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Many toxicologists have repeatedly shown their evidence to governments around the world with very little action being taken. Large companies have the resources to dispute any evidence that these independent scientists produce. You only have to remember how, for decades, tobacco companies managed to discredit any studies showing tobacco to be harmful, even though their own scientists had found the same evidence, but had been threatened to keep quiet.

Somehow, as parents, we have this idealistic notion that no company would be allowed to sell products for babies and children that had the potential to cause health problems, even cancer in the long term. The clever advertising reinforces this belief and when health practitioners also endorse these products, we feel even more reassured.

But, these same health practitioners often know no more than you about the ingredients in toiletries. They, too, use them on their own children because they have been led to believe that they are safe. The ingredients are "allowed" because manufacturers do not have to prove them to be safe.  Ingredients only have to be proven to be “unsafe” before they must be withdrawn and manufacturers rely on a limited list of banned chemicals. What is more disturbing, though, is the fact that little testing has been done on the combination of chemicals in these products.  Individual chemicals may be harmless but put together, a reaction may occur which has the potential to do harm.