So I ordered some fancy little cookie decorations from a

[hedgehog]

reputable company; snowflakes, lightbulbs penguins etc. and the ingredient list includes sodium laurel sulfate.

:wtf:


Isn't that stuff in shampoo?

:(

[Tesha]

1. Yuck!

http://www.mehndiskinart.com/Sodium_Lauryl_Sulfate.htm



Used as a whipping aid in dried egg products

and a whole lot of other things, its in toothpaste too!...

[hedgehog]

2. I guess if I brush my teeth with it, it's ok just this once.

I hate buying stuff on-line and then finding out it's got weird shit in it! I noticed some sites are now allowing you to see a list of ingredients.

[Warpy]

4. That makes sense, it's a foaming agent

that makes soaps and shampoos suds up.

[Warpy]

3. So?

They use paraffin in chocolate to increase the melting temperature in some candies.

The colon gets rid of any non poisonous inedibles.

[hedgehog]

5. I guess my first thought was to wonder if they'd taste like soap.

[hippywife]

6. I think so.

And I wouldn't want to eat it. It's one of the big environmental offenders in shampoo and why I stopped using it.

Sorry, hedgehog.

[hedgehog]

8. I always heard that when it's used in shampoo, it's very harsh on the hair.

Never heard that it's hard on the environment, too.

What's really a hoot - you can check most brands of shampoo from the cheapest to the most expensive, and you'll find this and water as the main ingredients. I had to hike over to the organic foods section to find a shampoo without it.

[hippywife]

9. I just wet my hair and

use conditioner. I do buy a milder, more natural conditioner. No shampoo. If I do get the urge to use shampoo, I have an all natural goats milk shampoo bar from one of the producers in our coop.

[kestrel91316]

7. They probably only use just the teensiest amount would be my guess....