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CTFA Response Statement: Bogus Internet Report on Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)
October 13, 2000
RSPT 00-32
There is a bogus report on the Internet purporting to be from the Journal of the American College of Toxicology (JACT). It is completely misleading and inaccurate. The original report from the Journal of the American College of Toxicology has been altered to create an inaccurate document. The erroneous report had been published at www.wwns.com/sanders/gh/lauryl.htm (no longer available).
The genuine report on SLS can be found in printed form in the JACT, Vol. 2 Number 7, 1983. The website of the American College of Toxicology, publishers of the JACT, is www.actox.org. It does NOT contain full texts of its reports.
This is an example of how information found on the Internet must be checked before using.
A dire health warning circulating by email since 1998 claims that sodium laureth sulfate, a synthetic chemical found in brand-name shampoos and other personal care products, causes cancer.
As is typical of such warnings, the message is unsigned and cites no references to support its claims.
As also commonly happens with chain letters, this one has picked up false ';signatures'; after the fact. Such is usually the result of someone with an authoritative-sounding title forwarding the message with their .sig file attached, which is left intact by later forwarders and eventually becomes a permanent part of the text.
As near as I can determine, the name ';Michelle Hailey'; first began appearing on a version of this message in September 1998, approximately two months after the original (unsigned) version was first sighted. The ';signed'; version quickly surpassed the original in popularity, but Hailey denied authoring the email in an Oct. 20, 1998 article in the Daily Tennessean.
';This is not a chain letter,'; the message declares, but in fact it is one. As you shall see, its purpose is not to inform, but to frighten:
Subject: FW: SHAMPOO ALERT!!! MUST READ!!!
Importance: High
Check the ingredients listed on your shampoo bottle, and see if they have this substance by the name of Sodium Laureth Sulfate or simply SLS.
This substance is found in most shampoo, the manufactures use it because it produces a lot of foam and it is cheap. BUT the fact is that SLS is used to scrub garage floors, and it is very strong.
It is also proven that it can cause cancer in the long run, and this is no joke. Well, I went home and check my shampoo (Vidal Sasoon), it hasn't got it, but others such as Vo5, Palmolive etc..they've got this substance, so I've called up to one of the company (u must think I had nothing better to do, no, I am just concerned about our health) well, I told them their product contains a substance that will cause people to have cancer, and u know what they said, they said ';Yeah.we knew about it but there is nothing we can do about it coz we need that substance to produce foam, oh, by the way the Colgate toothpaste also contains the same substance to produce the bubbles';. Oh my God, I've been using the Colgate since when I was born, what the world is that, are we going to die very soon. They said they are going to send me some info.
Research have shown that in the 1980s, the chance of getting cancer is 1 out of 8000 and now in the 1990s, the chances of getting cancer is 1 out of 3 which is very serious. So I hope that you will take this seriousness and pass on this to all the people you know, and hopefully, we can stop ';giving'; ourselves the cancer virus.
This is serious, after you have read this, pass it on to as many people as possible, this is not a chain letter, but it concerns our health.
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