Just about every body product and makeup product on the store shelves contain formaldehyde .. unless organic toothpaste, mouthwash, soap, household cleansers, dry cleaning fluid automotive fluids...you name it ... It is used as a preservative... . the FDA allows it because "conveniently each of those products have been tested by the FDA in extremely minute quantities over very short testing periods and therefore they have found no proof in those studies that formaldehyde added is detrimental to health But ..those minute quantities of.Formaldehyde soaks into the skin, into the bloodstream, settles in the liver, where it compounds, and remains forever...it does not leave the system .. and it causes liver cancer .. and other cancers. Environmental working group has a website that tells which body and makeup products have Formaldehyde and they give them grades... Method is body product that does not contain Formaldehyde, Tom's toothpaste, and Meleauca .... Organic products ...