For example, my kids J&J baby wash has ingredients like cocamidopropyl, pentaerythrityl tetrastearate, and ethylhexylglycerine.
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It’s a bit of the dihydrogen monoxide effect going on. They are less names and more descriptions of what exactly it is for anyone who knows the naming formula. It has the unfortunate side-effect of seeming strange, inscrutable and slightly scary to people who *don’t* know the naming formula, even though technically speaking a common name like “water” is significantly more ambiguous to someone who is encountering it for the first time.
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