03-16-2021, 22:12:10 PM
(03-16-2021, 20:12:36 PM)a-boy-playing-with-rubiks Wrote: Isn't "dioxide" just two parts oxygen, one part non-oxygen?
No, it's anything with two oxygens. It can have a hell of a lot of other things too. There's like a thousand dioxides. What they're talking about is Dioxane, which they are (somewhat maliciously) attempting to confuse with Dioxin. Dioxin is extremely poisonous. Dioxane isn't. It's a 2B carcinogen, which SOUNDS scary, until you know what that means. That means "It caused cancer when we fed enormous amounts of it to rats, but factory workers with significant exposure to it don't have a higher cancer rate than the population at large". Either way, it doesn't matter because the amounts are tiny, and even that's extremely regulated in most places. The purpose of it is to make the Sodium Laureth Sulfate not strip so much, foam better, Etc. And this genuinely pathetic not-even poison is the WORST of the things mentioned.
Sodium Laureth sulfate is just a detergent. It's supposed to be in there, it's one of the things that makes soap, you know, WORK.
And parabens are just a preservative, which is in food and things. And shampoo and such. It prevents them from fucking rotting.
I am the They who says it!