Green Options » baby bath products http://greenoptions.com/tag/baby-bath-products Posts tagged 'baby bath products' Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en A Different Kind of Bath Safety http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/01/29/a-different-kind-of-bath-safety/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/01/29/a-different-kind-of-bath-safety/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:00:16 +0000 Beth Bader http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/01/29/a-different-kind-of-bath-safety/ Marketing claims using “natural” and “baby” accompany potentially hazardous ingredients on the labelNo doubt as a parent you’ve witnessed some odd behavior from your toddler. Things like running naked after the cat brandishing salad tongs, eating miscellaneous crusty items off the kitchen floor (but refusing good food at dinner), and even drinking her own bathwater — in great big gulps, soap and all.

While I can take a reasonable guess at what was on the kitchen floor, the actual ingredients in that soapy water were a bit of a shock. An article from the Cox New Service published early in 2007 reported that up to 57 percent of all baby soaps may contain a suspected carcinogen, 1,4-dioxane.

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