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Harmful baby products

Do you know that baby products are made with an ingredient called formaldehyde?

Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen that causes skin reactions, headaches and chronic fatigue. The vapour is extremely irritating to the eyes, nose and throat.

The tobacco industry informs people that smoking may cause cancer. Should the cosmetics and health products industries do the same?

The words we see when checking baby products are: ‘save’ , ‘purity’, ‘soothing’, ‘healing’.

But these do not relate to what we know about formaldehyde. Those little babies are dependent on us to look after them. Adults also use baby products to soothe skin problems.

We all have to be educated about ingredients not about brands. The ingredient list is the key! Once we know and understand what those ingredients are and the effects they have, we can look for brands with safe ingredients.

So why do most baby products contain synthetic ingredients?

Reasons could include:

to make a profit – often synthetics are cheaper
the chemists creating them have not learned organic chemistry
manufacturers are not aware of the possible long-term harm.

Here are web links to information about synthetic ingredients and their effects.

Cosmetic database

Toxic ingredients

Safe baby products

Fortunately we have a solution. Mother of three Narelle Chenery is the director of research and development ONEgroup, and creator of the Miessence organic range.

Narelle has created the certified organic Mother and Baby range. They are completely free of synthetic, chemicals and toxins. View samples of the range and scroll down to Mother and baby care.

This is the ingredient list we want for our babies!

Watch Narelle Chenery video ‘The difference between natural and organic’

References

ONEgroup toxic ingredients

Wikipedia (look under safety)

See topics ‘About organic’

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