Guess they don't want to admit to putting something classified as a poison
in the cleaning products, maybe.
Is the 10% Surfactant in Spray 'n Wash . . . 2-butoxyethanol?
Sure cuts the grease!
...Just Ordinary chemicals like in Household Cleaning Stuff, eh?
After all the comments folks have given
that say the ingredients of Inipol EAP 22 were no more hazardous
than ordinary household products...
and then they won't give the ingredients!
Maybe some laws need to be changed here? *
Consumer Products Safety Commission in charge of Regulating: ID and Labeling
Guess they don't want to admit to putting something classified as a poison
in the cleaning products, maybe.
Is the 10% Surfactant in Spray 'n Wash . . . 2-butoxyethanol?
Sure cuts the grease!
What's in Lysol Tub 'n Tile?
per MSDS it has a component which is diethylene glycol monobutyl ether *
MSDS *
CAS # 112-34-5
Diethylene glycol monobutyl ether is not the same, but a related compound to butoxyethanol.
C8H18O3 / CH2(CH2)3OCH2CH2OCH2CH2OH
Of course the concern of adverse health effects should be similar...WORSE?!
permission requested http://www.westp2net.org/janitorial/tools/haz2.htm -chemicals to avoid, if possible
Lysol Tub 'n Tile is one of the products an industrious housewife uses on a regular basis... She cleans her house and usually someone else's too over these past 40 years. She's now in her 60's and finds she has a serious red blood cell anemia to go along with nephritis (kidney disease). Has she been exposed often enough ... small amounts of exposure to chemicals ... that she is at risk for the same kind of health damage workers were... in their short 1 month of continuous exposure?
Symptoms of chemical overexposure * middle of page
What kind of
kidney damage does 2-butoxyethanol cause, anyway? 
What's in 409®?
*
British
Petroleum is said to have banned it's use on the Alyeska Pipeline in
Valdez, Alaska &/or in their company.
Something must be pretty bad in that? Yep!
Says
MSDS: EXPOSURE
TO ETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOBUTYL ETHER
WILL CAUSE BLOOD & BONE MARROW DAMAGE
Does anyone know what's in Dawn?
They're not saying *
... more than just a proprietary reason, most likely
It is relevant... because workers spent a lot of time washing the birds and sea otters and seals with Dawn...
& if we can learn something about that, too
... may help us learn something for 'next time' around.
Maybe the ethanol used here C2H6O is not as bad as some chemical compounds...
but housewives should still use gloves when washing dishes...
| GLASS
PLUS?
Has up to 10% 2-butoxyethanol... similar to Inipol EAP 22 MSDS pdf format Special Hazard Precautions: Chronic: NIOSH studies indicate 2-butoxyethanol has caused reproductive disorders in laboratory animals (rats or mice) and may have the potential for causing similar disorders in humans (FP N). Protect Eye: Yes |
At a minimum - Use Goggles 
and
Gloves 
when cleaning!
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