Certificate of Analysis (undated) for Lone Star Botanicals Bentonite Clay – provided by Primal Life Organics to customers confirms Lead levels found by Lead Safe Mama, LLC.
Highlight Published: Sunday – June 26, 2022 Originally appeared in this article – link. Multiple Lead Safe Mama readers have shared with us that Primal Life Organics has shared the COA for the clay base of their bentonite-clay based tooth powder with them when they requested to see test results for the ingredients of their Dirty Mouth…
June 20, 2022 email from Trina (owner, Primal Life Organics) indicating she doesn’t understand the math behind the Lead found in her product (& her public response to me sharing this.)
You can see this graphic (as posted on instagram) by clicking through to Instagram below – please do read the 79 comments there too! Scroll down to also see Trina’s response to me sharing this with my readers (second image below/ second Instagram post) and the public response (currently 33 comments) to Trina’s (outrageous) response….
Trina (owner of Primal Life Organics) says her (Lead-contaminated) Dirty Mouth Toothpowder is “Safe To Swallow” (& that swallowing may even be beneficial!), but (6/24) advises customers against swallowing it. Which is it?
June 25, 2022 – Saturday Another Chapter in the Contradictory Messaging from Primal Life Organics – as it relates to their Lead-contaminated tooth powder. Images below: A screenshot of Trina’s June 24, 2022 statement which was sent to customers who expressed concerns for Lead and other toxicants found in her toothpowder – concerns based on the June…
False and misleading statements written up by Primal Life Organics. Trina from Primal Life Organics created a “hit-piece” on me, which includes a full list of all the legal actions in which I have prevailed. Please read it for a laugh!
June 24, 2022 – Friday In skimming this e-mail (screenshot of first paragraph, above – scroll down to see the full text of the mail from Trina, the owner of Primal Life Organics) — sent to me by a reader (I have not yet read it too carefully, as I am too busy actually helping…
Primal Life Organics tells some customers that the clay used in their Dirty Mouth Toothpowder has Lead and tells others it is certified Lead-free.
June 23, 2022 – Thursday Primal Life Toothpowder Update Please read the graphic below – including screenshots of Primal Life Organic’s exchange with a customer from May of 2022 (just last month.) I am posting some additional information here on the website that I have also already posted on social media. I am sharing these…
I got my first ever full heavy metals test!
Comment below with your guesses!
11 years ago today I was presented with my first award from the Federal government… & this is where things stand today (this week!)
Thanks to “Facebook Memories” I got a reminder about this post from 11 years ago today. June 22, 2022 – Wednesday 11 years ago this week (11 years ago today) I won my first award from the Federal Government for my childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Advocacy work (my first award ever for this work). No…
Letter from Primal Life Organics Attorney in text form
Wednesday – June 22, 2022 We have at least one Lead Safe Mama regular reader who uses a text to speech software (like my son uses!) to assist with reading documents. As a result, whenever possible I try to include the text of documents that I share here in readable text format (in addition to…
Dutch Oral Use Clay Research Study: Lead, Mercury, Arsenic & Cadmium in traditional healing clays (July of 2013, NIH: National Library of Medicine)
June 21, 2022 – Tuesday Key points For lead, the use of 34 of the 36 traditional clays and two of the 27 health clays would result in intake levels exceeding the toxicological limit by up to 20-fold. Use of 15 of the 35 traditional clays and 11 of the 27 health clays would result…
Article from 2016 discussing unsafe levels of Lead found in bentonite / detox clay; FDA warning.
Click the image below to read the article.
Bentonite Clay Research Study: Lead from topically applied Bentonite clay concentrates in livers and kidneys of mice studied (March 2020, NIH: National Library of Medicine)
For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-Federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…
As anticipated, Primal Life Organic’s legal team sent me a “cease and desist” letter. Here’s their letter and my response.
