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Toxic Tampons? Report Exposes Chemicals Linked to Cancer in Feminine Care Products

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Toxic Chemicals Found in Certain Brands of Tampons, Pads and Other Feminine Care Products

Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) just released a new report [2] which found toxic chemicals linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and allergic reactions in certain brands of tampons, pads, douches, wipes, and sprays.

Not good news since these products come in contact with some of the most absorptive tissue on women’s bodies and many of us use them for a few days every month!

“Feminine care products are not just your average cosmetics, because they are used on an exceptionally sensitive and absorbent part of a woman’s body,” said Alexandra Scranton, WVE’s director of science and research and author of the report. “Greater scrutiny, oversight and research are badly needed to assure the safety of these ingredients for women’s health.”

Toxic Chemicals in Feminine Care Products are Unregulated

The FDA does not require feminine-care product manufacturers  to tell you what’s in their products.

The report, Chem Fatale: Potential Health Effects of Toxic Chemicals in Feminine Care Products,  examines unregulated toxic chemicals in feminine care products that may result in serious health problems, like increased risk of breast cancer, reproductive problems, asthma, and allergic reactions. Chemicals of concern commonly used in feminine care products include cancer-causing chemicals, reproductive toxins, hormone disruptors, and allergens.

Some shocking highlights of the report:

How to Reduce Your Risk of Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in Tampons and Other Feminine Care Products

Take Action: Ask Procter & Gamble to Disclose Ingredients

We have a right to know what’s in the products we use in and on our bodies. Feminine care products aren’t things we like to discuss on a regular basis, but we need to talk about this so they get the attention and scrutiny they deserve to assure their safety for women’s health.

Toxic chemicals have no place in feminine care products. Period. And it’s time to do something about it.

Join me in asking Procter & Gamble, makers of Tampax tampons and Always pads, to disclose the ingredients in those products and remove toxic chemicals linked to women’s health problems by signing HERE [8].

Are you surprised that toxic chemicals were found in some brands of tampons and pads?

 

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