Seth Rogen An Organic Cleaner Inventor In “My Mother’s Curse”
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 22nd, 2010 in Actors, Actresses, Environment-Eco-Green, Female Singers.
Seth Rogen is set to star alongside Barbra Streisand in My Mother’s Curse, a film about a son out to reunite his mother with an old flame.
Rogen is an inventor who’s just created an organic cleaning product he plans to show off to various marketing outlets while taking the road trip with mom.
It’s highly appropriate that the show has a mother/son/eco-friendly theme to it, given the recent reports on a woman’s risk of breast cancer after being routinely exposed to common household cleaning products.
The research conducted at Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Massachusetts found women who often used household cleaning products were 110% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those who used them less often. Those that used air fresheners were 90% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those who used them less often.
Sounds scary and makes you want to get (and stay) dirty. However, although Rogen’s character’s product may not be on the market, there are ways to reduce exposure to some of the chemicals environmental groups like the EPA says present health hazards, not to mention have adverse affects on air and water quality.
Opt for greener cleaning products like those offered by companies such as Seventh Generation or Ecover.
In addition, the Environmental Working Group has compiled a list of ingredients to be watchful of:
- 2-butoxyethanol (or ethylene glycol monobutyl ether) and other glycol ethers
- Alkylphenol ethoxylates (some common ones are: nonyl- and octylphenol ethoxylates, or non- and octoxynols)
- Dye (companies often hide chemical information behind this word; when it’s unknown, it’s safer to skip it)
- Ethanolamines (common ones to look out for are: mono-, di-, and tri-ethanolamine)
- Fragrance
- Pine or citrus oil (on smoggy or high ozone days, compounds in the oils can react with ozone in the air to form the carcinogenic chemical formaldehyde)
- Quaternary ammonium compounds (look out for these: alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride (ADBAC), benzalkonium chloride, and didecyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride)
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