Monday – June 20, 2022, 10:26 p.m. If you click the image of the cover email (below) you can see the full Cease and Desist letter from this law firm (which I haven’t actually read yet.) – Have fun checking that out. If you have words you want to share with this law firm in…
The Nurse who owns PrimalLife sent me an email threatening legal action, in which she demonstrated a clear misunderstanding of math and science.
June 20, 2022 — Monday — Well… this has been an exciting day! This morning I woke up to a flurry of activity around the PrimalLife Dirty Mouth tooth paste article I published last night (in the wee hours today, actually — 6/20/22)! Many of my readers were in touch, with various communications they…
Primal Life Dirty Mouth Toothpowder: Positive for 7,000 ppb Lead and 18,000 ppb Cadmium (Cadmium causes cancer and is considered toxic when ingested) at levels in the 100 ppb range & up
This is an ad-free article. To make a contribution to help us keep our most widely-read articles ad-free, click here. Thank you. This is the first of several articles we have published related to this product. Here’s a full list: An article published on June 19, 2022. Published June 20, 2022 — Email from…
Tabor Place claims the paint on their bottles / sippy cups is Lead-free & Cadmium-free. This is simply not true. Yet ANOTHER Lead-painted baby bottle!
First a bunch of images to start! My youngest son Charlie holding one of the bottles (wearing gloves to be safe!) We took this picture (above) in response to this sticker on the box (since Charlie is my “little one”) So that we could post the picture online and tag Tabor Place to make sure they…
Kids with a history of Lead exposure can have an increased risk of food allergies: Our story (my sons are highly allergic to food dye)
Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 (But I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while now!) First, please take a look at the photos below. This is what happened to my son (who was 16 years old at the time these photos were taken) after he had ONE SIP of his friend’s light pink bubble…
June 14, 2022: It’s not really important that June of 2022 is now the 13th #BestMonthEver… but here’s why it is important… 😉
Tuesday – June 14, 2022 The main reason this is important is because it is only the 14th day of June! [And today is not even over yet!] Given there are 16.5 days left in June, and page views here have leveled out at about 10,000 views each day (just over), we can easily anticipate another…
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Introduction (for those new to this website): Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)…
Lead Safe Mama, LLC – Financial Update
Lead Safe Mama, LLC focuses on science-based, independent (without government or corporate influence) environmental advocacy with an emphasis on healthy housing, childhood Lead-poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety. Learn more at LeadSafeMama.com – Lead Safe Mama, LLC is not a nonprofit organization (instead we are a woman-owned small business with a unique community-collaborative business model),…
xtrema 1.25 quart Versa Pot ceramic cookware, “Handcrafted In China”: 16,400 ppm Lead (90 & up is unsafe for kids) & 766 ppm Cadmium (a carcinogen).
For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe…
Tomorrow (June 8, 2022): All The Milestones!
Tomorrow – Wednesday, June 8th…. ….June of 2022 will become the #BestJuneEver at LeadSafeMama.com…passing 187,000 page views for the month [the previous #BestJuneEver was June of 2019 with 186,506 page views for the full month] — even though we are just 8 days in! We will also pass 14,000,000 all-time page views tomorrow for the…
New York City (Astoria) Community Event with FREE XRF testing: THIS SATURDAY (June 11, 2022) 10 am – 4 pm!
Lead Safe Mama, LLC will have a booth at Astoria Park on Saturday, June 11, 2022 in conjunction with the NYC Department of Sanitation Safe Disposal Event happening that day. Here is the information for the Safe Disposal Event: Click this link for the event details / to register for the Safe Disposal event. Continue…
Full Corelle “official” response to the Lead Safe Mama article on Corelle’s original statement about Lead in their pre-2005 dishware.
June 5, 2022 – Sunday Since the *new* (May of 2022) drama and flurry of activity started around the Lead Safe Mama, LLC work exposing the presence of toxic heavy metals (Lead, Cadmium and Arsenic specifically) in the painted decorations on vintage (and even on newer) Corelle dishware, Corelle drafted and issued a public statement…