Study Says: Many Major Personal Care Products Getting Safer, But Not All
July 30, 2009 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis 
Photo courtesy of All Natural Baby.
There is good news to report about some of the world’s leading personal care products. The Organic Consumers Association has released a study showing safety improvements for 23 products from the last time they were examined a year ago.
At the time, the results showed potentially dangerous levels of the contaminant 1,4-dioxane. A byproduct of using ethoxylation, a cheap shortcut process that provides mildness to harsh cleaning ingredients, 1,4-dioxane isn’t found on the ingredients label of any product.
The danger is that 1,4-dioxane is considered a possible carcinogen to humans by many health agencies including: the International Agency for Research on Cancer; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
“When laboratory animals were tested with 1,4-dioxane at the lowest part per billion level over the animals lives, they developed cancer,” according to the OCA.