Good for You, Good for Our Earth

Often when you hear about the Dirty Dozen, it relates to the top 12 fruits or vegetables that have high pestiside residue. The David Suzuki Foundation has just come out with a new dirty dozen list, pertaining to personal care products. These products contain industrial chemicals including carcinogens, pesticides, reproductive toxins, endocrine disruptors, plasticizers, degreasers, and surfactants. The products not only affect your health directly, they affect us indirectly when they wash away our dirt.. the chemicals also wash down the drain, making there way into our food (fish) and water systems!

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