Call me crazy, but I get concerned when I see how fad crazed US culture is when it comes to just about anything but especially diet and health.  I was therefore concerned and only half joking when I mentioned on FB last year I wonder what is doing to turn out to be deadly about the hand sanitizer I see everywhere on every desk on earth?  Well my friends that day has come...

Turns out a commonly added antibacterial and antifungal agent to numerous consumer products, including soaps, detergents, toys, and surgical cleaning treatments, triclosan is an endocrine disrupting chemical – capable of causing adverse changes in hormones in those exposed.    Korean researchers conducted tests on human breast cancer cells and in special immunodeficient mice with tissue grafts, with the researchers finding that triclosan interfered with genes involved with breast cancer cell growth, resulting in more cancer cells. Mice that were exposed to triclosan had larger and denser breast cancer tumors than the control group.  The study authors warn that: “these results suggest that [triclosan] may promote breast cancer progression, via an [estrogen receptor]-mediated signaling cascade.”

I think it is also important to point out that often research findings that point to breast cancer are usually also relevant to prostate cancer in men though that correlation was not studied here. Stay tuned!

If you are concerned about this substance in your products visit the environmental working group website for information on product safety. http://www.ewg.org

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 Ki-Hoan Nam, Hyoung-Chin Kim, Kyung-Chul Choi.  “Progression of Breast Cancer Cells Was Enhanced by Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Triclosan and Octylphenol, via an Estrogen Receptor-Dependent Signaling Pathway in Cellular and Mouse Xenograft Models.”  Chem. Res. Toxicol., 2014, 27 (5), pp 834–842.