Jonnsons Aloe Vera Baby Wipes

[fifer]

My partner noticed that the above mentioed wipe contain LACTIC ACID

[Pam]

Unfortunately there are lots of household products that contain milk and you wouldn't even think about it. Soap is often a culprit and washing powder can be risky too. The Vegan Shopper (Animal Free Shopper), a book by the Vegan Society has lists of safe products as vegans avoid anything that contains any animal products including dairy.

[fifer]

Found this on another website

lactic acid
Related: Organic Chemistry

CH 3 CHOHCO 2 H, a colorless liquid organic acid. It is miscible with water or ethanol. Lactic acid is a fermentation product of lactose (milk sugar); it is present in sour milk, koumiss, leban, yogurt, and cottage cheese. The protein in milk is coagulated (curdled) by lactic acid. Lactic acid is produced in the muscles during intense activity. Calcium lactate, a soluble lactic acid salt, is used as a source of calcium in the diet. Lactic acid is produced commercially for use in pharmaceuticals and foods, in leather tanning and textile dyeing, and in making plastics, solvents, inks, and lacquers. Although it can be prepared by chemical synthesis, production of lactic acid by fermentation of glucose and other substances is a less expensive method. Chemically, lactic acid occurs as two optical isomers , a dextro and a levo form; only the levo form takes part in animal metabolism. The lactic acid of commerce is usually an optically inactive racemic mixture of the two isomers.


Make sence to any one?

[Copper]

Yes sadly it makes sense to me :)

In a nutshell lactic acid is found as a natural product after sugar has been fermented. So lactose (sugar in milk) can be fermented to give lactic acid.

Do you remember the last time you ran for the bus and got cramp? :) Well this was due to lactic acid! There is a complex sugar in our bodies called glycogen and when we work our bodies hard eg running, we need energy and to try and keep up with this demand our body breaks down the glycogen and lactic acid is formed. Everything in our bodies should be finely balanced and the lactic acid would be changed to something else but as "we are running" and demanding more energy it all gets out of balance and the lactic acid stays in our muscles and gives us cramp - ouch!

Now speaking as somebody who is lactose intolerant I don't feel the need to panic if I find lactic acid used as a preservative in my food. After all my problem is a lack of the enzyme lactase which breaks down the lactose. Lactic acid is a totally different "chemical" so I don't see why it should make me ill.

We also have no idea where the lactic was sourced as it can be produced from sugars other than lactose.

There bet you are sorry that you asked! ;)