[Mase]

Good grief, it appears that chemicalphobia and scientific illiteracy continues to expand at an alarming rate. You eat food every day that contains trace elements of chemicals that are carcinogenic. You breathe air every day that delivers to your lungs trace amounts of deadly chemicals (think benzene). And yes, it's a fact that you consume food every day that contains naturally occurring formaldehyde. Every fermented food or beverage you consume has methanol. When that methanol is broken down by the body, the result is formaldehyde. To think that the small amounts of formaldehyde in these natural processes (or the minute amount of formaldehyde found in baby shampoo) is somehow dangerous to our health, is just plain idiocy.

[Ramius]

So there is some trace of formaldehyde in a product that sits on somebody’s head for about a minute and is then rinsed off. So what? It could be arsenic and still do no particular harm. Or are people feeding shampoo to their babies now?

[Ramius]

So there is some trace of formaldehyde in a product that sits on somebody’s head for about a minute and is then rinsed off. So what? It could be arsenic and still do no particular harm. Or are people feeding shampoo to their babies now?