"Shampoos with SLS could retard healing and keep children's eyes from developing properly. Children under six years old are especially vulnerable to improper eye development. (Summary of Report of Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. conference."
Is this if it's put directly into a child's eye? I can think of any number of chemicals that wouldn't be good, either.
"Sodium Lauryl Sulphate can cause cataracts in adults and delays the healing of wounds in the surface of the cornea."
Don't rub shampoo into your eyes, and you won't have a problem. Guess what? Drano is nasty stuff to eat. Fortunately, it isn't a food. Just like shampoo is not Visine.
"Sodium Lauryl Sulphate has a low molecular weight and so is easily absorbed by the body. It builds up in the heart, liver and brain and can cause major problems in these areas."
What kinds of "major problems"? Considering pretty much all shampoos contain SLS and most everyone uses them on a daily basis, I'm sure there are THOUSANDS of documented cases to back this up, right? And if it is so easily absorbed into the body, why would it not be flushed out just as easily?
"Sodium Lauryl Sulphate causes skin to flake and to separate and causes roughness on the skin."
Umm yeah, that's because it removes oils from your skin which dries it out. Why don't they just say "SLS causes dry skin"? Oh, because it's bullshit propaganda and it sounds a lot scarier the way they say it.
"Sodium Lauryl Sulphate causes dysfunction of the biological systems of the skin."
Your skin secretes oils, which SLS washes away. That's a sysfunction of it's biological system all right, just an utterly meaningless one.
"Sodium Lauryl Sulphate is such a caustic cleanser that it actually corrodes the hair follicle and impairs the ability to grow hair."
I'm sure it is, in pure form. You wouldn't want to drink pure acetic acid, but in diluted form (a.k.a. "vinegar"), it's absolutely harmless.
"Sodium Lauryl Sulphate is routinely used in clinical studies deliberately to irritate the skin so that the effects of other substances can be tested." (Study cited by the Wall St Journal, 1st November 1998)
See above.
In summary, what a load of bullshit.