{"id":7488,"date":"2010-10-27T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/hair-for-you\/2010\/10\/free-or-not-free-that-is-the-question.html"},"modified":"2017-11-28T08:43:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:43:20","slug":"free-or-not-free-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/hair-for-you\/2010\/10\/free-or-not-free-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Free or Not Free that is the Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brazilian Blowout’s advertise that it is 100% <\/strong>Formaldehyde Free in my opinion this is a misleading statement. Tests by\u00a0Doug Schoon<\/strong>, a leading scientist and expert who works with state, federal and international regulators to develop beauty industry related standards and regulations with regards to safety, consumer testing and cosmetics registrations\/regulations, says\u00a0“Methylene Glycol is the key functioning ingredient used in most professional hair smoothing treatments currently on the market.” “Formaldehyde is not a cosmetic ingredient and never has been; it is a gas that cannot be added to cosmetics, and only exists in tiny trace amounts. Misunderstanding the nature of Formaldehyde has led to the incorrect belief that 37% Methylene Glycol is the same as 37% Formaldehyde, when in fact, 37% Methylene Glycol contains only trace amounts of Formaldehyde; less than 0.05% to be precise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brazilian Blowout’s advertise that it is 100% Formaldehyde Free in my opinion this is a misleading statement. Tests by Doug Schoon, a leading scientist and expert who works with state, federal and international regulators to develop beauty industry related standards and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\r\n