Are "16 of 27 Ingredients in Tide Pods Also in Pediatric Vaccines"? You Decide

I recently ran across this claim in a mom's group:

I decided to fact-check this claim. I went to Tide's ingredient page for Tide Pods, and the Vaccine Excipient and Media Summary. Here's the visual summary. 

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Here it is in text form, with a bit of additional text.  The little syringe glyph is the original author's way of signifying her claim that the chemical is in vaccines. 

1. water. ( 💉 ) -- in Tide Pods, only in one pediatric vaccine (Rotarix)
2. alcoholethoxy sulfate -- In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
3. linear alkylbenzene sulfonate -- In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
4. propylene glycol ( 💉 ) -- In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
5. citric acid ( 💉) NOT in Tide Pods, NOT in pediatric vaccines.  Citric acid is an ingredient in the BCG vaccine (not routinely given to children in the US) and citric acid monohydrate is in a flu vaccine, Fluad, approved for use in those over 65.
6. sodium hydroxide ( 💉) NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods. IS an ingredient in the rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq, used to balance pH. See   https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/toxic-myths-about-vaccines/
7. borax ( 💉) NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods, and IS NOT an ingredient in vaccines.
8. ethanolamine ( 💉) NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods (monoethanolamine citrate is) NOT an ingredient in vaccines. 
9. ethanol ( 💉) is NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods. It is NOT and ingredient in vaccines. 
10. alcohol sulfate ( 💉) is NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods.  It is NOT an ingredient in any vaccine.
11. polyethyleneimine ethoxylate ( 💉)  in Tide Pods. It is NOT an ingredient in any vaccine.
12. sodium fatty acids ( 💉) are NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods. One or more fatty acid salts are (see list below):. NONE are ingredients in any vaccine.
13. Idiquaternium ethoxysulfate NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
14. protease ( 💉) In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines .
15. diethylene glycol; NOT an ingredient in Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
16. Laureth 9 NOT in Tide Pods. NOT  in vaccines.
17. alkyldimethylamine oxide NOT in Tide Pods.  NOT  in vaccines.
18. fragrance is an ingredient in Tide Pods. It is NOT an ingredient in vaccines.
19. amylase ( 💉) IS  in Tide Pods. It is NOT an ingredient in vaccines.
20. disodium diaminostilbene disulfonate IS  in Tide Pods. It is NOT in vaccines.
21. DTPA ( 💉) NOT in Tide Pods. NOT in vaccines.
22. sodium formate ( 💉) In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
23. calcium formate ( 💉) In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
24. polyethylene glycol 4000 ( 💉) In Tide Pods, NOT in vaccines
25. mannanse is not an ingredient in Tide Pods. mannanase, an enzyme, is. NOT an ingredient in vaccines
26. liquid blue. ( while not this color. Yellow # 5 and lakedye is in vaccines ) 💉 "Colorant" is listed as a Tide Pod ingredient. No pediatric vaccines contain dyes.  Yellow #5 and lake dye are in the adenovirus vaccine, which is only authorized for at-risk military personnel.
27. dimethicone NOT  in Tide Pods NOT in  vaccines.

--------- List of Fatty acid salts

• NS SOAP Sodium soap of partially hydrogenated tallow fatty acid: Emulsifier for emulsion polymerization of synthetic rubber and resin, wetting agent or defoamer for wettable powder
• SS-40N Sodium soap of stearic acid : Emulsifier for emulsion polymerization of synthetic rubber and resin
• KS SOAP Potassium soap of partially hydrogenated tallow fatty acid: Emulsifier for emulsion polymerization of synthetic rubber and resin.
• OS SOAP Hydrogenated tallow fatty acid: Emulsifier for emulsion polymerization of synthetic rubber and resin
• FR-14 Potassium soap of oleic acid: Foaming agent for foam rubber
• FR-25 Potassium soap of castor oil: Foaming agent for foam rubber
• ICTEOL K-50 Potassium oleate: Laundry detergents as adjuvant to reduce foaming and aid in hardness removal.

Source: https://chemical.kao.com/sg/products/class/c020706.html

The claim arose I believe at the beginning of 2018, but it's been repeated just now in another group:

I decided to look at the claim a different way, by comparing what Tide lists as ingredients to ingredients of vaccines published by the CDC.

Then I went to the Pink Book and found the media and excipient list

Then I compared the two

Tide Pod list of ingredients.There are 26 ingredients. only one (water!) is also in vaccines.

This was easy, if a bit time-consuming to debunk. Overall, I feel sorry for the finger-biting mommy pictured above. She is worrying over nothing.

Comments

[IQ]

Very nice rebuttal of quackery and pseudo-scientific bullocks...

There are dedicated websites on vaccination and its impact on a child's intellectual growth and even autism. All based on some numbers from reliable papers to establish credibility and many conspiracy theories to take the reader to certain conclusions. It's very frustrating.