What’s a day without learning about another toxic additive to our lives? This time it’s a chemical substance called Propylene Glycol. This little baby is found in moisturizers, as the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps (usually used to capture beetles), as a food additive (AKA E1520) and…are you ready for this? To De-ice airplanes! Because of its low chronic oral toxicity, propylene glycol is generally recognized as safe for use as a direct food additive. The US Food and Drug Administration includes it on its list of ingredients that are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) and the World Health Organization recognizes it as safe for human use. I would beg to differ. Putting the same chemical used to de-ice planes on my skin, doesn’t strike me as the safest thing to do. So much is deemed safe for human consumption because it won’t immediately strike you dead, however does anyone really know the cumulative effects of this and other chemicals on the body? Continue reading Propylene Glycol?!