{"id":462,"date":"2017-07-26T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/wp\/?p=462"},"modified":"2017-07-26T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:18:52","slug":"methylisothiazolinone-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/07\/26\/methylisothiazolinone-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"METHYLISOTHIAZOLINONE (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAS# 2682-20-4<\/p>\n<h1>Description:<\/h1>\n<p><strong>METHYLISOTHIAZOLINONE:<\/strong> Methylisothiazolinone (also known as MIT) is a common ingredient often used in cosmetics and beauty products as a preservative. It is a powerful biocide, or &#8220;chemical substance capable of killing living organisms, usually in a selective way.&#8221; Biocides are a general term that includes antimicrobial, germicide, antibiotic, and antifungal. Ultimately, Methylisothiazolinone is used to prevent a wide variety of bacteria and fungi from growing in cosmetics and beauty products, most often in shampoo. It is only approved for use in rinse-off formulas and at low concentrations.<\/p>\n<p>Although many connections are made between Methylisothiazolinone and Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and other conditions, research by CTFA.org and News-Medical.net shows that the concentration levels found in cosmetics and beauty products are so low that there is no risk in using products with this preservative.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Canadian goverrnment revised its Hot List to include additional warnings about this ingredient. Leave on products may no longer be formulated with this ingredient. As of June 2016, children&#8217;s products with this ingredient can no longer be sold in Canada. In August 2016, the European Union banned MIT from leave-on products. Companies selling in the EU have until Febraury 2017 to reformulate products to exclude MIT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cosmetic Function(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preservative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAS# 2682-20-4 Description: METHYLISOTHIAZOLINONE: Methylisothiazolinone (also known as MIT) is a common ingredient often used in cosmetics and beauty products as a preservative. It is a powerful biocide, or &#8220;chemical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[623,629,628,627,631,630,624,625,626],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmedicimports.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}