Lush, the beauty high street chain that prides itself on the use of natural ingredients and minimal packaging now promotes not using SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) in its solid shampoo’s! So why is sodium lauryl sulfate so dangerous? The sodium lauryl sulfate in our soaps is exactly the same as you would find in a car wash or even a garage, where it is used to degrease car engines. In the same way as it dissolves the grease on car engines, sodium lauryl sulfate also dissolves the oils on your skin, which in can cause a drying effect.  More worryingly once it has been absorbed, one of the main effects of SLS is to mimic the activity of the hormone Oestrogen and may be responsible for a variety of health problems from PMS, menopausal symptoms to dropping in male fertility and increasing female cancers such as breast cancers!  

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