For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.
For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.
Every conspiracy theory has truth to it. The truth is the chemicals they use to clean floors in industrial plants are the same that are in major shampoos.
Industrial floor cleaners and shampoos share key cleaning agents with personal care products, primarily surfactants like Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) or its ethoxylated cousins for foaming and lifting dirt, along with alkaline builders (like Sodium Hydroxide) for tough degreasing, and solvents/alcohols (like ethanol) for dissolving oils, all mixed with water and other specialty additives for different surfaces.
You could argue they are perfectly safe of course.
Yes, and it is also incredibly misleading to say that with no context. I often use the same chemical I use to clean tables and counters in my soups.
Acetic Acid 5% w/v.
Aka distilled white vinegar.
The truth is that shampoo companies are generally not using unsafe chemicals in unsafe amounts, because of the laws and legal processes that people in my country (USA) have fought so hard for over the years. There is no big conspiracy here, just normal capitalism and marketing BS.
Everyone is different though and IMO people generally do not need to shampoo as often as they do.
Actually it is not. If you understand history and the way these chemical were used in personal care you would learn some disturbing truths.
For instance, in the US the government uses an innocent until proven guilty approach whereas most of Europe uses a guilty until proven innocent to the use of chemicals when they come into contact with human beings.
This means a lot of these harsh industrial chemicals have actually not been tested safe for human use. This results in a lot of chemicals used in food and personal care products that will never be allowed in Europe.
We have some consumer safety laws from the era where companies literally put poisons in food, but today most of our protection comes from the threat of lawsuits.
It is not perfect, for instance Monsanto’s round-up was on the market for 25 years, presumably scientifically “safe” before a plaintiff was able to win a case proving they were harmed. This is why the culture-wars “litigious society” bullshit is so dangerous. The justice system is our last resort for protection.
There are problems in every system, but when people hear about problems in the USian system, for some reason they think the whole system is worthless vs. the very real protections we have, and the people who died before we got them.
I would love it if ingredients had to be proven safe before they were used. It would make us so much healthier. But like with Monsanto it is not the end-all-be-all, and we need lawsuits as well.
Everything you say is sane and accurate. The devil is always in the details. When when you dig down into these conspiracy theories you find surprising truths but also a lot of nonsense.
True that