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Why do you color your products? Isn’t less – more? 4.
What if I don’t like something I purchase? 5.
Why can’t I get these products in stores? 6.
I have a lime and calcium build-up on my tub. How can I remove it? 7.
Why are these products good for my septic system? 8.
Why are these products good for me if I have allergies?
9.
I have heard a lot of controversy about sodium lauryl, and sodium lauryl
sulphate. Could you please discuss this issue.
10.
What about propylene glycol and ethylene glycol? 11.
Is Magnesium Aluminum Silicate Dangerous? I’ve heard that
magnesium can lead to Alzheimer’s Disease. 12.
How do septic systems work? 13. Why should cottagers use CAERAN products? |
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F.A.Q.'s Opinions are often not founded on sound scientific research.
Much of the information is the honest opinion of the author but does not
mean that someone else would strongly disagree. Here is how we
approach the choice of the ingredients we use:
2. I thought that by purchasing phosphate
free detergent, I would be doing the environment a favor. For years, we have known that dumping large amounts of
phosphate in our waterways would lead to pollution and that is correct.
The problem lies in the information that you don’t have. What
ingredients are put in the place of phosphates? In most cases it is
nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA). Both NTA and phosphates lead to
eutrophication. Simply put, algae just love these ingredients.
This leads to a huge overpopulation of this plant. As they die, they
use up all the oxygen in the water. A body of water without oxygen Why is NTA worse than phosphates? It does one more
alarming thing. It mobilizes heavy metals. Sitting on the
lakebeds of our waterways are metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium etc.
and that is where we want them to stay. In the presence of NTA, they
are lifted and held in suspension. The amoeba swims by and swallows
the lead, then the fish eats the amoeba, and then a bird eats the plant etc
and at the top of the food chain is us! Every heavy metal ingested
along the line stays in that animal and plant and we end up having it for
dinner. The ingredients in our cleaning products have no history of
any use – linear alcohol ethoxylate – has been shown to biodegrade in 3
days! 3. Why do you colour
your products? Isn’t less – more? You are right, of course, except for two reasons. We
are creatures who like colour and it avoids mixing up products that look
alike if it were not for the colour-coding. We use FDC colouring only.
Choosing food grade colours ensures the highest level of safety. 4. What if I don’t
like something I purchase? No
problem! We believe in what we make. If for any reason you are
not happy, we will refund your money 100%! 5. Why can’t I get
these products in stores? You won’t see these products in stores for a couple of
reasons. We believe that education is an important part of the
environmental choice movement, so our products are sold through knowledgeable
CAERAN Consultants, who can provide not only product, but ingredient
information and product suggestions. In a retail store, you are on your own
to try to sift through the marketing hype and sea of 'green' claims. You may
see CAERAN products in a few small independent stores. This is because we
have made an individual agreement with this store and their markups are only
minimal. Just like many other products sold today, CAERAN is a network of
sales staff with an online store, which offers a 100% guarantee on all the
products we sell.
Up
until now the only products that you could use for this problem were caustic
and polluting. But CAERAN has developed a new product that not only safely removes lime and calcium from tub and
toilets to your class bake ware to your dishwasher. It is
biodegradable and safe enough to use with bare hands! Read about Wonder
Scrub organic salt cleaner. 7. Why are these
products good for my septic system If
you wouldn’t drink it, don’t pour it down the drain! There
are approximately one million septic systems in Ontario, Canada alone.
Septic systems are designed to treat household wastewater in areas not
treated by sewage treatment plants. During a normal year, the average
person produces about 3.5 pounds of phosphorus and 9.9 pounds of nitrogen.
Theoretically, if the discharges from your home or cottage are non
threatening to the environment (non-toxic) then this waste could be used as
fertilizer. In most homes, however, the chemicals we use render this
waste as non-useful and potentially dangerous to our environment. Septic
systems that are not well maintained can result in public health and
environmental hazards. They are costly to repair and usually could
have been prevented. Chemicals
disturb the delicate balance of microorganisms and bacteria that exist in
your septic system. 8. Why are these products good for me if I
have allergies? CAERAN
uses only the purest form of the ingredients used in its products.
This along with the fact that we list all ingredients on each product helps
you determine whether or not you can use the product based on any known
allergies that you have. We also take great care during the
manufacturing of our products to ensure there is NO cross-contamination.
This means 2 things for you. Our personal care product line is manufactured
in a different location from our cleaning products. As a result the
ingredients cannot be cross contaminated. Also, all tubs used to
manufacture any product are thoroughly washed before a new batch is made.
