The Pink Stuff: How It Works and Surfaces It Can Hurt – Consumer Reports

One of the main draws for The Pink Stuff is the claim that its 100 percent naturalas in, it is not nearly as harmful as many of the household cleaners out there these days. (Its 100 percent on the website and 99 percent on the jar.) Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) dont disclose everything thats in a product, so we cant vet every ingredient in The Pink Stuff. Only chemicals that are considered hazardous must be listed, so other materials may not appear in the data sheet. CR reached out to Star Brands for comment but received no reply.

It could very well be made of materials you can find in nature, but the term natural only conveys emotion, no meaningful, scientific, standardized definition of the properties of the contents, Dickerson says. It reads like a marketing play to address peoples concerns for safe cleaning products.

As with foods, its important to keep in mind that natural ingredients arent necessarily safer than synthetic chemicals. Natural ingredients can be allergens, and under U.S. regulations, fragrance ingredients dont need to be disclosed even though some can be irritants.

For what its worth, one of the ingredients in The Pink Stuff is perfume. But the subtle floral scent didnt bother me, unlike many noxious cleaning products Ive tried, abrasive or otherwise.

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