Health

Do Pink Ribbons Cause Cancer?

Then I learned why: it is cheap to use toxic petrochemicals, and expensive to reformulate products so they aren’t toxic. Removing a carcinogen or hormone disruptor from a shampoo, or fragrance, or pajamas, or lipstick, or laundry detergent, and replacing it with a safer chemical is expensive. “Too expensive,” say the manufacturers, and so far, our federal government hasn’t found a way to force them to take out the toxins.