What products are derived from crude oil
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Crude oil is feedstock for just about everything under the sun. When crude oil is refined, its various chemical parts are separated and some become gasoline, some lubricants, some asphalt, and others the raw materials for plastics and rubber and many more things. Here are some examples of what can be obtained from petroleum (crude oil, natural gas, and/or viscous or solid forms):
Fuels - like gasoline, diesel, propane (many people use propane to heat their homes), heating oil

Heavy bottoms - like asphalt, bitumen, tar

Petrochemicals - used as a feedstock for many everyday products:

•plastic gadgets, tools, bags, toys
•candles
•clothing (polyester, nylon)
•hand lotions
•petroleum jelly
•perfume
•dishwashing liquids
•ink
•bubble gums
•car tires
•ammonia
•heart valves
•and many more
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Crude oil is refined and used to make all these products:
•Ethane and other short-chain alkanes which are used as fuel
•Diesel
•Fuel oils
•Petrol
•Jet fuel
•Kerosene
•Liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
•Natural gas
•Alkenes (olefins) which can be manufactured into plastics or other compounds
•Lubricants (produces light machine oils, motor oils, and greases, adding viscosity stabilizers as required).
•Wax, used in the packaging of frozen foods, among others.
•Sulfur or Sulfuric acid. These are a useful industrial materials. Sulfuric acid is usually prepared as the acid precursor oleum, a byproduct of sulfur removal from fuels.
•Bulk tar.
•Asphalt
•Petroleum coke, used in speciality carbon products or as solid fuel.
•Paraffin wax
•Aromatic petrochemicals to be used as precursors in other chemical production.
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10 ways to avoid gender bending chemicals
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First, let's make one thing clear: The effects of phthalate exposure have been fairly conclusively established, and that research is acknowledged by countless public-health experts and environmental-health organizations—but not by the FDA. (Naturally, the chemical and cosmetic trade organizations that sell and use these ingredients also claim phthalates are safe, but never mind them.)

Liberated minds
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Prenatal cosmetic use may determine if a child has behavior issues
02/10/2010 in Health
When a women is pregnant, the makeup she wears, the deoderant she uses and the lotions she uses may effect her baby’s behavior later down the road. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that high levels of phthalates found in a women’s blood during pregnancy directly correlate with behavioral issues in their child at ages 4-9 years.

Phthalates are non-organic chemicals used in lotions, makeup products, soaps, nail polish, perfumes and shampoos. “Phthalates are part of a group of chemicals known as endocrine disruptors, that interfere with the body’s endocrine, or hormone system.”1 Phthalates is also known as BPA when used in plastics.

Children whose mothers tested with a high level of Phthalates in their blood during pregnancy consistently reported behavioral issues in their 4-9 year olds associated with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder and ADHD.

Phthalates in moms and babies
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Phthalates are a class of endocrine disrupting chemicals used extensively in PVC plastics, cosmetics, food packaging and medical devices. The chemicals pollute the environment and are found in the urine of 95 percent of US residents.

Lead in Vitamins
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Lead, lead everywhere
Lead in cracked paint, candle wicks, lipstick, kids' toys, and vinyl lunchboxes have placed the pernicious heavy metal at the forefront of public consciousness of late. Don't blink now, though, because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has discovered another place where it's managed to rear its ugly head: over-the-counter women's and children's vitamins.

The agency's concern is not without merit, especially when kids are involved. Childhood lead poisoning continues to be a major environmental-health problem in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, resulting in nervous system and kidney damage, learning disabilities, speech and behavior problems, poor muscle coordination, decreased muscle and bone growth, and hearing damage. Fetuses are even more vulnerable, which makes the presence of lead in prenatal vitamins even more repugnant.

99 percent of vitamins tested contain lead
In the course of its investigation, the FDA examined 325 multivitamin products. Only four of them—NF Formulas Liquid Pediatric, Natrol Liquid Kids Companion Liquid, Twinlab Infant Care, and After Baby Boost 2—contained zero traces of lead.

Although none of the vitamins contained concentrations of lead that exceeded what the FDA considers "safe/tolerable exposure levels," we have to wonder if any quantity of lead is acceptable at all, especially when the source of this assessment condones irradiated spinach and bisphenol-A in plastics.

