SLS free.

See our blog for more ideas on avoiding SLS and SLES in your cleaning regime. Protect your family's health.

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