What in Your Laundry Room Silently Makes You Sick?

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What in Your Laundry Room Silently Makes You Sick?
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Imagine slathering your skin with a mixture of petroleum byproducts, synthetic fragrances, and hormone-disrupting chemicals. Sounds alarming? That’s precisely what’s happening every time you wear clothes washed in most commercial detergents. These formulas don’t fully rinse away; instead, they cling tenaciously to fabrics, maintaining constant contact with your skin—the body’s largest organ—and even evaporating into the air you breathe.