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One of my five year old?s favorite chores around the house is cleaning scuff marks off the walls, doors, and baseboards with either an Easy Eraser pad, or the real deal, a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. I purchased a package of Magic Erasers ages ago when they first came out. I remember reading the box, wondering what the ?Magic? component was that cleaned crayon off my walls with ease. No ingredients were listed and absolutely no warnings were on the box, other than ?Do not ingest.?
My package of the Scotchbrite Easy Erasers didn?t have a warning either and since my child knew not to eat the sponges and keep them out of reach of his little brother and sister, it was a chore I happily let him do.
If I had known that both brands (and others like them) contain a harmful alkaline or ?base? chemical (opposite of acid on the pH scale) that can burn your skin, I never would have let my little boy handle them. As you can see from the picture, when the Scotchbrite Easy Eraser was rubbed against his face and chin, he received severe chemical burns. (Update: the products are abrasive and his wounds today look more like skinned knees than burns. But the Poison Control center confirms that the alkaline nature of the products does indeed cause a chemical burn in addition to scraping the skin.)
At first, I thought he was being dramatic. I picked him up, put him on the counter top and washed his face with soap and water. He was screaming in pain. I put some lotion on his face - more agony. I had used a Magic Eraser to remove magic marker from my own knuckles a while back and I couldn?t understand why he was suddenly in pain. Then, almost immediately, the large, shiny, blistering red marks started to spread across his cheeks and chin.
I quickly searched Google.com for ?Magic Eraser Burn? and turned up several results. I was shocked. These completely innocent looking white foam sponges can burn you?
sheesh. she uses it once on herself and her small child copies her and rubs his face with it. he gets burns. she gets pissy because box does not say it can do that.
well duh! just because it says magic eraser does not mean it is really magic! it has to have something that causes stuff to be "erased"
stupid fvcking women.
/sniped from blog of some lady
One of my five year old?s favorite chores around the house is cleaning scuff marks off the walls, doors, and baseboards with either an Easy Eraser pad, or the real deal, a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. I purchased a package of Magic Erasers ages ago when they first came out. I remember reading the box, wondering what the ?Magic? component was that cleaned crayon off my walls with ease. No ingredients were listed and absolutely no warnings were on the box, other than ?Do not ingest.?
My package of the Scotchbrite Easy Erasers didn?t have a warning either and since my child knew not to eat the sponges and keep them out of reach of his little brother and sister, it was a chore I happily let him do.
If I had known that both brands (and others like them) contain a harmful alkaline or ?base? chemical (opposite of acid on the pH scale) that can burn your skin, I never would have let my little boy handle them. As you can see from the picture, when the Scotchbrite Easy Eraser was rubbed against his face and chin, he received severe chemical burns. (Update: the products are abrasive and his wounds today look more like skinned knees than burns. But the Poison Control center confirms that the alkaline nature of the products does indeed cause a chemical burn in addition to scraping the skin.)
At first, I thought he was being dramatic. I picked him up, put him on the counter top and washed his face with soap and water. He was screaming in pain. I put some lotion on his face - more agony. I had used a Magic Eraser to remove magic marker from my own knuckles a while back and I couldn?t understand why he was suddenly in pain. Then, almost immediately, the large, shiny, blistering red marks started to spread across his cheeks and chin.
I quickly searched Google.com for ?Magic Eraser Burn? and turned up several results. I was shocked. These completely innocent looking white foam sponges can burn you?
sheesh. she uses it once on herself and her small child copies her and rubs his face with it. he gets burns. she gets pissy because box does not say it can do that.
well duh! just because it says magic eraser does not mean it is really magic! it has to have something that causes stuff to be "erased"
stupid fvcking women.
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