Study Finds Cancer-Causing Chemical in Nearly 100 Shampoos and Soaps

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) revealed independent testing on Tuesday finding a cancer-causing chemical in 98 shampoos, soaps and other personal care products sold by major national retailers. The chemical, cocamide diethanolamine (cocamide DEA), a chemically-modified form of coconut oil used as a thickener or foaming agent in many products, was listed by California as a known carcinogen last year.
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Products tested with high levels of cocamide DEA include shampoos made by Colgate Palmolive, Colomer, Paul Mitchell and many others. In addition, products marketed for children and a product falsely labeled as organic were found with the chemical, in violation of California law.
CEH filed a California lawsuit Tuesday against four companies that sell products containing cocamide DEA, and the nonprofit has sent legal notices to more than 100 other companies that produce and/or sell cocamide DEA-tainted products that their products violate state law.
“Most people believe that products sold in major stores are tested for safety, but consumers need to know that they could be doused with a cancer-causing chemical every time they shower or shampoo,” said Michael Green, executive director of CEH. “We expect companies to take swift action to end this unnecessary risk to our children’s and families’ health.”
In addition to many brand name shampoos and personal care products (see the full list, below), the CEH testing found cocamide DEA in store-brand products purchased at Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Pharmaca and Kohl’s. A store brand children’s bubble bath from Kmart and a children’s shampoo/conditioner from Babies R Us were also found with cocamide DEA. Falsely labeled organic products from Organic by Africa’s Best also tested for high levels of the cancer-causing chemical (CEH previously won a legal settlement with this company requiring it to end its use of phony organic labels).
CEH has purchased the shampoos and other products containing cocamide DEA at Bay Area, CA, locations of major retailers and from online retailers since June, and commissioned an independent lab to determine the total content of the chemical in the products. In many cases, products contain more than 10,000 ppm cocamide DEA, and one shampoo tested at more than 200,000 ppm (20 percent) cocamide DEA. California listed cocamide DEA in June 2012 as a chemical known to cause cancer based on the assessment by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which evaluated skin exposure tests on animals.
PRODUCT | BRAND NAME | COMPANY | RETAILER |
Classic clean shampoo (for all hair types) | Prell | Ultimark Products | Walgreens |
Medicated Conditioning Shampoo | MG217 | Lake Consumer Products | Rite Aid |
Daily Shampoo | American Crew Classic | American Crew | Kmart |
Olive Oil Shampoo | Organics by Africa's Best | House of Cheatham | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Caprice (Acti-Ceramidas Shampoo) | Palmolive | Colgate-Palmolive Co. | FoodMaxx |
Mane 'n Tail Shampoo | Straight Arrow | Straight Arrow Products | FoodMaxx |
Climate Control Defrizzing Shampoo | Ouidad | Ouidad Products | Sephora |
TUI (moisturizing sulfate-free shampoo) | Carols Daughter | Carols Daughter Products | Sephora |
Brilliance Shampoo | Rusk | Rusk | Kmart |
Kid's Bubble Bath (Bubble Gum Scent) | Little Ones/Kmart | Kmart | Kmart |
Clasic Herbal Essence Shampoo (all hair types) | Vanart | Made by Estilo Y Vanidad, Distributed by Midway Importing | Kmart |
Therapeutic Anti-Dandruff Shampoo | TopCare | Topco Associates, LLC | Lucky |
Cleanse Hydrating Shampoo | BIOSILK | Farouk Systems | Lucky |
Maximum Strength Medicated Dandruff Shampoo | Equate | Walmart | Walmart |
Awapuhi Ginger Shampoo | Organix | Vogue International | Walgreens |
"Ricitos de Oro" Chamomile Baby Shampoo | Grisi | unknown | Walgreens |
Cabellino Shampoo Chile Con Romero | Grandall | Grandall Dist. Co | Kmart |
