Babies across America are sitting waist deep in an odious brew of cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins that could be detrimental to their health, according to a new report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics about children’s bath and personal-care products.
The Campaign sent unopened bottles of bubble bath, baby lotion, and other products targeted at babies and children to an independent lab to be tested for 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde, chemicals that do not appear on product labels but are known to be carcinogenic.
Of the 48 kids’ products tested for 1,4-dioxane, 67 percent showed up positive. The lab also uncovered the presence of formaldehyde in 82 percent of the 28 products it tested. In all, 17 products—including Huggies Naturally Refreshing Cucumber & Green Tea baby wash, Sesame Street Bubble Bath, American Girl Real Beauty Inside and Out Shower Gel, and even Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo—were contaminated with both 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde.
– from treehugger