THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE CHALLENGE: Here is added science insight into the Naturacal products... The manufacturer says that the Department of Defense (Sandia Labs) via DOE has tried to reverse engineer the Naturacal Blessings Soap and Harmony Water because of its ability to destroy various microbes and toxins, including cobra venom. They had some success, but even their product (detailed below) is toxic if taken internally.    The quotation below is an excerpt from the March 8, 1999 issue of Chemical Engineering News, a weekly publication serving the chemical industry.    "Sandia National Laboratories chemist Maher E. Tadros, in protective gear, sprays a foam that he and Sandia chemist Mark D. Tucker have developed to decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents.  The foam is a combination of a mild nucleophile such as hydrogen peroxide carbonates commonly found in toothpaste, a positively charged non-toxic surfactant often found in hair conditioners, and hydrotopes found in detergents.  Hydrotopes found in detergents solubilize and catalyze the neutralization of the agents.    The foam reacts rapidly with the agents, is non-toxic and non-corrosive and could be produced at a cost of 15 cents per pound.  Testing the foam against the nerve gases VX and Soman and against mustard gas was conducted by Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago because Sandia can only use simulants.  The half-life of the reaction 'is in the neighborhood of 2-10 minutes, Soman being neutralized very quickly and mustard gas reacting much more slowly,' Tadros explains.  The foam has been shown by NMR to cleave the P-S bond in the agents.    Using a simulant for the biological warfare agent anthrax, the foam achieved a 7-log kill, meaning only one anthrax spore of 10 million is alive after one hour.  IIT will test live anthrax next month.    How the spores are killed is not known.  Researchers speculate that the surfactants damage the spore's protective protein wall and all the nucleophiles -- oxidizing agents -- to attack the genetic material inside.  The foam's development is part of the Department of Energy's Chemical & Biological Nonproliferation Program." 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The article discloses a product developed by Sandia Labs for the Biological and Chemical Warfare Division of the US Military under the auspices of the DOE.  The product is a combination of a peroxide gel surfactant commonly found in shampoo, conditioners and different food stuffs and hydrotopes found in detergents.  Obviously the product neutralizes the most potent nerve toxins and airborne pathogens known to man.  The product acts to neutralize these agents and cleanse them from the skin like an antibacterial soap, but it is not soap.  We spoke with one of the product developers, Dr. Mark Tucker.  His explanation was that the peroxide gel, an oxidizing agent in conjunction with the surfactant and hydrotope, surrounds the organism or chemical agent, oxidizes it and will not allow it to interact with it's environment, effectively neutralizing the toxic agent.  The surfactant-hydrotope combination is apparently very selective in seeking out only toxins and gram positive pathogens.  This is not an antioxidant reaction, quite the opposite, if peroxide is present.  Likewise, it appears we are looking at the missing ingredients in peroxide and ozone therapy that would keep these strong oxidizers from harming the body after they have oxidized pathogens and oxygenated the body -- the surfactant and hydrotope.  Surfactants have been used in fuel cells in lieu of salt to catalyze the electronic reaction and could do the same for ozone therapy machines.  We know that the body's T-cells dispatch pathogens with peroxide and we know that the body and cells manufacture and use surfactants in places like the lungs to regulate oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange and at the surface of the cell wall to reduce surface tension in the water layer surrounding the cell membrane.  This is necessary for cellular functioning and communications.  Could it be that the surfactant in the lungs has an anti-microbial and anti-toxin function that has eluded science to date?  It would appear that biochemists as well as the medical community may have missed these connections in terms of a surfactant-hydrotope role in human health.   SURFACTANTS, HYDROTOPES AND HUMAN HEALTH    We are reminded of the discovery of penicillin and how doctors lamented about not having seen the relation between the substance's known anti-microbial properties and human health earlier.  Iodine based anti-microbial soaps have been used in hospitals and clinics for years.  Even in use in surgery on patient's insides before closing them up to lessen the chance of infection and neutralize toxins.  Why didn't one of these practitioners ever think about creating a soap-like product for internal use capable of neutralizing toxins and pathogens while facilitating elimination?  We now have this product available::  Naturacal Blessings Soap and Harmony Water.  These products have been on the market for the last 18 years, quietly used by thousands of people with virtually nothing but positive benefits to their health.  Benefits that can only be attributed to the product's use as directed.  What we are witnessing is a totally new paradigm in healthcare and preventive maintenance.  A paradigm that is both inexpensive and effective.  We do not believe in "magic bullets" or panaceas.  We do believe in accessories or adjuncts that aid and restore body functioning to design, thus allowing the body to approach optimal health on its own.      Can the road to health and longevity be as simple as proper hydration coupled with a product capable of sequestering toxins and pathogens in such a manner that they can be washed from the body internally as easily as they can be washed from the skin with soap?  Is there something that can do this with no adverse side effects, no associated healing crisis and do this with no other form of intervention?     We believe the Naturacal Blessings Soap and Harmony Water are capable of doing just that.  This in reality is not intervention at all, it is personal hygiene, internal hygiene like drinking plenty of water, taking a bath or brushing your teeth!  This is a very uncomplicated procedure.  You simply replace all of your shampoos, soaps, toothpaste and laundry detergents with Naturacal products and witness the difference it makes in your life.  If you are a health conscious individual compare the cost of Naturacal monthly expense to the complex vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids, enzymes, trace minerals and various chelates (some chelating agents are surfactants) you are currently consuming in an attempt to remedy health concerns minus the cost of toiletries and detergents, then see where you stand.  Basically for slightly more than the replacement cost of your current personal hygiene items and detergents you can have Naturacal plus health.  How much is your health worth to you?  Are you really getting your money's worth from what you are spending when most of what you are consuming is eliminated from the body prior to use? philratte@gmail.com (2 OF 5)