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Re: lotion
From:
Art Weeks <[log in to unmask]>
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Milk/Casein/Lactose-free list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 02:30:13 -0400
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At 08:10 AM 4/22/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I have a new one for you (at least it is new to me).  We still use baby
>lotion on my daughter, but last night she saw some of my Vaseline Dry Skin
>lotion on the table and used it.  She put it on her face and immediately
>broke out in a rash.  I read the label and it has potasium lactate in it.
> Could this have done it?  I've always read shampoo and bubble bath labels,
>but I guess I have to expand that to anything and everything that comes
>near her.
>
>Kass

Potassium Lactate is not a milk product, but is 'lactic acid' in a salt
form. The reaction was probably due to some other agent in the lotion, such
as the fragrance or lanolin.

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