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Your clothes could make you sick
No regulations for chemicals added to children's clothing
Some doctors are now warning that what you're wearing could be dangerous to your health -- especially your children. In fact, while there are legal limitations for chemicals in children's toys, there are no regulations for children's clothing. ...........
No regulations for chemicals added to children's clothing
Some doctors are now warning that what you're wearing could be dangerous to your health -- especially your children. In fact, while there are legal limitations for chemicals in children's toys, there are no regulations for children's clothing. ...........
Wear cotton.
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Your clothes could make you sick (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Jun 2016
OP
Sounds like clothes are just like fragrances, which are protected by trade secrets, which means
valerief
Jun 2016
#3
and the dryer sheets used at home - Respiratory toxicity of fabric softener emissions. - NCBI
Viva_La_Revolution
Jun 2016
#4
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)1. Cotton clothes from where?? Source is important
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)2. Nothing New - Ever heard of Poison Green Fabric?
Quilt collectors love to find antique quilts with poison green calico fabric. This distinctive green color was pre-civil war and arsenic was used in the dye process. It would be washed out in the cotton fabrics, but stayed around longer in the woolens as they were seldom cleaned. It was reported that men died after wearing a suit made completely of green fabric.
valerief
(53,235 posts)3. Sounds like clothes are just like fragrances, which are protected by trade secrets, which means
they can put whatever the fuck they want in the fragrances, even outlawed ingredients.
I think fragrances will be the new smoking. Textiles may be added to that.
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)4. and the dryer sheets used at home - Respiratory toxicity of fabric softener emissions. - NCBI
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)5. ....because cotton agriculture is just sooooo environmentally friendly
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_freshwater/freshwater_problems/thirsty_crops/cotton/
Cotton: a water wasting crop
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Because, yeah, fuck their water supplies.
"Greenpeace found that when they retested clothes after washing them more than once, they contained only a fraction or none of the dangerous chemicals."
Yes, let's engage in water-intensive pesticide-intensive agriculture and destroy vast regions of the planet, because we don't ever wash our clothes.
Great plan.
Fascinating how the reporter managed to find someone selling a line of clothing for the report. Just amazing how that happens.
Cotton: a water wasting crop
----
Because, yeah, fuck their water supplies.
"Greenpeace found that when they retested clothes after washing them more than once, they contained only a fraction or none of the dangerous chemicals."
Yes, let's engage in water-intensive pesticide-intensive agriculture and destroy vast regions of the planet, because we don't ever wash our clothes.
Great plan.
Fascinating how the reporter managed to find someone selling a line of clothing for the report. Just amazing how that happens.