Dandruff Shampoo Selenium Sulfide | Image Essentials | Kmart | Kmart |
Nutress Hair Protein Pack Treatment Shampoo | nutresshair | Gabel’s Cosmetics, Inc. | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Treatment Curly Hair Moisturizing Shampoo Keratin and Cupuacu Butter | nuNAAT | nuNAAT | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Luxury Care 3 Plus Frizz Control Shampoo | Luxury Care | Inspired Beauty Brands, Inc. | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Anti Breakage Neutralizing Shampoo Gel | Mega Growth | Strength Of Nature | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Tea Tree Special Shampoo | Paul Mitchell | John Paul Mitchell Systems | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Plant Extracts & Moroccan Argan oil Dry, Itchy Scalp Shampoo Controls Dandruff | At One With Nature | BioCare Lab | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Gentle Cleansing & Conditioning Shampoo Aromatic Natural Essences pH balanced | Calm Cleanse | Johnson Products Co. | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Hair Polisher Shampoo with "Sparkle Lites" | Fantasia | Fantasia Industries | Glamour Beauty Supply |
African Essence Neutralizing Shampoo Plus Proteins and Conditioners | African Essence | Universal Beauty Products | Glamour Beauty Supply |
VIA Natural Style Moisturizing Shampoo | VIA | Universal Beauty Products | Glamour Beauty Supply |
Fair Trade Honey Shampoo | Lush | Lush | Lush |
Sunflower & Coconut Detangling Conditioning Shampoo | Crème Of Nature | Colomer USA | Safeway |
Medicated Shampoo Slednium Sulfide Dandruff Shampoo | up&up | Target | Target |
Salon Shampoo (for Extra-Dry Hair) | Parnevu | Advantage Research Laboratories | Lynas Beauty Depot |
Shea Butter Shampoo | Sofn'freen'pretty | M&M Products Company | Lynas Beauty Depot |
Conditioning Shampoo | Luster's Pink Brand | Luster Products, Inc. | Lynas Beauty Depot |
Coconut Oil Formula Conditioning Shampoo | Palmer's | E.T. Browne Drug Co. | Lynas Beauty Depot |
Neutralizing Shampoo (With DL Panthenol) | Vitale | AFAM Concept | Lynas Beauty Depot |
Extra Moisturizing Hand Wash | Dermasil/Rise International Group LLC | Rise International Group | 99 Cent Only Stores |
Moisturizing Shampoo with Panthenol (Placenta & Vitamin E) | La Bella | Newhall Laboratories, Inc. | 99 Cent Only Stores |
Despicable Me Hand Wash (tickled pink rose bonbon) | Delon Laboratories | Delon Laboratories | 99 Cent Only Stores |
Tingling Gro Shampoo with Flaking Control | Doo Gro | Nature's Protein | Sally Beauty Company |
KeraCare Anti-Dandruff Moisturizing Shampoo | KeraCare | Avlon Industries, Inc. | Macy's |
Dandruff Moisturizing Shampoo | Folicure | Alberto Culver USA | Sally Beauty Company |
Mixed Berry Anti-Bacterial Foaming Hand Soap | Simple Pleasures | Tri-Coastal Design | Kohl's |
Vanilla Rose Bubble Bath | Simple Pleasures | Paula Scaletta Licensed to Tri-Coastal Design | Kohl's |
berry burst shower gel | scentsations by bodysource | Made Especially for Kohl's Department Store | Kohl's |
Lemon Handwash Gift Set | Brompton and Langley | Upper Canada Soap | Sears |
French Lavender Hand and Body Wash Gift Set | Amelie's Garden | Upper Canada Soap | Sears |
Moroccanoil Extra Volume Shampoo | Moroccanoil | Moroccanoil | Blooming Beauty |
Julius Caesar Redreshing Citrus Scent Concentrated Shower Gel | Zirch Warrior Collection | TPR Holdings LLC | Marshalls |
I love Vanilla & Ice Cream Bubble Bath and Shower Gel | I love… | I love cosmetics limited | Ross |
Coconut Lime Handsoap | Pure Passion | Biolab International Inc. | Ross |
Lalaloopsy Cotton Candy Bubble Bath | Lalaloopsy | Added Extras | Ross |
Super Minty Soapy Suds Body wash + Bubbling Bath | Bliss | Bliss | Ross |
Olive & Shea Mositurizing Shower Wash Vanilla Spice | Tree Hut | Naterra International | Ross |
Organic Cleanse Deep Cleansing Shampoo with Oatmeal Protein | Design Essentials | McBride Research Laboratories | JC Penny |
Moisturizing Shampoo for all hair types | Body Time | Body Time | Body Time |
Lemon Kitchen Hand Soap | Trader Joe's | Trader Joe's | Trader Joe's |
