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chemical in Colgate Total causes cancer and malformation

weird, pretty sure there were 0 studies showing it to be harmful to humans, and some studies showing it to be harmful to animals, but what were the conditions? Is it the same as those studies that show aspartame to be harmful, where you pretty much have to eat kgs of it per day?
 
...We'll eventually find out most chemicals gives us cancer. The damn sun, giver of life, will give you skin cancer and make you wrinkly.
 
It's also in most antibacterial hand soaps, which is why I switched to Lever 2000. But of course in labs they have to use absurd amounts to get those results.
 
I've used Toms of Maine for 20+ years. Better flavors, and they don't have overbearing sweetness. I'm also pretty good about reading labels, and don't use anti-bacterial anything, unless it's specifically for medical purposes, and that's pretty rare.
 
lxskllr said:
I've used Toms of Maine for 20+ years. Better flavors, and they don't have overbearing sweetness. I'm also pretty good about reading labels, and don't use anti-bacterial anything, unless it's specifically for medical purposes, and that's pretty rare.
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i used to use Tom's of Maine, until they got bought out by Colgate. They have a few SLS free and fluoride free toothpaste, but I lost all faith in them. sellouts. I now use Cleure, a completely flavorless toothpaste, and Desert Essence brand too.
 
SandEagle said:
triclosan = bad

http://www.businessinsider.com/triclosan-cancer-causing-ingredient-in-colgate-toothpaste-2014-8
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-Colgate-Total-toothpaste-linked-cancer.html

i know many of you dont brush your teeth, but if you do plan to start, stay away from anything that contains triclosan. i personally avoid that and fluoride.

/PSA
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darkswordsman17 said:
Pretty sure this is in more than Colgate. Wasn't this also the antibacterial agent used in a lot of liquid handsoaps?
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Its use to be. The same company that makes Colgate total removed it from their hand soaps but can't find a replacement for the toothpaste. So they are saying its not safe for 1 product but the other one its ok?

We stopped using the Colgate toothpaste and used a different soap for a while till they changed the formula. My wife still likes their soap so once the Triclosan was out she switched back.
 
Jimzz said:
Its use to be. The same company that makes Colgate total removed it from their hand soaps but can't find a replacement for the toothpaste. So they are saying its not safe for 1 product but the other one its ok?

We stopped using the Colgate toothpaste and used a different soap for a while till they changed the formula. My wife still likes their soap so once the Triclosan was out she switched back.
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Triclosan is still in a large amount of antibacterial products.
 
Strk said:
Triclosan is still in a large amount of antibacterial products.
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Palmolive soap and soft-soap it has been removed. That and the state of Minnesota has banned it. So unless companies want to make multi product lines of the same product its best to remove as P&G has done in their soaps.


What products still have it? Colgate Total was the last one I have really seen.
 
Meh, I don't use Colgate and I don't eat tubes of toothpaste for dinner anyway, so not all that worried.

KT
 
Jimzz said:
Palmolive soap and soft-soap it has been removed. That and the state of Minnesota has banned it. So unless companies want to make multi product lines of the same product its best to remove as P&G has done in their soaps.


What products still have it? Colgate Total was the last one I have really seen.
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Dial hand soaps
 
"triclosan = bad"
LOL! I bet you think vaccines are "bad" too. 😉 When did people go from claiming that it breeds superbugs to claiming that it causes cancer?!

Triclosan measurably reduces your grip strength... and stops MRSA from spreading like wildfire in gyms, hospitals, and nursing homes. I'd immerse myself if I could. When bacteria form a resistance than the antibacterial soap becomes normal soap. Whoop-de-do. We don't use it as an antibiotic just like we don't use farm animal antibiotics on humans: anything forming a resistance to triclosan would still be vulnerable to the same human antibiotics it was vulnerable to before.
 
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