Response to Aluminum in bathing

Interesting question Doug. I've read quite a bit about not cooking in aluminum, never about anything like this. I suppose you could do a library or web search on cooking with aluminum, and decide if the evidence against aluminum sounds like you should avoid it.

I don't think there would be any problem myself. Ingesting is one thing, absorbing is something entirely different. Plus you're adding soap, a surfactent (sorry about the spelling), which would further discourage any aluminum that did migrate into the water from landing on and being absorbed by the skin. Any open wounds could pick up some, but I don't know that there would be all that much aluminum in the water to begin with. You usually protect that sort of thing anyway. And yes, there are some natural body openings that would be submerged if you're sitting in a tub of water, but they tend to be naturally protected, a very small target for a very small amount of aluminum in a large amount of water, and I'd think at least some of the aluminum would be removed by, well, using those parts. Remember, ingestion and absorption are different. Gerbil

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