Want to avoid petroleum and its byproducts? Look out for these ingredients

By: Ruth Hartnup

Most people don’t know it, but petroleum by-products can be found in a lot of the products we use in our daily lives. While you might be thinking these types of ingredients are mostly found in topical beauty and personal care products, industrial types of products like fuel, styrofoam and plastics, they actually are often found in our food products as well. This is especially true of processed foods (no surprise there).

These byproducts are simply offshoots of petroleum that are created by chemical breakdown processes. Often times they can be contaminated with the volatile chemicals used to process them, and …read more