Formaldehyde In Your Personal Care Products

We are all educating ourselves more and more about the toxins that we expose ourselves to voluntarily in our day to day lives by our product choice. However, sometimes toxins can be hiding where you would not even suspect they might be. One that has been brought to light is the use of a chemical called Formaldehyde.

Formaldehyde is a is a colorless gas compound (HCHO) that is known as a carcinogen, meaning that it causes cancer. It is an allergen that can also irritate your eyes, mucous membranes (eyes, nose and throat) and the upper respiratory system. It can also cause headaches, rashes, hives (blistery, white, and itchy), dizziness, nausea, and chronic fatigue. Some other symptoms include: heart palpitations, ear infections, trouble sleeping, memory loss, trouble focusing, depression, weakness, migraines, abdominal pain, aching joints and muscles, and difficulty breathing.

Sounds like a pretty scary thing right? What's even scarier is what it is in!

Formaldehyde is found in MANY personal care products. What's even worse...it's in even more infant care products as well. We are exposing our newborn babies to this is hospitals when they are born even. This is NOT across the board. These are specific companies that manufacture their personal care products with Formaldehyde. What makes it even trickier is that Formaldehyde comes in many forms so it's not going to be listed as the word Formaldehyde on the product, making it harder for consumers to pinpoint which ones do contain the toxin.

Formaldehyde can be found in hundreds of products, including cosmetics, paper, wood and clothes. Simply touching those products, or just breathing the formaldehyde they release into the air, can cause intense symptoms. Your best defense is to limit exposure to this chemical. Here are a few that I have found so far.

Shampoo

• Avon Kids 2-in-1 Super Gentle Shampoo for Normal Hair
• Dove Shampoo Extra Volume
• Unilver
• Johnson's Baby Shampoo
• Softwash Baby Shampoo
  
• Kissably Baby Soft Johnson & Johnson

Conditioner

• Avon Kids Super Gentle Conditioner
• Avon Detangler
• Dove conditioner
• Intense Moisture, Unilever
• Nizoral A-D Non-medicated
  
• Daily Conditioner from Janssen Pharmaceutica

Hair Gel

• Avon Kids Super Gentle 2-in-1 Soft Styling Gel
• All Hair Types Avon
• Dove Shape & Lift Volumizing Gel
• Unilever (so multiplicity discipline smoothing gel)
• Innovative Styling Options

Baby Wipes

• Huggies Natural Care Baby Wipes
• Unscented Kimberly-Clark Huggies Newborn Baby Wipes (Fragrance Free)
• Kimberly-Clark Pampers One-ups
• Baby Wipes with Aloe, Alcohol Free, Proctor & Gamble

Vitamins

• Flintstones Children's Complete Multivitamin Chewable Tablets
• Centrum Kids Complete Vitamin
• One-a-Day Kids Scooby-Doo Multivitamin plus Calcium

Is there any better reason to choose Shaklee products? You can be sure the safety and HEALTH of your family is Shaklee's goal! Shaklee products are unique ...Shaklee shampoos, conditioners, vitamins, handy wipes and children's vitamins, DO NOT contain formaldehyde!


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Source :
Dr. Benjamin Asher Pediatric Annals 36:1