Chemicals or ingredients to avoid in food or personal products.

Ok, so once I have to time to make a post I want to make more lol. So I thought I'd write a post about food today too! Ever since getting sick, I started to question everything I used and eat. I research one thing which sets me off an a whole new branch of things to research. After having cancer and research for hrs, I now diligently try to stay away from the following chemicals or ingredients that are in food and every day products which are very toxic for you and your loved ones. 

MSG

High Fructose Corn Syrup

 Artificial food coloring

GMOs

All artificial sweeteners (including aspartame,Sucralose, Acesulfame Potassium (Ace-K), Neotame, Saccharin)

Soy

Sodium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrite

Potassium Bromate

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH)

Artificial fragrances 

VOC's

Trans Fats (inludes shortening, partically hydrogenated, or hydrogenated)

Preservatives (including TBHG, Polysorbates, BHT/BHA, Sodium Benzoate, Sulfites)

Parabens (including Ethyl, Methyl, Butyl or Propyl)

Phthalates (including Fragrance, DEHP, DHP, DBP 5, Dibutyl Phthalate)

Coal tar ( including Dyes: Blue 1, Green 3, Yellow 5 & 6, Red 33)

Triclosan ( including Chloro, Phenol, Irgasan)

3-(4-methylbenzylidene)-camphor (4-MBC), octyl-methoxycinnamate (OMC), octyl-dimethyl-PABA (OD-PABA), bexophenome-3 (Bp-3), homosalate (HMS)

Petroleum byproducts (including Polyethylene glycol (PEG, PPG, Cocoate), propylene glycol, polyoxyethylene, polyethoxyethylene, polyethoxyethylene mineral oil

Petroleum derivates (including Petrolatum)

Lead and mercury (including Lead acetate, thimerosal, mercurius solubilis, mercurius sublimates, mercurius corrosives, mercuric chloride

Isobutene

Placenta (unless its your own), placental enzymes, placental extract

Hydroquinone

Nanoparticles (including Nano zinc oxide)

formaldehyde (including Quaternium-15, 2-bromo-2nitropropane-1,3-diol, imidazolidinyl urea, diazolidinyl urea, Formalin, Methanal, Methyl aldehyde, Methylene oxide, Morbicid acid, Oxymethylene

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) & Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)

This is just a tip of the iceberg of unsafe chemicals or ingredients that have been allowed to be included in the foods and products that are sold every day. Because not everyone thinks to question what is safe because they think its safe if its been sold, these ingredients are still allowed. Now I'm not posting about this to condemn others or to upset anyone, I am posting about this because it is a passion of mine to remove all harmful things I can to make my family healthier and safer so they don't have to go through what I had to with cancer. 

Knowing that all these products or food has so much bad things in it, pushes me to find ways to go things the old-fashion way. I have been researching how to live old-fashionably in a modern world to help me keep everything simple and much healthier for me and my family. I also wish that we could live a completely sustainable life but we cant get that far yet moving all the time. I will be posting some recipes in the following weeks for making homemade personal products you can all try that I have found. Along with some healthier alternatives you can buy instead of the chemical- laden ones.