Johnson's Baby

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies would like to reassure parents that their children’s safety is our utmost priority. For more than 100 years, we have been known as a trusted health care partner, and we value highly the trust that parents place in us.

Phthalates are a large family of compounds used in a wide variety of everyday products.
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies uses only one of the many phthalates—diethylphthalate (DEP) —in some of its personal care products as a component of fragrance preparations. Both the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) Expert Panel, an independent, nonprofit panel of scientists and physicians who assess the safety of personal care product ingredients in the U.S., and the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP), the body that advises the European Union Commission on safety matters related to cosmetics, have determined DEP to be safe as used. DEP has been extensively researched and is not linked to reproductive toxicity or endocrine disruption.

A study recently released in the journal Pediatrics references seven phthalate compounds, yet only DEP is used in baby care products. This suggests that most of the phthalates found in the urine samples came from another route of exposure. The researchers for this study did not test baby care products for the presence of phthalates or control for other possible routes of exposure.