Facial Tissue: Your Choices

Facial Tissue
And
Your Environmentally Sound Choices

Whether you have Allergies, “Tear over Sad Movies”, experienced the sinister seasonal Cold, or simply have company:

A Home should always
have Facial Tissue available for it’s occupants and guests!

For The Bachelors out there-
Toilet Paper is never an acceptable solution, unless you are camping! No one, I repeat, no one… other than YOU, wishes to place an item against his or her face when you’ve touched it on the toilet!

Toilet Paper usually comes in rolls or tiny squares, for your private toiletry uses.

Facial tissue is usually created softer or stronger, and specifically for facial use. Soon I will post an article discussing options for “Toiletry needs” which of course will define Natural Choices for toilet paper!

Firstly:
Facial Tissue or Handkerchief

In the U.S. the facial tissue market has been dominated by the Kleenex brand disposable handkerchief, and so dubbed “Kleenex”. Originally, paper products were not used. Instead, cloth squares or handkerchiefs were carried and eventually marketed in numerous colors, shapes, and patterns. After children sharing facial towels to blow noses were found to spread germs in large cities, a temporary solution to the germ distribution came into creation. Disposable, single use cloths for those who are ill, were to hit the U.S. markets and eventually most parts of the world.

1924: The Kleenex disposable facial tissue is released
1926: Kleenex is marketed to Canada

Natural Choices in disposable facial tissue:

Recycled Paper/Wood Product
Cotton Tissue Paper



Modern Day Recycled Paper/Non-deforestation Tissues:

U.K.
Tradecraft

http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/
100% Recycled, Can be purchased in bulk: 24 boxes, Average 150 2-ply tissues, Sheet size 200mm x 210mm, made in U.K.

U.S./Canada
Marcel Paper Products
http://www.marcalpaper.com/ Full line of Recycled Content Tissue Products

U.S., Canada, U.K.
Green Forest (started in 1990, WI), which was eventually sold to a “Mainstream Paper line”, and then sold a few years after to Planet Inc. (B.C. Canada)
www.greenforest-products.com

SEVENTH GENERATION: based in U.S. (available world-wide)
www.seventhgeneration.com
100% Recycled Paper Products including Facial Tissue & Toilet Paper, Fem Products, Cleaning Products, Baby Needs (including natural disposable diapers) and recycled plastic Trash/Garbage bags.

Countries and Suppliers:

• U.K. and E.U. (Suffolk based company) Green Face
  (carrying SeventhGen in U.K./E.U.):
  http://www.greenface.co.uk/
• Asia (including China, Japan, Korea, P.I.) and Mexico Hyoung
  (carrying SeventhGen., based in California, U.S.):
  http://www.hyoung.us/
• Australia/N.Z. Good Natured
  (featuring SeventhGen., Jason, Health Valley)
  http://www.goodnatured.ashop.com.au/
• U.S. (mostly): Vita Cost
  (Featuring: Alba, Avalon, Dr Bronner’s, Earth Science, Kiss My Face, Life-Flo, Lily Of The Desert (including great Aloe Vera juice), Nature’s Gate, Nature’s Plus, New Chapter, Seventh Generation, Tom’s, Zia)
  http://www.vitacost.com/
  
  

Non-Paper Tissue product information to follow:

including disposable COTTON Facial and Bath Tissue.

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Danger: Aluminum

Aluminum:

Food, Cosmetics, and Medication

Since you may skim “Articles” you read, I feel compelled to mention prior to fully discussing Deodorants and Antiperspirants what Aluminum has and will affect your life, someone’s body, and the environment! While The FOOD And DRUG ADMIN. (F.D.A.) in America wants to tell you this and that drug are Safe… until Deaths and Lawsuits force them to say otherwise, many scholars and scientists have known about the dangers of the readily available and inexpensive metal “ALUMINUM”!

So, you either do not care or really haven’t heard the warnings! Did you know that U.S. and European peoples (Men and Women) once used LEAD as a foundation/concealer, cosmetic face powder, and on Hair Pieces and Wigs! LEAD is of course now banned in piping/plumbing, and cosmetics! Well, if there are known medical concerns, why would anyone place Aluminum “On or In” your body?

Dr Chris Exley, who has awards on “The Bioinorganic Chemistry of Aluminium and Silicon” and neuro-degenerative diseases (Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s) is quoted as saying :

"Aluminium is known to cause cancer in animal models. We need to make sure aluminium in antiperspirants isn't contributing to breast cancer".

And stated that manufacturers simply chose to use Aluminum even though there are non-aluminium-based antiperspirants.

“Aluminum is a metalloestrogen, it is genotoxic, is bound by DNA and has been shown to be carcinogenic. The confirmed presence of aluminum in breast tissue biopsies highlights its potential as a possible factor in the aetiology of breast cancer”, said Dr. Exley. Additionally he adds, “Myth and legend tells us aluminium is safe but reality shows us not that it isn't safe but that we don't know. Not knowing is not a reason for assuming safety."

Studies reveal a direct association between the level of aluminum in municipal drinking water and the peril of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia. And, the older the person is, the more the accumulation of Aluminum in your blood (serum level). It is unclear whether we humans are more susceptible to Aluminum as we age or it is simply our storage tank has filled to capacity.

Dr Melvyn R. Werbach suggests Alzheimer’s alone should be reason enough to purposefully avoid Aluminum products.

Regardless of what your knowledge of Aluminum was, let’s in short, write the list in simple form to note your source of daily, unobserved Aluminum.

Aluminum:

• Shelved as your grocery store Antiperspirants ,
• Holding your carbonated beverage (Soda, Colas),
• Camped in Outdoor Cooking Gear,
• Heating your Barbeque'd Picnic foods as Foil,
• On your lips as you swig your Ale,
• Swallowed whole in your Meds (all cute and fuzzy being termed “buffered/buffered Asprins"),
• Unseen in utensils,
• Slipped inside coffee pots,
• Biting mad in old Metal/Silver Fillings,
• Caked-in to most Baking Powder”!

Whereas it is totally unnecessary to ADD Aluminum to Baking Powder, most typical companies add it. Health Food/Natural Company lines of Baking Powder are much more expensive, so what’s a person to do? On a positive note, you have a clearly affordable choice over Aluminum laced Baking Powder: BAKING SODA. When using BAKING SODA... decrease/omit additional salt.

Baking Soda is my Secret Love, next to Vinegar for cleaning!




Aluminum is absorbed through the skin (your largest organ) and your intestines, in addition to your lungs!



Let’s use the readily available options over Aluminum and just “play on the safe side”, if you do not care to study fact, logic, and reason. There are natural and readily available alternatives!

*Shaving underarm hair and washing the underarm area a few times a day

will greatly reduce bacteria

and therefore body odor*

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