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Some phtalates are a bad idea even at lower concentrations -- and not allowed in most uses. | |||
Other phtalates are not a bad idea at functionally useful levels. | |||
You can be unusually sensitive to the stuff, in which case obviously avoid it. | |||
Yet if you're not sensitive to the stuff, then there is not that much reason to weigh it more heavily than, say, the pesticides on unwashed vegetables. | Yet if you're not sensitive to the stuff, | ||
then there is not that much reason to weigh it more heavily than, say, the pesticides on unwashed vegetables. | |||
There is a link to the endocrine system, so it could mess with your hormone regulation | |||
which can have no end of implications, apparently including growth in early development. | |||
That should require higher amounts than you'll generally find ''but'' it ''is'' hard to be sure about any given product (particularly if produced in the "we are too prudish to acknowledge sex toys can exist therefore we don't regulate them either"), so even if ''most'' are fine, the easiest way to avoid possible issues is to avoid the material. | |||
Revision as of 03:02, 30 September 2023
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BIG RED TEXT HELLO: This is not health advice, or necessarily correct. Do not make health decisions based on just this. Do your own research, and not just the stuff that agrees with your opinions.
But first
Everything is chemicals, and everything is toxic at high concentrations
Toxin, poison, venom
Some things worth talking about
Pesticides
BPA
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Phtalates
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PFAS
PFOA
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