Free Recipe:
Base:
1 ounce Coconut oil (any solid oil can be used)
10 ounces Sunflower oil (any liquid oil can be used)
14 ounces Distilled water (to be sure your lotion stays free of impurities)
1 ounce Beeswax
1 teaspoon Borax
Heat the oils and beeswax to just above body temperature. In a separate bowl, heat the distilled water to just above body temperature and add the borax to the water. When the beeswax has finished melting, very slowly add the water to the oils while blending with an electric mixer on high speed. Continue blending until the mixture becomes lotion. To be sure your lotion won't separate, allow to sit for 12 to 24 hours in the mixing container. Stir. If the lotion has been mixed well, there will be no water separating from the oil. If water drops appear on top of your lotion, mix again until the mixture becomes lotion without water drops. Pour into a 24 ounce wide mouth glass jar.
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 Possible Carcinogen in Body Care Products: Mineral Oil
Cheap and easy, natural lotions are BETTER than conventional lotions!
Author: Emily Patterson
Date Created: July 6, 2009
Mineral oil or liquid petroleum is a by-product in the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other petroleum based products from crude oil. A waste product, garbage, foul with carbon-based chemicals known to increase the risk of cancer.
Wikipedia: Mineral Oil
Also known as:
Adepsine oil
Albolene
Cable oil
Baby Oil
Drakeol
Electrical Insulating Oil
Heat-treating oil
Hydraulic oil
Lignite oil
Liquid paraffin
Mineral Seal Oil
Mineral Spirits
Paraffin oil
Petroleum, liquid
Petrolatum, liquid
White oil
Mineral oil is a main ingredient in over 1,700 of the body care products available on drugstore.com. 65 of these products are specifically designed to be used on babies.
Drugstore.com search for 'mineral oil'
Drugstore.com search for 'mineral oil baby'
Exposure to mineral oil increases the risk of the following forms of cancer:
Pancreatic
Gallbladder
Lung
Melanoma
esophagus
Stomach
Kidney
as well as:
non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Leukemia
in addition to damage to the central nervous system
These were among a large number of studies in PubMed, US National Library of Medicine, showing increased cancer risk associated with exposure to mineral oil
"In addition, toxicity data on selected chemical constituents of mineral spirits (e.g., n-nonane, n-decane, n-undecane) indicate that these chemicals have similar toxicological properties to mineral spirits. Overall, the data showed that mineral spirits have a low order of acute toxicity and do not appear to produce toxicologically relevant systemic effects. Ongoing studies are evaluating the concerns associated with chronic low-level exposure and central nervous system effects.">
PMID: 18293216
"A statistically significant increased risk of developing and dying of pancreatic cancer was found but not an increase in overall cancer mortality. This was consistent with the previous report from this group. Interestingly, the cohort demonstrated a statistically significant risk of overall cancer incidence and specific increased incidence of gallbladder cancer.">
PMID: 12822136
"Our findings suggest that these aerospace workers who were highly exposed to mineral oils experienced an increased risk of developing and/or dying from cancers of the lung, melanoma, and possibly from cancers of the esophagus and stomach and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia. These results and the increases we observed for TCE and kidney cancers are consistent with findings of previous studies.">
PMID: 16167347
"Also, when JBO was applied with BP, the time taken for tumour development in mice was shortened by about 4 weeks as compared to another group painted with the same dose of BP alone. This suggests a cancer-promoting activity which needs to be investigated further.">
PMID: 160241
Mineral oil is in almost all lotions and creams on the market today. Baby oil is straight mineral oil. As a thinking person, would you agree that applying these products daily, often many times daily, is high exposure?
You can find body care products for yourself and your family that do not contain mineral oil in the Sunflower Naturals Online Store to reduce your risk of cancer from exposure to this petroleum-based toxin.
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