BB Double Strength Super Gro?

[tastesosweet]

The product junkie in me could not pass this item up in the drugstore. As I am already a MTG user, I figured this stuff might not be bad since it has sulfur in it. The main ingredients are Sage, Sulfur, Coconut Oil, and Vitamin E. It smells heavenly, kind of like this product called Indian Sage my mom used to oil my scalp with when I was a kid. Has anyone ever used/heard of this super gro product?

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[isawstars]

I loved that stuff but i stopped using it... My hair dresser emailed me an article about a list of black hair products that contain hormones and ingredients that are linked to cancer. The BB products were on that list. I posted the article in this forum earlier this year... like March or something.

 

[aprilbiz]

Tell me no! That's one of my all-time favorites.

 

[isawstars]

I found the article that mentions the possible dangers of the product and other products that are found in BSS:


At least two months ago WPXI contacted me to do an interview about ingredients in hair care products used by African-Americans possibly leading to breast cancer. I was selected because I am a 15-year breast cancer survivor.

I agreed to do the interview. However at the end of the taping I didn't know anything more about the study than before the cameras started rolling.

Recently WAMO news anchor and New Pittsburgh Courier freelance writer Allegra Battle did a story on this same subject and it was a feature on the May 9, 5 p.m. KDKA news. But at the end of these stories we still did not have a list of the products.

Battle gave me the list that didn't make her feature during a recent visit I made to the WAMO studios promoting the Pittsburgh Race for the Cure. So many of my friends have seen the stories on television or read about this issue in the paper and they want to know which products to be concerned about.

However I wanted to give you more so I went to the Internet and looked for articles from the Center for Environmental Oncology and found one titled: Why Healthy People Get Cancer: Center Examines Environmental Suspects (update spring 2005).

The article stated, one of immediate research priorities of the new center is the puzzling phenomenon of breast cancer in African-Americans under the age of 40, who have nearly twice as much breast cancer as do white women.

The center will work with Silent Spring Institute, a Massachusetts based cancer institute, to identify suspect contaminants and ingredients in hair care products and other personal products regularly used by African-American young women and their mothers.

More recently, attention has turned to estrogenic compounds in hair care products used by Black women as a possible explanation for higher cancer rates in this population.

I've started to carry copies of the list in my purse but we're going to share it with you right here. The list simply says: The following is a list of products that have previously been found to contain hormones:

Placenta Shampoo, Queen Helene Placenta cream hair conditioner, Placenta revitalizing shampoo, Perm Repair with placenta, Proline Perm Repair with placenta, Hormone hair food Jajoba oil, Triple action super grow, Supreme Vita-Gro, Luster's Sur Glo Hormone, B & B Super Gro, Lekair natural Super Glo, Lekair Hormone hair treatment with Vitamin E, Isoplus Hormone hair treatment wit Quinine, Fermodyl with Placenta hair conditioner, Supreme Vita-Gro with allantoin and estrogen plus TEA-COCO, Hask Placenta Hair conditioner, Nu Skin body smoother and Nu Skin Enhancer.

The majority of these products contain placental extract, placenta, hormones or estrogen. As early as 1983 Dr. Devra Davis (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Environmental oncology, part of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute) and co-researcher Leon Bradlow advanced the theory that xenoestrogens, synthetic estrogen imitators, were a possible cause of breast cancer.

Davis also says, almost cases of breast cancer are not born, but made and the more hormones a woman is exposed to in her lifetime, the greater her risk of breast cancer.

We need to be more cautious of the products that we use on our hair and our bodies and demand that more information about our health is shared. Ladies and gentlemen beware.

Michelle Porter
Assistant to Mary Jo Dively, Vice President & General Counsel
Assistant to M. Christina Gabriel, Vice Provost & Chief Technology Off.
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Warner Hall, 6th Floor
Pittsburgh, PAÂ 15213
(412) 268-3662 - telephone
(412) 268-2330 - facsimile
[email protected] - email

 

[lamaria211]

Have we all read this?

 

[lovebug10]

I read this article a while back after I bought some supergro & threw it straight in the trash. But now I'm wondering if I should have kept it. I want to see the actual research studies that find these links. Also at what levels of these hormones does the risk of breast cancer increase. I'm sure if you have a very high concentration it may do your body harm, but what is the actual percentage/ concentration of the hormones in these products?

For instance if there's .001% hormones in the hair products and research says that concentrations of 60% estrogen causes cancer then the hair products may have an effect but its not very likely.

Also what about hormones in birth control. If this article is true then wouldn't we see a linkage between breast cancer and birth control users?

 

[lamaria211]

i feel the same way and affter seeing the very popular documentary "Fat Sick And Nearly Dead" im doubting this study more and more