Aluminum Zirconium Tetrachlorohydrex Gly
This is the active ingredient found in the Axe products. A few studies conducted on animals show an effect on one’s kidney’s and renal system in small doses. Also, the mammalian cells have shown affirmative mutation results.
There is also some moderate reproduction effect on the animal subjects.
Aluminum has been considered a human neurotoxin ever since 1886. Mind you, this was before anyone ever used it as an antiperspirant aka deodorant.
Needless to say, a neurotoxin is never any good news: it causes nerve and nerve tissue damage.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
This is a very toxic ingredient indeed as it links to cancer from certain animal testing. But the biggest danger of using products of any kind which contain this ingredient is the possible contamination with nitrosamines.
They are created through the combination of nitrosating agents and amines. Hence the name. Many consider them to be some of the most powerful and dangerous carcinogens.
A title well deserved, when one sees that they have contributed to cancer in more than forty different species of animals, including us humans.
PPG-14 Butyl Ether
Popypropylene glycol is what the PPG stands for. This is made from methyl oxirane, an entirely artificial petroleum product. It has another name, propylene oxide, which many experts also consider a potential carcinogen for humans.
It is also highly flammable and they categorize it as an irritant. Butyl ethers belong to the paraben family. They are also toxic petrochemical compounds, in other words, toluene derivatives.
And toluene has already made a bad name for itself by being having known harmful effects on the human reproductive system. Parabens are no joke either, as they too connect to cancer.
PEG-8 Distearate
The Cosmetic Ingredient Review committee had issued a report in the International Journal of Toxicology. In it they list the many impurities which they found in PEG compounds.
There are also heavy metals, some of which iron, lead, nickel, cobalt, cadmium and even arsenic. And no surprise in the fact that a large number of these impurities have connections to cancer.
BHT
Several studies have shown that BHT accumulates in the body over time, having a toxic effect on one’s liver, lungs and kidneys. Not to mention some other negative impacts.
Gann’s 1984 study has shown that BHT had the ability to promote chemically-induced cancer in male lab rats, particularly bladder cancer.
Another study, this time by Thompson in 1988, researched both BHA and BHT. The result was that they both had tumor promoting properties, as well as being toxic, with BHT being more cytotoxic than BHA.