OK now you are in for it because you have gotten me thinking about our governments lack of consumer protection and I will get carried away!!!
I completely agree with you about the influence of lobbyist for manufactures affecting what legislators consider legal or allowable. I suffer from severe Allergic Contact Dermatitis, ACD an allergic form of eczema. In middle age I became allergic to many of the legal chemicals added to our cleaning, grooming products, used to accelorate blending of material like poly/cotton, nylon, elastic, adhesives, shoes and so on and I gotten my productive life back. I have had to replace 95% of my wardrobe, all my shoes, grooming products, cleaning products and the list goes on. These chemicals are legal in the USA, or legal if used in a certain percentage considered legally safe, whereas many in Europe have been banned for years. That is because the major chemical companies use lobbyist that have enticements to get our congress and FDA to allow these toxins. Big money. I ask you why does a bottle of dish soap need to have a shelf life of a hundred years? The preservatives allowed, for example in Dawn the MI/MCI are pure poison. Sure the makers of Dawn like the fact that the batch shelf life is long, but the chemical companies have a steady market for their product. Many may not realize these chemicals and elements actually transfer though your skin and into your bloodstream. Your skin is not the barrier you imagine it. Our immune system and in my case sends out warrior "histamines" to battle these elements it perceives as toxic, trying to protect me. They have the opposite affect and raise my inflammation, thus giving me an autoimmune disease, eczema, which is chronic. Another example of lobbyist controlling congress is the tobacco industry. We all know the lobbyist win. Still the general public is becoming more aware. The toxic MI/MCI had been removed voluntarily from Cottonelle personal wipes and many baby wipes over 2 years ago. I like to think the letters I have written have have helped as I am sure many others have written to product makers also. Many wondered why babies were getting blistering bottom rashes, it was the toxic ingredients in these products, especially the MI/MCI. Babies were better off in the old days when we used a wash cloth or cloth diaper to clean off their bottoms. I have had great success on my skin using a bar soap made just like women did for centuries. Just 2 ingredients, lard and lye. Scary to read that lye is in it? Yes, but the lye is transformed into glycerin during the soap making process so you are only in contact with lard and glycerin. I use my Grandma's Lye soap, a bar soap for face and body exclusively and as a shampoo also. Available on Amazon (I have no financial interest in Grandma's, just grateful for their safe product so I don't have to try to make my own safe soap and shampoo). The shampoo works best with soft water. No more dry itchy skin in need of toxic moisturizers and no more itchy scalp. Just read what is in your grooming products, then search out the meaning and side effects of all the chemical and weird 15 letter word ingredients. The lights will come on. Many on this site have other autoimmune diseases, as I do. Once you have one autoimmune disease you are incline to get others, so if you can take precautions start now.
If only I had known!