'The View' on Toxic chemicals in our makeup...... GOTCHA, it's just a suggestion
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Toxic Cosmetics and Environment - Toxic Body
The amount of toxins in our environment has reached a level where the FDA now has designated "permissible" levels of dioxin and other harmful chemicals in the environment, food and cosmetics. Today we have over 300 chemical toxins including dioxin in the tissues that were not found in any human before 1940. Make-up and body care products have been linked to allergic reactions, birth defects, and even cancer. It is a medically recognised fact that our body absorbs significant amounts of what we put on our skin. The absence of government oversight for this $35 billion industry leads to companies routinely marketing products with ingredients that are poorly studied, not studied at all, or worse, known to pose potentially serious health risks. more

HaleyBot wants a job
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World-Leading Online News-Monitoring Company Launches Inbox Robot 2.0 News Delivery

WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The news monitoring web site Inbox Robot, often referred to as the "Pandora of individual news reports," has been re-launched as a free application.
Not sure if any of you are aware that my robots used to work back in the day. HaleyBot saw the above ad and wants to rejoin the work force. Maybe with the help of Erica Kane and Greenley. (Maybe the dilemma in today's cosmetic world will help them resolve their issues.)

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Avon and toxic lead
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Unrecognized Cancer and Hormonal Risks of Avon Products
Cancer Prevention Coalition, October 9, 2009

Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Dr. Samuel Epstein, is warning women that toxic ingredients in Avon Products put users at risk of cancer and hormonal changes. For this reason, Dr. Epstein is urging the National Cancer Institute to terminate plans for a joint project with Avon until the company reformulates its products to replace all toxic ingredients with safe alternatives. A class of ingredients in Avon products, parabens, has been shown to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells in laboratory tests and parabens have been identified as possible causes of breast cancer, Dr. Epstein points out. Used as preservatives, parabens mimic the hormone estrogen, which is known to play a role in the development of breast cancers. Dr. Epstein is concerned about cancer-causing ingredients in all cosmetics and personal care products, but he is particularly concerned about Avon Products because of a newly announced collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, a U.S. government agency. In August 2009, the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and the Love/Avon Army of Women announced that they intend to collaborate. Their objective is to develop a computerized initiative to recruit and study women in order to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Epstein acknowledges that this is an "important and worthy objective." Dr. Susan Love is a well-known and leading national breast cancer surgeon. The Avon Foundation is a non-profit organization of Avon Products, a leading global beauty company. Avon is the world's largest direct seller and markets to women in over 100 countries through independent sales representatives. Relating to a prominent advertisement by Avon Products in a November 2008 issue of The New York Times, Dr. Epstein identified a wide range of toxic ingredients in their products:

Mercury in your mascara and lead in your lipstick
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Mercury in your Mascara and Lead in your Lipstick?!
09/14/2009 in Environmental, Health | 1 comment

Not too long ago it we learned that Nail Polish contains “female reproductive toxicants”. Some more beauty products in the average women’s arsenal are now up for question for containing lead and mercury.

The FDA recently tested 33 of the most popular lipsticks and found lead in 60% of them. The ranges in lead detection were between 0.01 parts per million (ppm) to 3.06ppm. Ladies should also know that most lipsticks are composed of fish scales and parabens (along with the lead) which get ingested when you lick your lips or eat with the stuff

Advertising fluoride mouthwash with SpongeBob SquarePants ad

Cosmetics Database

Letter
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September 26, 2007

Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D.
Commissioner of Food and Drugs
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

Dear Dr. von Eschenbach:

FDA regulators will attend a forum in Brussels this week in which cosmetic industry representatives and international regulators will discuss "ways to remove regulatory obstacles among the regions" and other issues related to cosmetic marketing and safety (FDA 2007a). Environmental Working Group (EWG) is writing to express deep concern that FDA officials are excluding public health, consumer, and environmental organizations from this meeting while allowing the regulated industry to participate.

While such an unbalanced discussion of consumer safety issues is always unacceptable, this exclusion is even more problematic in light of our new analyses of product safety, which reveal that products sold in the U.S. frequently violate industry safety standards and contain ingredients banned in other industrialized countries. Our findings raise fundamental concerns about closed-door industry-regulator meetings that could further weaken international cosmetic policies.


Toxic Ingredients video
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The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) classifies cosmetics and personal care products, but does not regulate them. In 1938, the FDA granted self-regulation to the Cosmetics, Toiletries and Fragrance Association (CTFA), the self-appointed industry organization.

With The exception of color additives and a few prohibited ingredients, a cosmetic manufacturer may use almost any raw material as a cosmetic ingredient and market the product without an approval from FDA" ("Prohibited Ingredients", FDA Office of Cosmetics Fact Sheet, Dec. 19, 1994)

What this means is that the industry does not have to account to anyone, not even the FDA. The direct result of industry self-regulation is that many products on the market today that we use constantly--and worse, products that we UNKNOWINGLY use on our children and even babies in the womb -- are TOXIC

Minnosota and make-up
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7:54 a.m. MT, Fri., Dec . 14, 2007
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The quest for thicker lashes and defined eyes should get safer in Minnesota on Jan. 1, when a state law banning mercury from mascara, eye liners and skin-lightening creams takes effect.

