I was grocery shopping yesterday and I happened to walk down the baby aisle. I always stop to see all the baby personal care products on the market to see if they have any “natural” ones out and most of the time I am disappointed by what I find.

This time was no different.

In fact there were two whole rows of Johnson’s Baby Wash completely empty due to a sale on the Vanilla Oatmeal and Shea and Cocoa Butter varieties.

Of course, now that I have had my eyes open to the toxins in our personal care products, I decided to look up the products when I got home. By the way, I strongly urge you to look up your own family’s products on the Cosmetics Database, you may be surprised at what you find. Gaining information is a small step in the right direction.

So back to the Johnson’s baby wash products. I wasn’t surprised by the number that popped up on the database.

Moderate Hazard

I love how a product that is supposed to be completely safe for babies, specifically says “keep out of reach of children”.

These products have 9 ingredients with a score of 3 and above.

Johnson and Johnson has brand power and it’s synonymous with baby products.

I used varying products of theirs on all of my children before being enlightened in the ways of personal care toxicity. I would love to say ignorance is bliss, but that is far from where you want to be with this issue.

Now whenever I see a bottle of body wash or lotion, specifically targeted towards babies it makes me ill knowing that there are still a wide range of parents out there who do not know what are really in these products and how they can adversely effect our children and their health. Brand power in this case is a bad, bad thing.

So from now on, I’m going to post products that I see, ones that are widely used, or maybe even organically obscure but still harmful and I’m going to post them on Toxic Tuesday.

I may eventually turn it into a linky so that others can do a little research and share what they have found. Let me know in the comments if you would be interested in participating in that.

Knowledge is power my friends!

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