Dr. Aly Cohen
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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certainly, you know, use groups like Environmental Working Group, their Skin Deep database, Clearia app, Yuka app, Think Dirty app. They often use a lot of the same databases, which is great, but they're all usable in their own way and really just very accessible. I do this with high school students. I
toss all these products to the kids and they download the Skin Deep database and they look at those numbers themselves, the ratings, they look at what the ingredients are and they look at different options for themselves to choose. And I actually make my son do this in order to get any products that he wants to buy.
I mean, it's really kind of insane. And listen, you know, as a mom, people might think that my house is like, you know, a prison of only healthy products. But, you know, in real life, as with everything, you have to be flexible. And so when my son, one of them, he likes more cologne than the other, and he walks through the kitchen to go out to school...
I mean, it's like I can't even stand the stink in the kitchen. They're petting the dog and the cat. They now stink. And it doesn't even wear off because, again, those psalates are doing their job. Now, I sat down with my son and we did like a little sample sampler of a really non-toxic perfume or cologne. Really, it's kind of like unisex perfume.
you know, odors now, but this is a big thing for these kids. And sure enough, the safe products are just as if, you know, they're wonderful smelling. We picked which ones we liked and we ordered them, but the options are out there and they're getting better and better. So, you know, I really encourage people to think about that because it's something you put on your body.
It's going to last in your home. It's going to potentially end up on your, you know, surfaces and dust. So let's start by what you bring into your home as the starting point for good choices.
I'll tell you, it's real to me. I'm staying in a hotel and the place is pumped with odor. You know, it's pumped with the smell. Some of the most popular retail stores actually are spraying intentionally. It's part of the kind of Disney experience of shopping these days.
So but interestingly enough, in California, under the American Disabilities Act, they stopped putting perfume in magazines where, you know, when you used to get magazines back in the day, They smelled 10 feet away before you even took them home or picked them up out of the mailbox. And that had a lot to do with what you ripped open. You would smell the latest scent that's being marketed.
Turns out that they don't do that anymore because air quality is really a right, right? You don't want to have to be in an office.
And your head is out the window like a dog. I know it's terrible. And it's funny. I take pictures of this sometimes and I open up the window and I can't even breathe. I don't know if they got the memo, but maybe they're watching this podcast. So let's hope.
You know, I would say because of the plethora of them and what we like to use, I'm going to put it at probably D. OK, we're going to throw it on D. Yeah.
Yeah, I would say pretty, pretty toxic. And I will make one extra little tidbit of a point for the young people and anyone listening who gets manicures, pedicures. Thinking about even just your base coat, you know, I bring my base coat if I'm going to get a manicure or pedicure and that's a treat for me because I don't typically do that.
But when I do choose to do that, thinking about the layer that hits your nail and your body is really an important choice and can be done quite easily when you look it up and bring your own. So, you know, these are options to not take away all the fun if that's what you choose. You just have to be smarter and kind of think about things ahead of time.
Yeah, perchloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene.
So I think it starts at choice, you know, buying products or buying clothing that really doesn't require dry cleaning is a really good start. I mean, I've really stopped buying clothes that were super vulnerable to wrinkles if I didn't want to have those in a business space. You know, that's one option.
But I tend to actually you can do steam cleaning, you know, and really talk to your dry cleaner because a lot of times they don't quite understand, you know, what it is to stay away from those chemicals. You know, there's even marketing of organic dry cleaners, which I've never seen that as any legitimate business.
So I'll give you an example of how this is a slippery topic, because I had someone come in to manage mold, and they said, oh, these are all natural sprays. They were convinced of it. These are the people who worked for the company. And even the head of that division I spoke to and she's like, oh, I'll send you the MSDS, which is really the report on the chemical to tell you what it's all about.
Well, it turns out that the active ingredient in this particular mold spray was point zero zero five percent. In terms of the active ingredient, which was claimed to be. safe, right? However, the 99.995% was proprietary inactive on the bottom of the label.
So in other words, again, it's a very slippery area to say anything is safe when most of active ingredients are a very small percentage and most of the inactive ingredients contain some of the worst offenders.
so i can't speak to every business certainly i don't want to bad mouth any company doing it well but i think you have to do a lot of research to see that that's happening did you ever find out what they were using oh yeah i was very upset about it what was it um off the top of my head i remember looking it up and it did have health related issues the
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