Do you know how to avoid exposure to hormone-interrupting chemicals?
By olivemai
@olivemai (4738)
United States
May 28, 2008 5:28pm CST
Here is a website with a cheatsheet on how to avoid phthalates!
http://www.enviroblog.org/2008/05/cheatsheet-phthalates.htm
That is the word for hormone-interrupting chemicals! These chemicals hurt us in more ways than you can imagine! What do you do to stay safe?
4 responses
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
29 May 08
That is a good site. Thanks for sharing. They do have some new water-based nail polishes out that are not as nasty-smelling, and probably safer too, but until recently the best price I had seen was $18 a bottle and if that isn't bad enough, the remover cost even more and then there was shipping. But now I see that Sanctuary Botanicals has the phthalate-free polish at a slightly more reasonable price:
http://www.sanctuarybotanicals.com/site/926474/page/828405
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@olivemai (4738)
• United States
29 May 08
So for 18 dollars or for eleven dollars, it is worth it to be safer! It will last a long time, as any bottle of nail polish usually lasts a year or more! I guess it depends on how often you do your nails! Thanks for the website, I saved it and will use it as gifts for those people that use make up and nail polish!
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
28 May 08
I lived on a sailboat for 20 years and everything I have in dishes and cooking pots is unlined stainless steel. The only thing you put in plastic was your clean clothes to keep them from getting wet and mildewing lol.
I now live ashore due to illness and I still live the same way except for the clothes in plastic. I guess I do not have too many of those phthalates in me. I think someone is trying to slowly cut the population down what do you think?
Shalom~Adoniah
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