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The balls, slightly smaller than ping-pong balls and two-toned like fishing bobbers, contain a powdered chemical that reacts with glycol antifreeze to generate flames about 30 seconds after the machine injects that substance.
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Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2024
To avoid it, scan ingredient lists for toluene sulfonamide/formaldehyde resin, formalin, and methylene glycol – all ingredients that indicate formaldehyde is either in the formula or released by the formula.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Jan. 2024
Brazilian blowout products are often marketed as formaldehyde-free, but Baum tested some of them in his lab and found that the methylene glycol emitted relatively high concentrations of formaldehyde.
—Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
The ingredient at work in Brazilian blowouts is methylene glycol, which emits gaseous formaldehyde when heated.
—Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
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Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2024
To avoid it, scan ingredient lists for toluene sulfonamide/formaldehyde resin, formalin, and methylene glycol – all ingredients that indicate formaldehyde is either in the formula or released by the formula.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Jan. 2024
Brazilian blowout products are often marketed as formaldehyde-free, but Baum tested some of them in his lab and found that the methylene glycol emitted relatively high concentrations of formaldehyde.
—Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
The ingredient at work in Brazilian blowouts is methylene glycol, which emits gaseous formaldehyde when heated.
—Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
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“Glycol.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glycol. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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: ethylene glycol
broadly
: a related alcohol containing two hydroxyl groups
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