Plastic hides in many everyday items, clothing, kitchen utensils, food and beverage containers and even in menstrual products. Menstrual products are used from menarche (approximately 12 years of age) to menopause (approximately 51 years of age). This span of roughly 40 years is a period of time that highlights the active reproductive phase. Vaginal and vulvar tissues have a higher chemical absorption capacity compared to other skin tissues. During fertile life stages, exposu

The first 100% manmade fabric was introduced to the public with great fanfare by the DuPont Corporation at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It was called “nylon” and was touted as a revolutionary replacement for silk in women’s stockings. When nylon stockings were made available to the public at Wilmington, Delaware in October 1939, the first 4,000 pairs sold out in three hours. Demand for this remarkable product increased after nylon stockings became available nationwide i

If you have already adopted many of the recommendations in last month’s blog (Microplastics Detox, Part I, In the Kitchen), you are already well on your way to reducing your family’s exposure to microplastics. But why stop in the kitchen? There are plenty of ways to reduce microplastics and their accompanying “plastic-associated chemicals” in the rest of the house…like the bathroom. Take a look around your bathroom and notice just how many plastic containers hold your per