Many very cheap substandard clothes exist because they contain a primary carcinogen-formaldehyde. Adding formaldehyde to clothes can help prevent clothes from shrinking and wrinkling, prevent color fading and prevent printing from falling off, which will make clothes look more gorgeous and beautiful.

However, if the concentration of formaldehyde is too high, it will have a great negative impact on health, even more serious, and long-term exposure may lead to leukemia. CCTV has exposed this kind of clothes, and it is mentioned in the quality inspection report that the formaldehyde in baby clothes exceeds the standard, which may lead to allergies and even cancer.

Prevent wearing cancer-causing clothes

There are many brightly colored or printed clothes, which probably contain a lot of formaldehyde, because formaldehyde plays a role in preventing discoloration and maintaining the durability of printing. Therefore, for the sake of children's health, parents should try their best to buy their children clothes in solid or light colors or with few prints. Some parents worry that wearing light clothes for their children is too easy to get dirty, so they buy dark clothes for their children. In fact, in front of health, cleanliness is not worth mentioning.

It is normal that new clothes that have just left the factory usually smell. However, clothes with pungent smell, even those with choking nose, should be avoided as far as possible, because they may contain a lot of formaldehyde. Generally, when you go to a physical store, the merchant will use perfume or other things to remove the smell on the clothes, or the smell on the clothes has disappeared after a long time. You can ask the merchant to take out an unopened new dress and open it to smell if there is a pungent smell.