All Natural moisturizing Shower Gel Yuzu | ShiKai | ShiKai Products | Andronico's |
2 in1 Shampoo and Conditioner | Toys R Us | Toys R Us | Babies 'R' Us |
Body Wash ylang ylang & ginger | Pharmaca | Pharmaca | Pharmaca |
avocado oil moisturizing shower gel | Australian Organics | Kent Cosmetics | TJ Maxx |
Lemon Balm White Musk Hand Wash | D&H Australia | Dickens & Hawthorne Australia | TJ Maxx |
Eucalyptus Aloe Hand Soap | CST | CST | TJ Maxx |
Honey B Crème Handwash | Scottish Fine Soaps | Scottish Fine Soaps Company | TJ Maxx |
Enriched wtith Argan oil Restorative Shampoo | Beauty Products Mgoador | Chic Cosmetic Ind. | TJ Maxx |
White Nectarine & Pear Cleansing Hand Wash | Boutique | Grace Cole Co. | TJ Maxx |
Lavender Conditioning Handwash | Brown & Harris England | HotHouse Partnerships LTD | TJ Maxx |
English Rose Moisturizing Hand Wash | A & S | Asquith & Somerset | TJ Maxx |
Best Face Forward Daily Foaming Cleanser Passionfruit + Green Tea | Formula 10.0.6 | Aspire Brands | Ulta |
Triple Action Bath, Shower, & Hair Wash Revitalizing Rosemary Mint | c. Booth simple. Natural. Trusted. | Freeman Beauty Labs/ pH Beauty Labs | Ulta |
Advanced Volume Shampoo with Expansion Technology | Nick Chavez | Perfect Plus | Ulta |
Bubble Bath Calm One with lemon balm | Calm All | The Soap & Glory Cosmetics | Sephora |
Lemon Basil Shea Butter Hand Soap | Michel Design Works | Michel Design Works | Bristol Farms |
Philip B. Peppermint & Avocado Volumizing and Clarifying Shampoo | Phillip B. | Phillip B Inc. | Bloomingdale's |
Lemon Verbena Hand Wash Gel | Accessory Zone | Accessory Zone | Sears |
Mango Body Wash | Boots | The Boots Company | Target |
Citrus Blush Shower Gel | Champneys | Boots Retail | Target |
White Tea and Ginger Neutralizing Shampoo | Ampro/Pro Styl/ Neutra Foam | Ampro Industries | Lucky |
Lychee Flower Hand And Body Wash | Mor | Mor | Nordstrom Rack |
Zinc Shampoo | DHS | Person & Covey Inc. | hairenvy.com |
Bubble Bath Sweet Water | RRYSpa | RRYSpa | burlington coat factory |
Skinny Girl Shower Gel Margarita | Skinny Girl | Lotta Luv | burlington coat factory |
Peppermint Bubble Bath | Elegant Home Design | Elegant Home Design | burlington coat factory |
Apothecary Lemon Verbana Bath and Shower Gel | Apothecary | International Design Associates | burlington coat factory |
French Lavender Cleansing Hand Wash | Baylis & Harding England | Baylis & Harding PLC | burlington coat factory |
American Crew Classic Daily Shampoo | American Crew | American Crew | Saks Fifth Avenue |
Herb Hand Soap | Daiso | Daiso Industries | Daiso |
Hair Plump Volumizing Shampoo | Big & Bold | Fisk Industries | Beauty Palace |
Blondes Lemon flower Shampoo | ARTEC | ARTec Systems Group | Beauty Palace |
Rejuvi Shower Cream | Rejuvi | Rejuvi Laboratory Inc. | Dermstore.com |
The Revitalizer Body Wash (Cucumber + Grapefruit) | Portico | Portico Home + Spa | Dermstore.com |
Colour Protecting Caviar Shampoo | Kelly Van Gogh | Kelly Van Gogh LLC | Dermstore.com |
Walnut Body Scrub | Banzai Living Inc | Banzai Living Inc | Ichiban Kan |
Clear Lemon & Mint Body Soap | Aroma Resort | PMAI | Ichiban Kan |
Bath/Shower Gelee with Green Tea and Aloe | Dr. Michelle Copeland | Dr. Michelle Copeland Skin Care | Dermstore.com |
Lavender Shower Gel with cucumber, arnica, and aloe vera | elizabeth W san francisco | E Wightnan & Co | Dermstore.com |
Caring Hand Wash Fig & Pink Cedar | Nougat London | Nougat London | Tuesday Morning |
Hydrating Shampoo | Moroccanoil | Moroccanoil | Regis Salon |
‘Existential Threat to Our Survival’: See the 19 Australian Ecosystems Already Collapsing
By Dana M Bergstrom, Euan Ritchie, Lesley Hughes and Michael Depledge
In 1992, 1,700 scientists warned that human beings and the natural world were "on a collision course." Seventeen years later, scientists described planetary boundaries within which humans and other life could have a "safe space to operate." These are environmental thresholds, such as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and changes in land use.
