Stardrops..I have seen the light!

susieb

it must be as there are no chemicals in it

Cazzdevil

Not sure, but the ingredients listed don't look too bad, and Stardrops has no soap in either (handy for me since I suffer terrible dry hands)

http://www.thorntonross.com/household/STARDROPS%20contains%20the%20following%20ingredients.pdf

mumoftwo

Be careful though, stardrops does give you sore dry hands if you use it a lot. I had a bucket with water and stardrops, I was in and out, rinsing cloth, done bathroom too with stardrops on a sponge, at the end of the day my hands were red and dry and very sore! I don't normally suffer from dry hands or have allergies

vivw_2

What are all these if they aren't chemicals?

STARDROPS contains the following ingredients:-
Aqua (water)
Sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate
Alkyl ether sulphate
Alcohols C9-11 ethoxylated
Denatonium benzoate solution (Bitrex)
Parfum (perfume)
Dipentene (limonene)
2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol (Bronopol)
Colourant

I use Stardrops , but must admit to being worried about whats in it as it gives off fumes

vivw_2

Have found the following. No wonder it irritates hands!!!

Sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate - http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/SO/sodium_dodecylbenzene_sulphonate.html
Alkyl ether sulphate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_laureth_sulfate
Dipentene - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipentene
2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronopol

Cazzdevil

vivw wrote:

What are all these if they aren't chemicals?

STARDROPS contains the following ingredients:-
Aqua (water)
Sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate (a salt derivative)
Alkyl ether sulphate (another form of salt)
Alcohols C9-11 ethoxylated
Denatonium benzoate solution (Bitrex)
Parfum (perfume)
Dipentene (limonene)
2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol (Bronopol)
Colourant

I use Stardrops , but must admit to being worried about whats in it as it gives off fumes

The chemical names for some of these things look scary and looking them up on the internet can make ANYTHING sound scary - the sweeteners that are in diet drinks for example, if you were to look up aspartame online it'd give you the fright of your life. There's too much information available online that can put the frighteners on you.

TKP_3

Cazzdevil wrote:

the sweeteners that are in diet drinks for example, if you were to look up aspartame online it'd give you the fright of your life.

It did scare me (aspartame) - try not to touch anything that has it in now!

Cazzdevil

Meh. I just ignore it all now, the odd can of Pepsi Max isn't going to kill me, especially since I eat a really good diet the rest of the time!

I'm sure I read once that tuna fish was bad for you... Tish posh. Scaremongering tactics, it's silly.

gingababe

I have read lots of postins re stardrops, can somebody tell me what it is?
many thanks in advance.

Cazzdevil

http://www.thorntonross.com/household/stardrops.html