[Rodney King]

They're absorbed into the skin. Plastics are petroleum based, and many petroleum products are used in soaps, shampoos and other household cleaning items. These petroleum derivatives contain chemicals known as aromatic hydrocarbons , which are both readily absorbed by the skin and deposited in the body's fat cells.

So what you are asying is that since some petroleum based products are absorbed into the skin that all petroleum based products are absrobed into the skin? I buy that if you took these chemicals and used them as a shampoo that they would be absorbed into the skin... but you are claiming that plastic toys somehow get abosrbed into the skin.

[MamaTexan]

So what you are asying is that since some petroleum based products are absorbed into the skin that all petroleum based products are absrobed into the skin?

No. I said the same (or related) petroleum-based chemical compounds used to manufacture plastics are also found in personal care products.

Although some very chemically sensitive people can and will react to chemicals found in toys, car parts, household items, etc., that usually isn't the issue.