Baby shampoo tainted with cancer-causing chemicals
Are you washing your baby with carcinogens?
A new report put out by an advocacy group called the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found trace amounts of formaldehyde in 23 of 28 baby shampoos tested, according to USA Today. The Environmental Protection Agency considers formaldehyde a probable cancer-causing agent. Formaldehyde is not listed as an ingredient in the baby bubbles, but is released as preservatives in the products break down over time.
Some 32 of 48 baby shampoos and bubble baths tested in the study contained trace amounts of 1,4-dioxane, which is also considered a carcinogen, as well. Here’s the full list of products tested, including Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, and the results.
“Our intention is not to alarm parents, but to inform parents that products that claim to be gentle and pure are contaminated with carcinogens, which is completely unnecessary,” Stacy Malkan, a spokesperson for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, told the Washington Post.
The advocacy group is calling for the more strict regulation of such products. The manufacturers of the products contend that governments around the world consider such trace amounts of the chemicals safe.
People who are trusted to do the right thing by our children should be made to drink the shampoo water for a week or until they get weak.thanks
Who are they? And why is it that all the BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of children over the last 50 some odd years have not all died of this “”"”" Cancer “”"”"”". People don’t believe anything you hear. It would be tantamount to my saying that drinking water or breathing air will cause cancer. Would the FDA or Health Canada allow these products to be sold. Ladies… lets not be so gullible.