This is sort of a shower thought because this morning I was using some shaving cream and I thought, if it turns out in 5 years this was giving me cancer, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Comes out a goo, ejected from a can with force, immediately becomes a foam?

Do you have anything you use that you think might be too good to be true?

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Plastic food containers. I mean, we already know it’s pretty bad, but I would not be surprised if it ends up being way worse than we think. That, and most aerosols. Febreze, hairspray, spray tans, things of that nature

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I just saw an article the other day that black plastic utensils are toxic. I’m right there with you.

A couple places near me still use styrofoam. I can’t get past it.

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Because of those articles, I just got rid of my black plastic utensils, but I’ve been using them over a decade so if they were contaminated, it’s probably too late

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It also mostly applies to new plastics which are made from recycled plastics. If you have an ancient one, it’s probably not made from recycled plastic and could be totally fine.

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I stopped microwaving plastic containers like 15-20 years ago. Hopefully that’s enough.

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Yep, I never could get past the taste of plastic in my food.

Only microwave in glass and ceramic!

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Febreze is air pressure driven.

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I think you’re confusing volatile organic compounds like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and HFCFs with general aerosols. CFCs destroy the ozone layer, and are banned worldwide.

Aerosola are just droplets in a gas. Clouds are aerosols. They’re perfectly safe to use in general, assuming the droplets and the gas are safe.

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I get where they’re coming from! I was a kid when the aerosols were burning a hole in the ozone layer, and it taught me to distrust anything that can come out of a can too quickly.

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Clean air act banned cfcs, not aerosols. Aerosols are just pressurized gases.

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Well aerosols are tiny particles, but often created and propelled using pressurized glasses.

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