Comments on: Know Your Ingredients: Diazolidinyl Urea

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:00:44 +0000

Feyda Fauzan, I’m glad this helped clearing up any doubts. Thanks to Barbara too .

By: Feyda Fauzan

Feyda Fauzan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:30:17 +0000

thanks barbara for bringing up this matter as i’m having the same confusion too

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:50:25 +0000

You’re welcome Barbara. There is a lot of confusion on this topic because some ingredients, like Urea, are components of urine. But in cosmetics, synthetic versions are used. You can tell your clients not too worry, they won’t be putting urine on their faces.

By: Barbara Gunter

Barbara Gunter — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:14:16 +0000

Thanks for fast reply. I work in retail and a gentleman customer refused to buy a hand softener because of this ingredient thinking it a derivative of urine. He piqued my interest. the websites I checked were not clear on the source either.

By: beautifulwithbrains

beautifulwithbrains — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:46:39 +0000

Hi Barbara, diazolidinyl urea can be derived both from animal or synthetic sources. However in cosmetics products diazolidinyl urea is made by the reaction of allantoin (a substance derived from the extracts of the comfrey plant) and formaldehyde.