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Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick

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The Dangers of Toxic Clothing

There is a California-based nonprofit that tests different consumer products. When you sweat, that can draw whatever is in your clothing out onto your skin and then it can be absorbed into your skin. Outdoor gear can have that classic chemicals I mentioned, the forever chemicals PFAS. There are printed products. If you get a t-shirt that has a plastic-y logo on the front, that can be really toxic. So, synthetics, saturated colors, performances, all the different layers that are put on things to sell them at a markup to us.

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