Fabric softeners contain toxic chemicals

Fabric softeners contain toxic chemicals:

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Fabric softener ads often portray an image of comfort, freshness and sweetness. Yet most fabric softeners contain a grim list of known toxins which can enter your body through the skin and by inhalation, causing a wide range of health problems, particularly for young children.

Some of the harmful ingredients commonly found in liquid or sheet fabric softeners include:

• Chloroform: This substance was used as an anesthesia in the 1800s up through the early 1900s when its potential for causing fatal cardiac arrhythmia was discovered. A carcinogenic neurotoxin, it is on the EPA's Hazardous Waste list. Inhaling its vapors may cause loss of consciousness, nausea, headache, vomiting, and/or dizziness, drowsiness. It may aggravate disorders of the heart, kidneys or liver. Its effects worsen when subjected to heat.

A-Terpineol: Causes Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders

Benzyl Alcohol: This upper respiratory tract irritant can cause central nervous system

Benzyl Acetate: This substances has been linked to pancreatic cancer

Ethanol: Another fabric softener ingredient which is on the EPA's Hazardous Waste list and linked to CNS disorders.

Pentane: A chemical known to be harmful if inhaled.

Ethyl Acetate: This substance, which is on the EPA's Hazardous Waste list

Camphor: Another substance on the EPA's Hazardous Waste list.

Linalool: A narcotic known to cause respiratory problems and CNS disorders

Phthalates: Used in scented products to help the scent last longer, phthlates have been linked to breast cancer and reproductive system problems.

Limonene: This known carcinogen can cause irritation to eyes and skin.