During the last couple of years we’ve seen a lot of research validating what Canaries (people with chemical sensitivities) have been telling everyone for years: Everyday laundry products contain harmful toxic chemicals!
see: Toxic Chemicals in Fragranced Laundry Products and Health Effects
Below are links to articles and independently done (and funded) published research that show SOME (not all) of the toxic chemicals in conventional, everyday laundry products. Chemicals we have 24/7 contact with, because not all of them get rinsed out of clothing and bedding… Chemicals that get washed down our drains and into waterways, and don’t get adequately filtered out of our drinking water… Chemicals that if your municipality sells sewage sludge, then also get spread onto farmers fields as fertilizer (for food you buy and eat from the supermarket)… Chemicals that get blown off laundry lines or pumped out of dryer vents (that were only designed to emit moisture) off your property and into the surrounding neighbourhood air for everyone else to breathe…
Note that even the “natural” and fragrance-free products can contain toxic chemicals, because the industry is not regulated and they can say and do pretty much what they want.
Links updated October 24, 2015.
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