Yikes!

All you Mommies out there, take notice! Thanks to Blythe for giving me the head's-up about this newest research on baby shampoos & products! Several popular baby washes, such as Johnson's Baby Shampoo, L'Oreal Kids Extra Gentle 2-in-1 shampoo and Pampers Kandoo foaming hand soap contain "enough formaldehyde to trigger a skin reaction in highly sensitive people, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said in its report. According to the US National Cancer Institute, studies of workers exposed to formaldehyde have linked the chemical to cancers of the nasal sinuses, nasopharynx, brain and possibly leukemia." I remember my younger sister Anna being super-sensitive to soaps, etc., growing up. I wonder if she was reacting to this particular chemical.

As the report summarizes: "If chemicals are causing cancer in animals, we really shouldn't be putting them on babies' heads," said Stacy Malkan of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics." Definitely not!