Hutchinson: ‘All natural’ means all natural

By Randy Hutchinson, Guest Columnist Updated: December 01, 2018 11:00 AM CT | Published: November 30, 2018 9:20 PM CT

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Randy Hutchinson is the President and CEO of the BBB of the Mid-South, serving 28 counties in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas. He graduated from Western Maryland College and has an MBA from Wilmington College.

Even if you’re not a chemist, you’ll probably surmise that butyloctyl salicylate and polyquaternium-37 are not naturally occurring substances. Yet they and other synthetic ingredients with similarly difficult-to-pronounce names were contained in products marketed as “all natural” or “100 percent natural.”

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