Testing conducted by the Organic Consumers Association and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has shown that a wide spectrum of personal care products, including Nature's Gate, Jason, Method, Whole Food’s 365 Brand, and about a dozen other "natural" brands contain traces of the chemical 1,4-Dioxane in their products. This chemical is not intentionally added to these products, but shows up as a contaminant from a manufacturing process that includes petrochemicals (specifically the ethoxylation process.)
1,4-Dioxane is a possible human carcinogen, a known immune system toxicant, and a developmental/reproductive toxic. This chemical has been banned from cosmetics in Canada, and it is the subject of a recent lawsuit in California against "organic" brands that manufacture their products using petrochemicals that may lead to contaminants such as 1,4-Dioxane.
For brands that do not contain 1,4-dioxane, check out the Organic Consumers Association.








