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Many hair care products marketed particularly to Black women and girls contain chemicals that are endocrine disruptors and thus may interfere with the body’s hormone system. Some of these chemicals are also known to cause asthma or cancer. In this episode, we explore the chemical and cultural issues around Black hair care and interview scientists and activists who are working to ensure that safer products are available.
TO LEARN MORE:
Links to organizations and resources mentioned in this episode:
Black Women for Wellness
Black Women for Wellness Toxic-Free Beauty Pocket Guide
Center for Progressive Reform:
Environmental Working Group Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
BLK + GRN. An all-natural marketplace powered by Black women Artisans
Dove Crown Research Studies on Hair Discrimination
And a new resource as of October 2022: Non-Toxic Black Beauty Database
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In Part 2 of our mini-series on toxic chemicals in cleaning products, we focus on the efforts of organizers, domestic workers and scientists to strive towards safe and healthy working conditions, as well as job security and benefits for those in the cleaning work sector. We speak with an organizer with the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance, a chemical engineer working to ensure that safer chemicals are used in consumer products, and a founder of a worker-owned cleaning coop. All of these solutions combined are helping to ensure that domestic workers are respected and treated with dignity, have safe working conditions, and have a path to build economic security for themselves and their families.
TO LEARN MORE:
Links to organizations mentioned in this episode:
National Domestic Workers Alliance: https://www.domesticworkers.org/
Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/
Safe and Just Cleaners: https://safeandjustcleaners.org/
Women’s Voices for the Earth: https://www.womensvoices.org/
ALIA: https://www.myalia.org/
Toxics Use Reduction Institute: https://www.turi.org/
Brazilian Women’s Group:http://verdeamarelo.org/bwg/
Vida Verde: http://verdeamarelo.org/vidaverde/
Hand in Hand: https://domesticemployers.org/
Resources to identify safer cleaning products:
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice: https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice
US Environmental Protection Agency DFE certified disinfectants:https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-labels/dfe-certified-disinfectants
Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) List of Safer Disinfectant Products: https://www.turi.org/Our_Work/Cleaning_Laboratory/COVID-19_Safely_Clean_Disinfect/Safer_Disinfecting_Products/List_of_Safer_Disinfecting_Products
City of San Francisco - SF Approved cleaning products: https://www.sfapproved.org/cleaners-homes-small-businesses
Green Seal: https://greenseal.org/
EcoLogo: https://www.ul.com/services/ecologo-certification
Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Registry: https://www.c2ccertified.org/products/registry
Environmental Working Group (EWG) Verified™: https://www.ewg.org/ewgverified/cleaning-products.php
Apps:
Clearya: https://www.clearya.com/
Think Dirty: https://thinkdirtyapp.com/
Detox Me: https://silentspring.org/detox-me-app-tips-healthier-living
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The cleaning products in your home are not as safe and healthy as you think — especially for domestic workers who have to use them day in and out! This is Part I of our cleaning products and domestic workers series. Our conversation explores the toxic chemicals in cleaning products, who does most of this country’s cleaning work, why that is, and how domestic work conditions – including the use of unsafe products — have come to be.
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An introduction to the new podcast series, Persistent and Pervasive: Feminists Take on Toxics!
