"Mom, don't buy white toilet paper in the future, there are a lot of fluorescent agents in it, which will cause cancer." Ms. Wang will go back to her hometown to live with her parents for two days a week and accompany the elderly. When I went to the bathroom, I found that my parents bought white toilet paper, so I reminded.
"Toilet paper is not all white, everyone does not use it well, then what is it used without it," Uncle Wang replied incomprehensibly.
"White toilet paper is added with fluorescent agent, and if you use it too much, it will cause cancer," Ms. Liu stressed.
Uncle Wang felt that his daughter was surprised, so he did not think that he had added another sentence, "It is all nonsense, we have all used it for so long, and our bodies are not as good as ever."
Is that white toilet paper really carcinogenic?
Before returning to this question, let's start with something interesting.
In fact, not only Uncle Wang above, many people also want to know what everyone used to wipe their butts before the invention of toilet paper? Is it difficult not to wipe it, or wash it by hand?
This seems to be too heavy to mouth, today Xiao Miao will take you to find out what the ancient people used to wipe their butts.
Let's not talk about it from afar, let's start with our own country. According to historical records, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the high-ranking and powerful people in the imperial family mostly used white cotton paper, that is, cloth mixed with cotton and paper to wipe their butts, while eunuchs and palace women with relatively low status could only use the emperor and concubines to use after cleaning.
Speaking of our own country, let's talk about our neighbor Japan, Japan is more heavy taste, with cicada wings! Soak in hot water for 3 days, and then use it directly to wipe your butt when it is softer.
The British estimate that everyone is even more unexpected, they mainly use soft salmon fillets to solve the problem of wiping butts, that is, sashimi that Japanese people often eat.
Seeing this, I can only sigh, or live in modern happiness!
In 2016, CCTV exposed several toilet paper manufacturers, among which many manufacturers would add harmful substances such as bleach and phosphors to promote sales in order to pursue whiter paper towels.
Substances such as bleach are chemicals, mainly through oxidation reactions to achieve the function of bleached articles.
Although bleach has the effect of improving food color and bacteriostatic, the use of toilet paper with bleaching agent will cause certain harm to the human body, the most direct is to stimulate our skin, through the skin into, our blood, and then the blood, lymph fluid and cell protoplasm changes, thereby inducing childhood leukemia; at the same time, it will also damage our cardiovascular system, induce cardiovascular disease, palpitations, insomnia, sinus arrhythmia and other situations; if you use toilet paper with bleach to wipe your eyes, It may also damage the cornea, leading to decreased vision.
More importantly, it also has a close relationship with cancer, a Swiss study data shows that people who use white contaminated paper, the risk of breast cancer can be increased by 7.4 times, because the bleach, fluorescent agents and other substances in white paper can affect people's reproductive, immune, metabolic functions, promote the growth of cancer cells, and eventually induce cancer.
In general, it is not white toilet paper that causes cancer, the real problem is bleach, if you frequently use toilet paper with bleach and fluorescent agents, it can indeed cause a variety of health hazards, even cancer. Therefore, we should pay attention to avoiding the use of such toilet paper.
As mentioned above, the real carcinogenic is not white toilet paper, but white toilet paper with excessive bleach, so how do we select high-quality toilet paper among the various toilet paper?
1, look at the packaging: this is the most basic way to judge, under normal circumstances, the outer packaging of qualified toilet paper will be its basic information standards, including health license number, factory site, grade standards, production date, shelf life and so on. 2, look at the color: try to avoid buying that color is too white, too gray toilet paper. In general, like pure wood pulp paper is better, the color is yellowed ivory white, the natural color white, because the fiber is relatively complete, so the texture is also relatively uniform. 3, look at the endurance strength: relatively high-quality toilet paper, because the fiber is long, good toughness, so it is not so easy to tear off, and the more inferior paper will be broken with a light pull. 4, look at the touch: the quality of toilet paper to touch the touch is naturally more delicate and soft, and it is not easy to drop powder; while the poor quality of toilet paper is the opposite, the feel is relatively poor, feel rough and hard, when wiped on the skin may also feel pain, and easy to drop powder. 5, look at the water absorption: better quality toilet paper because the proportion of raw pulp used is relatively high, so the water absorption will be better, and poor quality paper is the opposite, poor water absorption. 6, look at the results of the fire: you can also take a piece of paper experiment, with a lighter after burning to observe, the paper is white ash or black ash after burning, if it is white ash, it means that the paper quality is better.
Master the above tips for buying toilet paper, I believe you can pick out a relatively high-quality paper!
When it comes to the color of toilet paper, the most common ones are yellow and white, so which of these two kinds of toilet paper is healthier?
This is really not necessarily true, but also depends on the specific situation.
Because the main reason for the difference in color between the two tissues is the different materials, yellow toilet paper is mostly made of bamboo fiber, and there is no bleaching process; while white toilet paper is made of wood fiber, after the bleaching process.
But that doesn't mean yellow toilet paper is better and more natural. Because there are relatively many impurities in the unbleached pulp, the texture of the paper will be relatively rough, so some black-hearted merchants will add some chemicals to make it softer.
In view of the rough paper of yellow toilet paper and other reasons, it is not recommended to use it for infants and young children with more delicate skin, and it is more appropriate to choose white toilet paper with passed quality, and adults depend on the situation.
Generally speaking, as long as you choose qualified toilet paper that meets the standards, it will not pose any threat to health, so it is recommended to go to a regular place as much as possible when purchasing toilet paper, such as a large supermarket, etc., and there will generally be no problem.
Resources: [1] "The ancient ass-wiping artifact was exposed, and sashimi was best used before the invention of toilet paper". The Unsolved Mystery of the World .2021-05-13 [2] "Fire Eye Golden Eye | Tips for Selecting High-Quality Toilet Paper". Huaxia Inspection and Testing Network Assistant Number .2021-05-11 [3] Which is better, white toilet paper or yellow toilet paper? Finally got it today". New Evening News .2021-05-28
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