Indiana

Now that has a pretty weird spelling.

P-H-T-H-A-L-A-T-E-S.

Phthalates.

Now, I'm not a scientist, right?

But I'm pretty confident from what I've read that phthalates, when you heat them up in the plastic that they're a part of, they can kind of release from that plastic and move into something else like the food that's in that container.

And they can definitely, I've seen, I've read that they could be linked to cancer and other problems like that.

So because we don't know what is in our plastic all the time, right, I think it's just a lot safer to microwave food in glass or maybe on a ceramic plate or something like that.

So I will never microwave my food in plastic because

It's like so much work to try to figure out what kind of plastic the container is.

And that's just an easier, better safe than sorry thing for me that I don't have to stress about.

Right.

That's like a very simple choice that I'm not going to be thinking about every day and stressing about.

So, yeah, I microwave my food in glass and I use a candle warmer instead of burning my candles.

So those are two things that I do.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, that's a great question.

And that is something that is worth looking into depending on where you live.

When my husband and I bought our house, as part of our home inspection, the inspectors found that there was a lead water main.

So the connection to the city's water and the pipes that carry the water that we use for drinking and using the bathroom.

into our house, the connector was made of lead.