I Tested 20 Personal Care Products and Most of Them Are Toxic

Inside of this store are loads of personal care products that are secretly toxic, and we slather our bodies in these lotions and creams every day. Whether it's shampoo, deodorant, or toothpaste, they are loaded with ingredients that are endocrine hormone disruptors and skin irritants. I'm going to show you exactly what you want to avoid and what you should buy instead. Let's begin in the deodorant aisle here. My friends, look at this. It's a huge wall of deodorant. How do you know what to get? Well, I want to show you number one public offender not to get. How do you think all of these scents come on here? This is a Fiji scent. I don't know what that means. Look at that fragrance. Fragrance and perfume are public enemy number one, and it's in almost all personal care. They won't tell you what's in the fragrance. It's a proprietary blend, but that is in test show. There's hundreds, if not thousands of ingredients, and many of them are hormone disrupting, endocrine disrupting, skin irritants, and it's very, very hard to avoid them, but I'll show you how to do that in one second. Let's say you pick up something like this. This is Men's Care. See this ingredient to the top here? Propylene glycol. That's what makes it smooth when you put it on your pits, but that's another known skin irritant. I don't know about you, but I have very sensitive skin. Even if you go to a premium looking brand like this one right here, the active ingredient up top is aluminum based. You don't want aluminum in there, especially in sensitive areas in your pits that absorb into your skin. What do you want? Well, let me show you one more thing because I spy a couple of good ones here. Never, ever, ever buy antiperspirant spray. When you push this pink top here, it plumes out into the air. What propels it out into the air? Butane, which is a fossil fuel going under your pits. We sprayed this at home for that shot. It reeked of this rose petal for hours. I had to open up all the windows. What do you do? Well, luckily in this video, I'm going to show you swaps that are easily found at all grocery stores. Nothing online that cost a million dollars or whatever. Check this out. Dr. Squash here. It doesn't have any of those bad ingredients. The ingredient list is very small, but wait a second. It has a fragrance in there. Check what it says. It's naturally derived from essential oils. The good ones will always have essential oils, not synthetic fragrances. I see another good one. Crystal right here. Check it out. Very few ingredients here. See where it says fragrance on the bottom there? Star Botanical Fragrance made of real essential oils. I want to give you some other swaps just in case you're not coming to CVS. We can get Humble is good. Schmitz is another good brand. Let's turn our attention over to toothpaste. Once again, so many toothpaste, so many bad ones. A couple of good ones here in a second. When you get a toothpaste like this and you squeeze it out like I did on my toothbrush at home, how do you think it gets blue? Oh my gosh. With blue, number one. Artificial colors are derived from petroleum and fossil fuels. We don't want those in our foods. We don't want those in stuff we're putting in our mouth. You can pick up probably any toothpaste right here. I'm not even going to say I researched ahead of time. What's that ingredient that makes it sudsy? Boom. Sodium lauryl sulfate. That's the scrubbing agent that makes it very foamy in your mouth. The problem is it does too good of a job, my friends. It actually can scrub away some of the natural microbiome in your mouth and it's too abrasive. The good ones will not have that. When people who have sensitive teeth or want enamel protection, the way they're doing it is with fluoride. We don't want fluoridated toothpaste or mouthwash. Added fluoride, especially in water, is really bad. I know it's a controversial thing, but why would you get fluoride when you can easily swap it out with something I'll show you in a minute? What's the good? Well, right here is a nice one. Hello. Look at the ingredients. There's no scrubbing agent in here. There's no nasty coloring at all. On my counter at home right now, I use Dr. Bronner's, a very clean toothpaste. I highly recommend the cinnamon flavor. It has a really nice bubblegum flavor from when I was a kid also. You might think something like Tom's of Maine is clean. It's actually not. Remember what we said earlier about that scrubbing agent? Boom, it's right there. It's the sodium lauryl sulfate in the toothpaste here. Too abrasive for your oral microbiome. I'm seeing other good ones here, too, guys. Look at this. This is fluoride-free native. Not a bad option also. Oh, I said a couple swaps for the sensitive enameling one. Look on my counter at home. The toothpaste I use at night is called Rise Well. Instead of fluoride, they use a mineral called hydroxyapatite, which does the same thing that fluoride would do. And I've never heard of this brand before. It is $17 to be fair. But look at this. This is Coco Shine 3% nanohydroxyapatite, and none of the nasty scrubbing agents or coloring in there at all. A couple other brands you can find elsewhere would Dr. Browner's, yes. You can get David brand that has a hydroxyapatite one also. Most important things to avoid the bad toxic ingredients, which I just recapped here, and I'll put them down below. Let's move on to the aisle over. We talk about shampoos and conditioner, which reminds me of Billy Madison. Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. No, conditioner is better. I go on second. I make it silky and smooth. It's very, very tough with stuff like shampoo. I got to do my squats this morning because look at this. This is rose hips, which sounds fantastic. Oh, it's really sticky. My hands are going to be covered in rose hips now. My friends, there's a couple issues here. Number one, see how this beautiful pink in there? It ain't from rose petals, my friends. This is a combination of a red 33, yellow 5, blue 1. Remember that toothpaste we talked about earlier? Artificial colors derived from petroleum we don't want. See the second ingredient? That's sodium lauryl sulfate. It's the same scrubbing agent we just saw in the toothpaste. Oh, my gosh. It's good enough for your mouth. It's good enough for your scalp. It does such a thorough job that it can actually strip your head and your scalp of essential oils. I don't know about you. I have a sensitive scalp. This can really, really dry it out. You don't want that. Not one, but two. We got three bad things. We got the perfume and fragrance in there as this literally slides through my hand. Remember, the perfume and the fragrance is the biggest lie here. We don't want all of those disrupting ingredients in there. What do we want? Well, let's go to the end here. It's not perfect, and it's not Bobby approved, but I just want to show you how something like a native here, I don't know what the smell of cashmere and rain is, but the only bad ingredient here is the fragrance, and it specifically calls out cashmere and rain scent. We don't want that either. Look at my shower right now, by the way. The shampoo and conditioner I use is from Acure. You can find those at most grocery stores, and they're very, very high quality. They don't have any of the bad ingredients. Has anyone seen this before? It's California Naturals. I've actually never heard of it. The ingredient list is really solid, but the last ingredient says aroma. I don't know what that means, so I'm going to do some research, and then I'll follow up in the comments down below, because this is a new one that has mostly good ingredients here. The other CVS I was at the other day had Dr. Squatch, which is a good one also. Alafia makes really good shampoo and conditioner, and so does Honest, Jessica Alba's company. You can find all those at most places that aren't going to have the bad ingredients. Think about it. You start to use all these ingredients that could be hormone disrupting and slathering into your mouth and your scalp every day. The problems can head up. Quick break from the video to show you seed probiotic. You can't get it at CVS, but you can get it down below using my link. We'll get you 25% off your first month supply of the best probiotic on the market. I've been taking this for six years. So has Desi. So has Rose, because the truth is most probiotics, they die in your tummy acids, and they never make it to your colon, and the bacteria they use can be quite inferior. Look what this says here. It's 24 strains of custom bacteria that work. It works so well. This was voted the number one digestive probiotic on the market, because it works for gut health, poop regularity, skin health, immune health, and more. If you're in the market or want to try a new probiotic, once again, my link gets you 25% off your first month supply and free shipping. Check out Seed. It is the GOAT. Let's turn our attentions to body wash. Another comedian, who was it, made the joke about body wash. Just got to wash the body. I actually bought this the other day to show you this closeup coming up in three, two, one. Swagger was on my hand by Old Spice. My friends, that color that was squishing into my hand and everything, it was a natural. If we look at the ingredients here, it's blue number one, yellow number five. I joke you not, that smell of swagger would not come off my hand until that night. No matter how much I washed it, the swagger was lingering, and the ladies were loving it. Not. How do they get the smell of swagger in there? Oh, my gosh. It's with fragrance, right? They use that sodium lauryl sulfate scrubbing agent. I want you to think about something. After all the lotions, potions, and goos that we're putting on our body every day and in our mouth, knowing that they're hormone disrupting skin irritants, I wonder why so many of us have infertility issues. Our skin is all haywire. Our scalps are flaky. We're bombarding our system with these toxins that our body cannot naturally detoxify. Let's look around here. I'm looking for Bobby approved body wash, even though I'm a bar soap guy. Vote now below, body wash or bar soap. Native's not Bobby approved, but they're not going to have the nasty coloring. Once again, the only ingredient is that fragrance, which