Coat and skin care

Keep your dog clean without the toxic ingredients in most body care products

Most shampoos and conditioners -- whether for people or for pets -- contain a variety of questionable chemicals. They make the products foam and froth, help them glide on the fur and skin, and keep the ingredients from separating. Sounds good, right? Until, that is, you learn what else these chemicals can do...

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The watchdog organization Environmental Working Group, which analyzes cosmetic and personal care products people use every day, says this:

"Cosmetic ingredients do not sit tight of the surface of the skin — they are designed to penetrate, and they do. Scientists have found many common cosmetic ingredients in human tissues, including industrial plasticizers called phthalates in urine, preservatives called parabens in breast tumor tissue, and persistent fragrance components like musk xylene in human fat."*

These chemicals don't just hang out quietly in the body once they arrive, either. They can cause cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption and other health problems. They even have been found to cause harm to wildlife, because we rinse them down the drain and into rivers and streams.

And if we've got chemicals in our bodies and wild animals have chemicals in their bodies, you can bet that our dogs have absorbed them, too.

The personal care industries -- both human and canine -- are largely unregulated. So the onus is on us to learn which ingredients are safe to use on our dogs' bodies... as well as which are not.

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*Source: Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database