I heard there are possible health concerns with carrageenan, which is used in the Hair Gel, should I be concern?
Food-grade carrageenan is a purified extract from red seaweed (Chondrus crispus). It is used as a thickener and stabilizer in a wide range of food and cosmetic products. There is some confusion about carrageenan which has cast an unfortunate light on the ingredient. Recently, several websites have labelled carrageenan as dangerous, saying it can cause cancer in humans. These studies, however, have not used the type of carrageenan used in foods, they used Poligeenan. While Poligeenan has shown unfavourable health effects in studies, food-grade carrageenan has no known toxicity or carcinogenicity and is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) by the US Food & Drug Administration. Poligeenan is a chemically degraded derivative of carrageenan which is used for industrial (non-food) purposes. Degraded carrageenan (Poligeenan) is not approved for use in food products and does not posses the thickening or stabilizing properties of carrageenan, it was improperly named “degraded carrageenan” and fo
