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Don't Spend Too Much Time in Your Shower You Might Get Sick
Posted on June 14, 2008
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing environmental health harms caused by chemical threats, recently released a report stating that shower curtains made with PVC contain numerous harmful chemicals including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), phthalates (think CA toys), and organotins. These ubiquitous shower curtains are likely to have adverse effects on the nervous, respiratory and reproductive systems.I don't have enough hands to count the number of those shower curtains I've used in my brief 23 years, but it's a lot. I'm happy to sa...
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