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- Laundry Detergent Primer
- When
most Americans take a drink from the tap, they don’t realize that they are
drinking the following toxic combination of water with sodium chlorine, sodium
fluoride (If they have city water) and sodium chloride (If they have a water
softener). If
you add chlorine and fabric softener to the wash and anti-static products in the
dryer, you could have 12-15 different sodium combinations and residue left in
your clothes.
I
believe these sodium chemical combinations have not been tested. Could these
compounds acting as a group be carcinogenic?
Tide
powdered laundry detergent chemical ingredients include:
-
Cleaning
agents (anionic surfactants, protein stain remover-enzyme)
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Water
softeners (aluminosilicates, sodium carbonate)
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Processing
aids (sodium sulfate)
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Washer
protection agents (sodium silicates)
-
Fabric
brightening agent (this has no chemical name)
-
Soil
suspending agent (this has no chemical name)
-
Suds
control agent (this has no chemical name)
-
Perfume
(this has no chemical name).
The three hazardous ingredients listed in section 2 of the Material Safety Data
Sheets as defined by OSHA, 29 CFR 1910.1200 are:
- Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash) - 15 to 40 percent
- Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate acid - 7 to 13 percent
- Subtilisin (Protealytic enzyme) - 0.1 to 1 percent
Liquid
detergents use a fatty acid ethyl alcohol molecule to do the cleaning. These are
okay to use.
There
are four classes of detergent: anionic, cationic, non-ionic, and amphoteric.
Anionic detergent can be placed into the following main groupings:
- Alkyl
Aryl Benzene Sulphonates. This group represents more then 40 percent of all detergents.
-
Dodecyl benzene (DDB) is sulphonated to Dodecyl Benzene Sulfonic Acid (DDBSA).
This in turn is used as a detergent base, where it is
neutralized with a base such as sodium hydroxide, monoethanolamine,
triethanolamine, potassium hydroxide, etc.
Look
at the 21 Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). You will see three to five toxic chemicals
that are reported to OSHA for ALL detergents.
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