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[q]Find the hidden ingredients lurking in your personal-care products. + [/b]YUM[/b][/q]

Are people eating the shampoo and drinking the shaving gel?

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I would not expect manufacturing byproducts to show up on the label. We certainly don't for food products... When a food product includes grilled meat, we don't put in the note "Cooked Beef [Beef, Carbon, Nitrosamines, blah-blah stuff that makes it smell like grilled meat]"

And doctors will inject botulism into people's lips for huge sums of money.

It's not much of an exaggeration to say that polyethylene glycol is used in almost every personal care product on the market. Neither linked blog or that blog's source offer any shred of evidence to back the claim that its possibly harmful. But I suppose that sensationalism brings the ad impressions.

I guess I'm a little confused (probably because it's late), but when they mean byproducts, are they referring to the chemicals actually in the product itself? Or are the byproducts produced in manufacturing and not in anything the consumer would necessarily come in contact with?

Personally, I'm more concerned with some things that are legal additives - such as Red Dye #40. Whew, do I ever get bad allergic reactions to that crap. It's banned throughout most of Europe, but try finding cough medicine without that stuff here in the US. Nearly impossible, I tell you! And we use it for no other reason than to make things a pretty, unnatural color of red. What a waste.

But I digress.