Is your bubble bath safe?

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Is your bubble bath safe? (Mail On Line)

By PAT THOMAS

'Bath foam that triggers headaches. Shampoo full of cancer-causing chemicals. And shower gel that attacks your skin. As experts warn of the chemicals in our toiletries, we reveal the health hazards in your bathroom cabinet.

Pat Thomas makes sense of the often impenetrable labels, and reveals the ingredients' potentially devastating effects on our health.

Bath products

These days, most of us don't use soap in the shower or bath. Instead, we lather up with bath foams, shower gels, facial washes and scrubs, all of which rely on complex detergents ? often the same ones used in heavy industry ? to wash away simple dirt.

The difference between soap and detergent is like the difference between cotton and nylon. Soap and cotton are produced from natural products by relatively small modification.

Detergents and nylon are produced entirely in a chemical factory. There is no difference between the detergents in your household cleaning products and those you use in your bath. It is simply a matter of concentration.

Bubble baths, which are highly fragranced, have the greatest potential to cause skin irritation, allergic skin reactions and headaches. In the U.S., they carry a health warning alerting users to the possibility of skin irritation and urinary tract infections.

Body washes essentially contain the same basic ingredients as bubble bath. Soaking in any bath product will prolong its contact with your skin, increasing the risk that chemicals will be absorbed. Both bubble baths and shower gels have the potential to penetrate the skin and lungs.

Your bubble bath is likely to contain potentially irritating detergents like sodium laureth sulphate and cocami-dopropyl betaine (the latter is also a penetration enhancer, allowing other chemicals to be more easily absorbed); preservatives such as tetrasodium EDTA, a potential irritant; and methylchloroisothiazolinone (both potential mutagens ? substances that speed up gene mutation).

If it contains cocamide EDTA (or similar compounds ending with DEA, TEA or MEA) along with formaldehyde-forming substances such as bronopol, DMDM hydantoin, diazo-lidinyl urea, imidazolidinyl urea and quaternium-15, it is likely to contain cancer-causing nitrosamines. Studies show up to 93 per cent of toiletries and cosmetics contain these compounds'.

:My comments:

At Wikaniko the ingredients used in our bath gel/foam can be found below and as can be seen contain none of the above plus it is not tested on animals.

Aqua (Water), Ammonium laureth sulphate (Coconut based cleaning agent), Cocamidopropyl Betaine (vegetable derived), Polysorbate 20 (vegetable derived emulsifier), Sodium chloride, Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender oil), Lavandula Hybrida (Lavandin oil), Pelargonium graveolens (Geranium oil), Melaleuca alternifolia, Parfum (natural aroma), E 163 (Grape-skin Extract), Sodium citrate (vegetable), Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol

250ml

Why would you subject your skin to potentially harmful chemicals when you can buy safe products at Wikaniko  for only £4.25.

http://www.wikaniko.com/index.php?distributor=greenerearth&redirect=http://www.wikaniko.com/shop/lavender-geranium-shower-gel-bath-foam.html