Friday, January 27, 2012

Paper and dioxins

http://www.secret-life.org/paper/paper_environment.php
Excerpt:
What is harmful about the chlorine compounds used in bleaching pulp for papermaking? Chlorine compounds are rated among the most hazardous industrial chemicals in large volume use, affecting both human health and the environment.[5] By themselves, they have been classified as suspected toxicants to the respiratory and reproductive systems as well as to developmental processes. Their use in the pulp bleaching process also results in the creation of harmful byproducts called “organochlorines,” which include dioxins and dioxin-like compounds.[6] These substances are known to cause cancer and are suspected of causing developmental, reproductive, and immune system damage.

Although industry has reduced its organochlorine discharges because of strengthened government standards, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) figures indicate that the pulp and paper industry ranks in the top three or four among U.S. manufacturing industries in the release of dioxin and dioxin-like compounds.[7] If the industry completely replaced chlorine compounds with safer oxygen-based bleaching, then there would be no organochlorine byproducts, and wastewater from the bleaching process could be almost completely recovered and reused.

http://powertochange.com/life/moisturizeskin/
Excerpt:
Use cotton balls or pads to cleanse your face. Tissue has wood fibers that can damage skin.  (What about our butts and vaginas?)  ...cal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_toilet_etiquette
Excerpt:

Islamic toilet etiquette

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Mayo Clinic DMSO
Excerpt:
Interstitial cystitis is the only human use for dimethyl sulfoxide that is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Claims that dimethyl sulfoxide is effective for treating various types of arthritis, ulcers in scleroderma, muscle sprains and strains, bruises, infections of the skin, burns, wounds, and mental conditions have not been proven.

Although other preparations of dimethyl sulfoxide are available for industrial and veterinary (animal) use, they must not be used by humans, because of their unknown purity. Impurities in these preparations may cause serious unwanted effects in humans. Even if dimethyl sulfoxide is applied to the skin, it is absorbed into the body through the skin and mucous membranes.

What did women do?
Excerpt:
"When they menstruated, they left a trail of blood behind them."
What did European and American women use for menstruation in the 19th century and before? (With an addition about Muslim law.)
Many people ask me what women did in earlier times about menstruation. It's usually impossible to say for sure for most cultures, although women have used tampons, pads ("rags" and commercial ones), sponges, grass and other absorbent materials probably for thousands of years.
In European cultures, the history of women, especially their everyday affairs, is inadequate; men ruled the roost and women were "good" for a limited number of things, few worth recording - at least, so thought the men.
Dr. Monica Green, of the Duke University history department, warned me of this lack of information right before I opened the actual museum, in 1994. I had written her after seeing her quoted in a New York Times article about ancient contraception.

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