The Good and Bad News
<p><span>Ecosystems consist of living and non-living components, and their interactions. They work like a super-complex engine: when some components are removed or stop working, knock-on consequences can lead to system failure.</span></p><p>Our study is based on measured data and observations, not modeling or predictions for the future. Encouragingly, not all ecosystems we examined have collapsed across their entire range. We still have, for instance, some intact reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, especially in deeper waters. And northern Australia has some of the most intact and least-modified stretches of savanna woodlands on Earth.</p><p><span>Still, collapses are happening, including in regions critical for growing food. This includes the </span><a href="https://www.mdba.gov.au/importance-murray-darling-basin/where-basin" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Murray-Darling Basin</a><span>, which covers around 14% of Australia's landmass. Its rivers and other freshwater systems support more than </span><a href="https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/latestproducts/94F2007584736094CA2574A50014B1B6?opendocument" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">30% of Australia's food</a><span> production.</span></p><p><span></span><span>The effects of floods, fires, heatwaves and storms do not stop at farm gates; they're felt equally in agricultural areas and natural ecosystems. We shouldn't forget how towns ran out of </span><a href="https://www.mdba.gov.au/issues-murray-darling-basin/drought#effects" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">drinking water</a><span> during the recent drought.</span></p><p><span></span><span>Drinking water is also at risk when ecosystems collapse in our water catchments. In Victoria, for example, the degradation of giant </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/logging-must-stop-in-melbournes-biggest-water-supply-catchment-106922" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mountain Ash forests</a><span> greatly reduces the amount of water flowing through the Thompson catchment, threatening nearly five million people's drinking water in Melbourne.</span></p><p>This is a dire <em data-redactor-tag="em">wake-up</em> call — not just a <em data-redactor-tag="em">warning</em>. Put bluntly, current changes across the continent, and their potential outcomes, pose an existential threat to our survival, and other life we share environments with.</p><p><span>In investigating patterns of collapse, we found most ecosystems experience multiple, concurrent pressures from both global climate change and regional human impacts (such as land clearing). Pressures are often </span><a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2664.13427" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">additive and extreme</a><span>.</span></p><p>Take the last 11 years in Western Australia as an example.</p><p>In the summer of 2010 and 2011, a <a href="https://theconversation.com/marine-heatwaves-are-getting-hotter-lasting-longer-and-doing-more-damage-95637" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">heatwave</a> spanning more than 300,000 square kilometers ravaged both marine and land ecosystems. The extreme heat devastated forests and woodlands, kelp forests, seagrass meadows and coral reefs. This catastrophe was followed by two cyclones.</p><p>A record-breaking, marine heatwave in late 2019 dealt a further blow. And another marine heatwave is predicted for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/24/wa-coastline-facing-marine-heatwave-in-early-2021-csiro-predicts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this April</a>.</p>What to Do About It?