Minnesota apparently is the first state in the nation to ban intentionally added mercury in cosmetics, giving it a tougher standard than the federal government.

Retailers who knowingly sell mercury-containing cosmetics in Minnesota could face fines of as much as $700. Penalties could reach $10,000 for manufacturers who fail to disclose mercury on product labels, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

Mercury in cosmetics
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WHAT NOT TO BUY
Major gaps in public health laws allow cosmetics companies to use almost any ingredient they choose — even lead, mercury, and placenta.

Ingredients in any kind of product — from sunscreen and mascara to deodorant and baby shampoo — are sold to consumers with no restrictions and no requirement for safety testing. Check out EWG's list of ingredients and products you should avoid when making your next shopping decision.

Arm and Hammer Teeth Whitening Booster Toothpaste
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Given the incomplete information made available by companies and the government, EWG provides additional information on personal care product ingredients from the published scientific literature. The chart below indicates that research studies have found that exposure to one or more ingredients in this product -- not the product itself -- caused the indicated health effect(s) in the studies reviewed by Skin Deep researchers. Actual health risks, if any, will vary based on the level of exposure to the ingredient and individual susceptibility -- information not available in Skin Deep.

Fluoride abosorbs through the skin
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REMOVING FLUORIDE FROM WATER – HOW AND WHY
©2004 Suzin Stockton
1) this day of massive environmental pollution, most people have some level of awareness about the need to purify their drinking water. Strangely though, many folks won’t hesitate to shower in the same tap water they refuse to drink. Most are surprised to learn that waterborne chemicals, including fluorides, are readily absorbed into the body from showering or bathing.1 In fact, these chemicals are actually more dangerous when absorbed through the skin, for in this manner they enter the bloodstream more easily, bypassing the gut where they would bind with minerals from food, thus diminishing their harmful effects.2 A growing awareness about water pollution is prompting an increasing number of Americans to buy bottled water (which may be as contaminated as tap water) or invest in water filtration units. Many use activated charcoal, sediment filters, water softeners and/or ceramic filters. These will remove one or more of the following: organic chemicals, particulate matter, calcium ions and some microorganisms. None of these methods will remove fluoride. Many people see the presence of fluoride in their drinking water as beneficial, however, and therefore are not concerned with removing it. They should be.

2) At-risk Populations
While we are all at risk from the toxic effects of fluoride, some individuals are at greater risk, for they retain more of it and thus more quickly feel its adverse effects. According to toxicological profiles, those sub-sets of the population that are unusually susceptible to fluoride toxicity include the elderly, people who are deficient in calcium, magnesium and vitamin C, people who have cardiovascular and kidney problems and those with overall poor nutrition.8 Infants, developing fetuses, children during tooth-forming years, pregnant women, diabetics and people with low thyroid function are likewise especially vulnerable to the effects of fluoride. Since this list covers a very large portion of the US population, one must question the safety of water fluoridation.

Wholy Water
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In a number of small villages in Sicily, Turkey and India there is naturally occurring fluoride in the water ranging from 0.7 to 5.4 ppm. Here the villagers and their livestock are chronically ill, while neighboring villages with no fluoride have no such illnesses. Premature aging is the overall effect. Children have brown decaying teeth; young adults often have none. Young men are bent over and crippled with pain in their joints and hips. Their skin is wrinkled and they look 60 at age 30 to 40. There is premature hardening of the arteries, loss of appetite & sex drive by age 30. The rate of stillborn miscarriages by 4 months is extremely high.

Infants and Fluoride
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Fluoridated drinking water contains up to 200 times more fluoride than breast milk (1000 ppb in fluoridated tap water vs 5-10 ppb in breast milk). As a result, babies consuming formula made with fluoridated tap water are exposed to much higher levels of fluoride than a breast-fed infant. (A baby drinking fluoridated formula receives the highest dosage of fluoride among all age groups in the population (0.1-0.2+ mg/kg/day), whereas a breast-fed infant receives the lowest).

Dental fluorosis is not the only risk from early-life exposure to fluoride. A recent review in The Lancet describes fluoride as "an emerging neurotoxic substance" that may damage the developing brain. The National Research Council has identified fluoride as an "endocrine disrupter" that may impair thyroid function, while recent research from Harvard University has found a possible connection between fluoride and bone cancer.

Notes Fluorine
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by Maria Abdin

Note:

The information which follows is not sufficiently detailed to form a basis for either diagnosis or for designing a treatment regimen. It is solely intended to share measures which might possibly be of use to persons undergoing fluorine/fluoride detoxification through sauna/supportive measures.

