The sharks, especially when they're on the attack, look like nothing so much as
plastic bath toys of a decidedly inferior quality desperately fighting against the swirling vortex created when the tub's plug is pulled.
An Eawag study has now revealed the «dark side» of flexible
plastic bath toys.
If you're anything like my family, you had about 30 or 40 little
plastic bath toys floating around your bath tub.
Yes, we're inundated by
the plastic bath toys at the store, aren't we?
Throw them in, along with the BPA found in most
plastic bath toys, and the toxins are sure to leach their way into the hot water.
Not exact matches
We would show our baby brightly coloured
plastic toys (
bath toys worked well) before burying them in his sandpit.
So we took our small
plastic «laundry» tub and filled it with ocean water and some sand, and gave her some
bath toys to play with.
Look For: Rubber
bath toys, Wooden
toys or
plastic toys that explicitly list the absence of Phthalates.
Many
bath toys, especially hollow
toys made of
plastic or rubber, are susceptible to mold growth.
For a young toddler, I like small
plastic animals or
bath toys.
Infant rattles,
plastic blocks, large
plastic pegs,
plastic shape sorter pieces and some
bath toys can be placed on the top rack of the dishwasher.
Take
bath toys, cups and
plastic bowls for younger children so they'll stay in one spot.
Letting your tot take charge of the watering can to help soak the pots on a patio or filling a
plastic tub with water and throwing in a few
bath toys only needs minimal space, while a lawn and a little more room is great for setting up a hose and sprinkler.
The ban on phthalate makes California the first state to impose severe limits on a chemical that is widely used in baby bottles, soft baby books, teething rings,
plastic bath ducks and other
toys, said Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D - San Francisco), the bill's author.
«
Bath toys pose an interesting link between flexible
plastic materials, potable water, external microbial and nutrient contamination, and potentially vulnerable end - users.
duckies and other
bath toys are made out of
plastic.
Well, one advantage to replacing the Cheap
Plastic Crap
bath toys with phthalate - free
bath toys, is that they're so much more expensive, you won't have a boatload of them invading your house!
At
bath time, a folded up towel works well as a cushion for washing your baby in the bathtub; for older children, the
plastic cups provided in most hotel rooms make terrific
bath toys and preclude the need for you to pack those.
Simple things like blocks, floating
bath toys, your own pots and pans or empty
plastic containers, often make the best
toys.
But, these chemicals are still used in manufacturing squeezy
toys, soft
plastic toys and the
bath toys.
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