Detection of cancer-causing chemicals in shampoos, bath milk

The popularity of triclosan in consumer products making them bring negative effects than the health benefits.

Review published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The content specified, triclosan is capable of causing cirrhosis, cancer in rats in the laboratory.

Cirrhosis is the prolonged inflammation leads to the formation of scar tissue in blood vessels and cells. Over time, the scar tissue has the ability to affect the functioning of the liver.

The study noted, the rat exposed to triclosan within 6 months (equivalent to 18 years exposure to triclosan in persons) liver tumor formation easier. Tumor size and dense than the mouse not exposed to triclosan.

Researchers reveal, observed during the study they found, triclosan has the ability to cause disease in humans are similar to what occurred in the mouse.

Besides, the Bureau of food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recommended triclosan has the ability to disrupt hormones and reduces muscle contraction.

Actually, throughout the past 40 years, the research was conducted by the Bureau of food and drug administration of America and several other independent works did not find evidence to prove the presence of triclosan in many antibacterial soaps, gels for hand wipes, bring more benefits than regular SOAP or clean water.

A further problem, antibacterial soaps are just product aimed at target is bacteria, not viruses. While the new virus really brings a lot of health problems such as flu, colds.

Much of the evidence also shows that children exposed to triclosan in a long time (months to years) are prone to allergies, fever. Even, it is likely to cause antibiotic resistance.

Evaluation on the effect of triclosan, head of the research, Dr. Robert Tukey comes from the University of California said: this chemical can actually cause "health risks". The more popular of triclosan makes them potentially more harm than is the benefits obtained.

Many researchers believe that one of the solutions to minimize the negative influence from triclosan was removed them in consumer products. However, could still use a small amount of triclosan in toothpaste if it is really worth.

According to the FDA, many studies found the presence of triclosan in 97% of the samples of breast milk from groups of women who are breastfeeding and 75% of the urine samples are tested. Therefore, consumers should be cautious when using the chemical triclosan-containing products such as SOAP.

You can also minimize the impact of bacteria by regularly washing hands with SOAP often, rinse the material when processing food.=