1. Sources of fluorine/fluoride exposure include:
-- fluoridated toothpaste, and some pharmaceutical medications, some food/beverages
-- military exposure to chemical weapons
-- exposure to fluoride-containing fumigants and rodenticides, and cigarette smoke
-- industrial exposure --including aluminum smelting, glass etching, and some manufacturing processes
-- fluoridated water --including occupational exposure to sodium fluoride in water treatment, and overexposure to fluoridated water (such as soaking hot tubs, swimming, showers, drinking water, and food products using fluoridated water (such as fruit juices, infant formulas, other beverages)
2. Effects of chronic fluoride/fluorine exposure from ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption, include:
-- weight loss, chronic fatigue not alleviated by rest, general weakness, depression
-- headaches, bone, joint and muscle pain, muscle spasms
-- brittle bones and teeth, tinnitus
-- anemia, acidosis, reddish spots on skin, slight bleeding from nose lining
-- blurred vision, dizziness, poor balance, numbness and tingling of extremities
-- depression, difficulty concen-trating, loss of mental alertness, nervousness
-- excessive thirst, kidney inflammation, frequent urination
-- nausea, diarrhea, constipation, blood in stools, flatulence, abdominal pain
-- damage to internal organs, and to cellular biochemistry & thyroid functioning

According to the following article, and my interpretation the FDA is lying thru their teeth straight up, eh?

Fluoride in baby formula
132 JADA, Vol. 138 http://jada.ada.org January 2007
FOR THE DENTAL PAT I E N T . . .
Infants, formula and
fluoride
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in October 2006 announced that
it will allow bottlers to claim that fluoridated
water may reduce the risk of
caries (tooth decay). The American
Dental Association (ADA) agrees with the FDA
that this health claim is not intended for use on
bottled water marketed to infants, for whom lesser
amounts of fluoride are appropriate. The right
amount of fluoride is needed to help protect teeth
and prevent caries. Fluoride intake above optimal
amounts, however, creates a risk of developing
enamel fluorosis in teeth during their development
before they erupt through the gingivae
(gums). Most cases of enamel fluorosis result in
faint white lines or streaks on tooth enamel that
are not readily apparent to the affected person or
the casual observer.
OPTIMAL FLUORIDE LEVEL
The optimal fluoride level in drinking water is 0.7
to 1.2 parts per million, an amount that has been
proven beneficial in reducing caries. In some
areas, naturally occurring fluoride may be above
or below these levels. The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency requires notification by the
water supplier if the fluoride level exceeds 2 ppm.
People living in areas where naturally occurring
fluoride levels in drinking water exceed 2 ppm
should consider an alternative water source or
home water treatments to reduce the risk of fluorosis
in young children.
RECONSTITUTED INFANT FORMULA
The ADA offers these recommendations to reduce
fluoride intake from reconstituted infant formula.
dBreast milk is widely acknowledged as the most
complete form of nutrition for infants. The
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends
human milk for all infants (except for the few for
whom breast-feeding is determined to be harmful).
dFor infants who get most of their nutrition from
formula during their first 12 months, ready-to-feed
formula is preferred to help ensure that their fluoride
intake does not exceed the optimal amount.
dIf liquid concentrate or powdered infant formula
is the primary source of nutrition, it can be
mixed with water that is fluoride-free or contains
low levels of fluoride to reduce the risk of fluorosis.
These include water labeled as purified, demineralized,
deionized or distilled, as well as reverseosmosis
filtered water. Many stores sell these
types of drinking water for less than $1 per gallon.
Parents and caregivers should consult with
their dentist, pediatrician or family physician
regarding the most appropriate water to use in
their area to reconstitute infant formula. Ask your
pediatrician or family physician whether water
used in infant formula should be sterilized first
(sterilization, however, will not remove fluoride).
Unless advised to do so by a dentist or other
health care professional, parents should not use
fluoride toothpaste in children younger than
2 years, because they may inadvertently swallow
the toothpaste.
Children 2 years and older should use an
appropriate-sized toothbrush with a small
brushing surface and only a pea-sized amount of
fluoride toothpaste at each brushing. They should
always be supervised while brushing and taught
to spit out, rather than swallow, toothpaste.
Fluoride mouthrinses have been shown to help
prevent caries in both children and adults. Unless
the child’s dentist advises otherwise, the ADA
does not recommend the use of fluoride
mouthrinses in children younger than 6 years,
because they may be more likely to inadvertently
swallow the mouthrinse.
Fluoride supplements are not recommended for
children younger than 6 months. Children should
receive only dietary supplemental fluoride tablets
or drops as prescribed by their dentist or physician
based on the supplement schedule approved
by the ADA, the American Academy of Pediatrics
and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
(visit “www.ada.org”).
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