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Formaldehyde In adult and baby products, Even Diet Coke!!!!!

Cameronsmom by Cameronsmom Standing(June 2008) (rank 500+)

Formaldehyde is an inexpensive preservative that many companies use to prolong the shelf life of their products and it is a cancer causing ingredient. It is in everything from baby shampoo to toothpaste and things such as soap and adult shampoo. It is also in DIET COKE as well

as many nail poilishs .

 Now of course Formaldehyde is not on the label, instead you will see one of 30 trade names, one being Q15. You know many of us and our children have things like Asthma, ADD, ADHD and eczema. The products that we use in our homes attribute largely to that. The chemicals that we wash our clothes and sheets in, well we sleep in the sheets, we wear those clothes, so our skin is constantly in contact with that. 

Registry names: Formaldehyde
Chemical name: Methanal
Synonyms, Trade names:
Formic acid aldehyde, formalin, methyl aldehyde, oxomethane, methyleneoxide, oxymethylene, formyl hydrate, Formol, Fannoform, BFV, Formalith, Ivalon, Lysoform, Morbicid, Superslysoform, Tannosynt, Antverruc, Sandovac, Vobaderin
Chemical name (German):
Formaldehyd, Methanal
Chemical name (French):
Formaldéhyde, Méthanal
Appearance: colourless gas with pungent odour

 

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Mumsie
June 2008 | Mumsie
Re: Formaldehyde In adult and baby products, Even Diet Coke!!!!!

Thank you for pointing this out, my little girl has multiple food allergies and gets echema and bronchiolitis. I am very very careful with all additives and will certainly  be looking to avoid this one.



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KathrynR1402
June 2008 | KathrynR1402
Re: Formaldehyde In adult and baby products, Even Diet Coke!!!!!

Can you set my mind at rest and tell me where you sourced this information please? I've just had a quick trawl of the net and it seems that the formaldehyde is in the aspartame, which is something I try to avoid anyway? Thanks!



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