All tubs are used to manufacture the same product and therefore there is no
way that ingredients from laundry soap could get into a tub manufacturing
stain remover and vice versa. This means that you can be 100% assured
that no trace ingredients can be found in the product you purchase. If it
isn’t on the ingredient label, then it isn’t in the product. It’s as
simple as that. 9. I have heard a lot of controversy about
sodium lauryl sulphate, and sodium laureth sulphate. Could you please
discuss this issue. These ingredient are found in some of our shampoos as well
as many other products on the market today including toothpaste, mouthwash
and other body products. It is the most common surfactant and sudsing
agent used today. With all products, there are always those who try to exploit
their own views for their own gain. We firmly believe that we can best
help ourselves and our fellow humankind by giving you good and credible
sources for your own research. How about the American Cancer Society
as a reference? If you really want to ask an expert, and aren’t afraid of
the answer, do the following: -
Search out the American Cancer Society on the internet at www.cancer.org -
In the "search", type in Sodium Lauryl -
You'll get several links which will help you understand these ingredients
and the bad press they have - Read the “Debunking the Myth” article. Read all of it, as it also discusses the misuse of the internet as a source of information. The American Cancer Society is a fairly reliable source of information. -
Here's a direct link which will be quicker, but the site offers a lot of
other great information too. www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Debunking_the_Myth.asp -
It is also interesting to read that the source of this
misuse is e-mail chain letters. Need you know more? 10. What about
propylene glycol and ethylene glycol? This
is just one more example of a consumer reading something they recognized
(glycol) and then banding all glycols together. Propylene glycol is
the most common ingredient next to water in cosmetics. It helps other
ingredients permeate the skin. If, for instance you have added vitamin
E to a preparation, you want it to permeate the skin where it will do its
job. Glycols literally mean glycerine plus alcohol. You may
remember that glycerine attracts moisture to it and is therefore a wonderful
moisturizing ingredient. All glycols are not the same (just like
DEA’s) but they all have this same humectant property. Ethylene
glycol is often confused with propylene glycol. It does have the
ability to absorb twice its weight in water. It is used as a humectant
(preserves moisture) but since it has such a very low freezing temperature,
is also used in antifreeze. It is toxic if swallowed but has not been
shown to cause any adverse problems when on the skin. Therefore, if
you spill antifreeze on your hands, your body will not react adversely
unless you put them in your mouth! We do not use ethylene
glycol in any of our products. Here is a link to a reliable technical source for the
comparison of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol. 11. Is Magnesium Aluminum Silicate
Dangerous? I’ve heard that magnesium can lead to Alzheimer’s
Disease. Firstly,
the idea of aluminum causing Alzheimer’s Disease was born from the
discovery that Alzheimer patient’s brains when autopsied showed a much
higher presence of aluminum than those who did not have the disease.
The initial reaction was “ aluminum causes Alzheimer’s”. Current
medical knowledge does not bear this out. Aluminum is present in all our
bodies. Indeed, it is an essential mineral (in micro-doses) for
health. It is in our water and all of us have it in our bodies.
The difference is in what our bodies do with it. With Alzheimer’s
Disease, it is not excreted out and the surplus is stored in the brain.
Why does this happen? Probably it is genetic just like some people are
predisposed through genetics to some types of cancer. With
Alzheimer’s, there is s definite family link otherwise; we would have an
epidemic in the general population. Recent
information on Alzheimer’s Disease shows that it is caused by a depletion
in central nervous system reserves of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine not
by a virus or aluminum. They are also deficient in the enzyme that catalyzes
its production (choline acetyltransferase). Back
to the word aluminum. If you have made your own pickling spice, the
word alum would be familiar. It is also an ingredient put in our water
supplies to make it safe for drinking. Alum is also known as potash
alum, aluminum ammonium and potassium sulphate. You will see this word
coupled with thousands of others like, aluminum hydrate, aluminum acetate,
aluminum chloride, aluminum lactate, etc. etc. etc. Are
they the same? No! They are as different as if you were looking at
oranges and apples. They have some common parts but many more
differences. What
about the ingredient CAERAN uses – Magnesium Aluminum Silicate? This
ingredient is found in a variety of items including table salt, vanilla
powder and antacids. Magnesium
aluminum silicate (Veegum) is a hard, porous, granular mineral used in the
making of antibiotics. It is often used as an exipient when forming
tablets. It is in CAERAN's Avocado Face Cream. We use it for its
astringent properties since it leaves the skin feeling refreshed. 12. How do septic systems work? Unfortunately,
this is not a pretty topic to discuss, but if you care about a healthy
septic system and environment, then please read on. For those of us
that are on one of these systems, you cannot believe how much a healthy
system can mean. If
you know about septic systems, then you know that the reason that they work
is that micro-organisms present in our environment, “digest” the matter
in the septic tanks. As simple as that sounds, it is these natural
little “critters” eating the stuff that we put down the tank and
producing heat as a bi-product. And what is it that we put down the
tank? Without being clinical, it should be stuff that we eat, drink,
or put down our sink in the preparation of our meals. Table scraps
should go to the composter. As
all of these little critters eat the waste, a small amount of heat is
produced, and their population grows. If no other waste is introduced
into the tank, then the population of these micro-organisms would grow until
there was no more food to sustain them. They would eventually die off
and settle to the bottom as a thin layer of carbon and nitrogen based
matter. This is actually what a sludge pond is. The result would
be clean water that is suitable to be re-introduced into the environment. Our
problem is that we keep putting harmful chemicals such as phosphates,
nitrates and enzymes into the mix from our toilets and sinks, which kill off
these micro-organisms. These chemicals eventually work their way
directly into the environment, and cause great and long-term damage. CAERAN
products do not contain these harmful ingredients and all of the ingredients
bio-degrade to their base chemical compositions within three days. The
result is a clean effluent from the septic into the environment with no
harmful chemicals being released. 13. Why should cottagers use CAERAN
products? As
well as the information about septic systems above, cottagers are also in
close proximity to lakes, rivers and oceans. This closeness means that
potentially dangerous chemicals are so much closer (and faster) to
introduction into the water. We all need to be careful about all of
the environment, but direct introduction into the water gives us no buffer,
or chance to clean up a contamination, or problem. We don’t want any
problems anywhere, but there is no second chance with our waterways.
Remember, we use them for drinking, cleaning, watering of our farms,
fishing, transportation, as well as their beauty.
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