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Allison Evans

👤 Speaker
986 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

And our skin is our largest organ.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

And whatever touches our skin becomes systemically available throughout the whole body.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

You know, we think, oh, it's our largest organ, but it must just kind of stay surface.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

It doesn't.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

And so then our body has to literally sequester these toxic chemicals from our blood into our fat cells in order to prevent them from affecting vital organs.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

So sometimes when people change out their laundry, this is going to sound crazy, they lose weight.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

because these detergents are metabolic disruptors.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

And so they literally will create fat cells in our body in order to sequester away from other things.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

So I mean, they're endocrine disruptors, they are obesogens, they're asthmagens, they're allergens, they're skin irritants.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

There's no reason to use toxic laundry detergent.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

There's no reason that our laundry needs to smell.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

We're just trying to get rid of the odors.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

So if you want to add a smell somewhere, I highly recommend it not be through conventional detergents.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

Or even when you're on a hike, you're outside and you pass by a group of hikers and you're like, whoa, you know, or you go back to your parents' house after having lived on your own and using your own, you know, cleaner detergent.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

And you're like, how did I grow up in this house?

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

Like smelling this my entire life.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

I didn't even notice it until now, you know?

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

Yeah.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

Oh, I had all the balms at the Galleria in Houston.

Dhru Purohit Show
What’s in Your Home Air, Water & Products? The Changes Worth Making to Lower Your Toxic Burden with Allison Evans

I mean, I can smell the like fuchsia right now or whatever the top, you know, smells are.