<p><span>Our brains trust comprises 38 experts from 21 universities, CSIRO and the federal Department of Agriculture Water and Environment. Beyond quantifying and reporting more doom and gloom, we asked the question: what can be done?</span></p><p>We devised a simple but tractable scheme called the 3As:</p><ul><li>Awareness of what is important</li><li>Anticipation of what is coming down the line</li><li>Action to stop the pressures or deal with impacts.</li></ul><p>In our paper, we identify positive actions to help protect or restore ecosystems. Many are already happening. In some cases, ecosystems might be better left to recover by themselves, such as coral after a cyclone.</p><p>In other cases, active human intervention will be required – for example, placing artificial nesting boxes for Carnaby's black cockatoos in areas where old trees have been <a href="https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/factsheet-carnabys-black-cockatoo-calyptorhynchus-latirostris" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">removed</a>.</p><p><span>"Future-ready" actions are also vital. This includes reinstating </span><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/a-burning-question-fire/12395700" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cultural burning practices</a><span>, which have </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/australia-you-have-unfinished-business-its-time-to-let-our-fire-people-care-for-this-land-135196" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">multiple values and benefits for Aboriginal communities</a><span> and can help minimize the risk and strength of bushfires.</span></p><p>It might also include replanting banks along the Murray River with species better suited to <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/my-garden-path---matt-hansen/12322978" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warmer conditions</a>.</p><p>Some actions may be small and localized, but have substantial positive benefits.</p><p>For example, billions of migrating Bogong moths, the main summer food for critically endangered mountain pygmy possums, have not arrived in their typical numbers in Australian alpine regions in recent years. This was further exacerbated by the <a href="https://theconversation.com/six-million-hectares-of-threatened-species-habitat-up-in-smoke-129438" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2019-20</a> fires. Brilliantly, <a href="https://www.zoo.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zoos Victoria</a> anticipated this pressure and developed supplementary food — <a href="https://theconversation.com/looks-like-an-anzac-biscuit-tastes-like-a-protein-bar-bogong-bikkies-help-mountain-pygmy-possums-after-fire-131045" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bogong bikkies</a>.</p><p><span>Other more challenging, global or large-scale actions must address the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iICpI9H0GkU&t=34s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">root cause of environmental threats</a><span>, such as </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0504-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">human population growth and per-capita consumption</a><span> of environmental resources.</span><br></p><p>We must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero, remove or suppress invasive species such as <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mam.12080" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">feral cats</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-buffel-kerfuffle-how-one-species-quietly-destroys-native-wildlife-and-cultural-sites-in-arid-australia-149456" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">buffel grass</a>, and stop widespread <a href="https://theconversation.com/to-reduce-fire-risk-and-meet-climate-targets-over-300-scientists-call-for-stronger-land-clearing-laws-113172" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">land clearing</a> and other forms of habitat destruction.</p>Our Lives Depend On It
<p>The multiple ecosystem collapses we have documented in Australia are a harbinger for <a href="https://www.iucn.org/news/protected-areas/202102/natures-future-our-future-world-speaks" target="_blank">environments globally</a>.</p><p>The simplicity of the 3As is to show people <em>can</em> do something positive, either at the local level of a landcare group, or at the level of government departments and conservation agencies.</p><p>Our lives and those of our <a href="https://theconversation.com/children-are-our-future-and-the-planets-heres-how-you-can-teach-them-to-take-care-of-it-113759" target="_blank">children</a>, as well as our <a href="https://theconversation.com/taking-care-of-business-the-private-sector-is-waking-up-to-natures-value-153786" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">economies</a>, societies and <a href="https://theconversation.com/to-address-the-ecological-crisis-aboriginal-peoples-must-be-restored-as-custodians-of-country-108594" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cultures</a>, depend on it.</p><p>We simply cannot afford any further delay.</p><p><em><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/dana-m-bergstrom-1008495" target="_blank" style="">Dana M Bergstrom</a> is a principal research scientist at the University of Wollongong. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/euan-ritchie-735" target="_blank" style="">Euan Ritchie</a> is a professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences at Deakin University. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/lesley-hughes-5823" target="_blank">Lesley Hughes</a> is a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/michael-depledge-114659" target="_blank">Michael Depledge</a> is a professor and chair, Environment and Human Health, at the University of Exeter. </em></p><p><em>Disclosure statements: Dana Bergstrom works for the Australian Antarctic Division and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Wollongong. Her research including fieldwork on Macquarie Island and in Antarctica was supported by the Australian Antarctic Division.</em></p><p><em>Euan Ritchie receives funding from the Australian Research Council, The Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, Australian Geographic, Parks Victoria, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC. Euan Ritchie is a Director (Media Working Group) of the Ecological Society of Australia, and a member of the Australian Mammal Society.</em></p><p><em>Lesley Hughes receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Councillor with the Climate Council of Australia, a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and a Director of WWF-Australia.</em></p><p><em>Michael Depledge does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</em></p><p><em>Reposted with permission from <a href="https://theconversation.com/existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing-154077" target="_blank" style="">The Conversation</a>. </em></p>- Coral Reef Tipping Point: 'Near-Annual' Bleaching May Occur ... ›
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