Parents generally do not notice what it may contain the water in which our children have bathed. We remove the plug, the water drains and period. We can assume that it will contain enough dirt, dead cells and traces of bath gel or shampoo.
Well, a team of scientists from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology of the Santiago de Compostela University have analyzed the bathing water of babies and found nothing less than up to fifteen allergenic fragrances.
When analyzing eight real samples after the bath of children between 6 months and two years of age, they found allergenic compounds included in soaps, gels, colonies, creams and other personal hygiene products that babies usually use.
All samples contained at least 6 of the 15 compounds analyzed, even some in very high concentrations. For the understanding, these are chemicals such as benzyl salicylate, benzyl benzoate, linalool, coumarin and hydroxycitronellal.
Taking into account that babies bathe every day or day in the middle and easily exceed 15 minutes playing in the water, children are too exposed to harmful substances. There is not only the risk that allergens can be absorbed through the skin, but also by inhalation and in many cases because children can directly drink the water.
According to European regulations, the label must indicate if the product exceeds a certain level of this type of substances, but it is believed that the values are too tolerant, something that should not happen when we talk about the health of the little ones, which by the way every They are more allergic to everything.