I still want you to avoid. That being said, look what's right here. We got Dr. Squatch. If you want to smell like a wood barrel bourbon, which sounds very manly, I'd rather be smelling like bourbon barrels than swagger any day. Look, no scrubbing agents, no coloring, and once again, the fragrance is naturally derived. I actually have this one at home right now, the Dr. Squatch Bar. I prefer bar soap. I just feel like the liquid, you waste half of it down the drain and it's really hard to get on you properly. Bar soap is where it's at. I don't know. You let me know what you think. I like this one a lot. I also like Dr. Browner's bar soap, but my favorite one here is probably my bottom shelf, Castile soap. This stuff is natural soap that is free of all of the toxins and colorants. Look at the ingredients. Clean as can be. I bought a bottle of this for my father, John, and his caretaker was using this to wash his hair because he's 95, and she loved it and it made his hair smell really good naturally. The other CVS I was at had Dr. Browner's bar soap, which is really nice too. If you are on Team Liquid Soap, Alaffia is really nice and Honest is really good too. If you can avoid the bad ones, we can help our hormone system and our skin detoxify naturally. I'm happy to report that many of the face cleansers and lotions that are on the shelf next to me are actually clean and Bobby approved. Back in the day, I used to use the big bottle of Cetaphil just like this. I bought it at Costco. My friends, it is literally just a handful of ingredients and it's free of the scrubbing agents and fragrances and it's gentle, which is perfect because my skin is very gentle also. If you prefer something like CeraVe, go for the green and white bottle. Once again, free of all the nasties you don't want to put on your face. Let's go for the Trifecta. We got two, how about three? Not sure why the CVS is putting it in this protective case. Maybe it's for theft purposes, but La Roche-Posay, I think that's how you say it. They're a purifying foaming cleanser. Great ingredients, but pro tip, we like saving money. CVS knocked them off and it's only $14 compared to $20. It's their purifying facial cleanser, same exact ingredients. I love how they call out right here, sulfate, fragrance, paraben, phthalate free. Yes, please. Doesn't mean that all CeraVe and all Cetaphil are Bobby approved because if I pick up the CeraVe daily moisturizing lotion here, methylparaben and propylparaben, a double dose of paraben. Parabens are known hormone disrupting ingredients so much so that I dramatically take off my glasses like a doctor. In Europe, parabens are banned, my friends. Hormone disrupting ingredients insulting our body every single day. We don't want it. It's a little posh, but look in my shower at home, I have a men's only facial cleanser from Jack Henry. I like that a lot, but these are great too. They're completely non-toxic, Bobby approved and you're saving money. Let's talk shaving cream, which I'm due for my weekly shave. I only shave once a week. Thank God I don't have to do it every day. Now, this is something that most people would put on their face. It's a foaming shaving cream here. The problem is, yes, it looks really nice when it squeezes on my hand and everything. It only has a few ingredients here, which is nice, but those few ingredients are pretty dastardly. The last ingredient is perfume and fragrance, which I smelled when I sprayed it. It comes out with that propane, just like the deodorant. It's got the harsh scrubbing agent, sodium lauryl sulfate in there, very abrasive for your face. This ingredient is called TEA. It's a very controversial ingredient. We don't want that at all. You could do better. You might grabbing something like sensitive shave gel is good. Yes, we avoid most of the stuff we just said, but there's that nasty fragrance at the end there and BHT, which is that banned ingredient in Europe that we allow here. It's not dastardly. They allow it here, even though European regulators have said it's banned over there. Something's broken there, my friend. What do we do? Luckily, look at this. Bulldog shave gel. Look at my shower right now at home. This is the same one I use, and the ingredients are absolutely fantastic. Wait a second. There's a fragrance there, Bobby. You said fragrances are bad. They specifically say it's a blend of natural essential oils. We like that a lot. We also like the Dr. Squatch. Can't get away from that bourbon barrel. You're going to smell like a bourbon barrel all day long, but that bourbon barrel is made from real essential oils and none of the nasty BS scrubbing agents. Another good shaving cream would be Dr. Bronner's also. There's great swaps for everything, and there's a lot of bad stuff too, but as long as you make these swaps, you'll give your body a chance to detox from all the hormone-disrupting ingredients and all the skin irritants and all the allergens, and next thing you know, you could be feeling a lot better. If you want to see personal care videos, you let me know. I'm thinking about going to Sephora and doing a makeup one, but you leave a comment and let me know. Bye.