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12 Items In Your Home That Cause Cancer

Commercial cleaning items– most of commercial products make asthma. Most of them have BPA, parabens, phthalates, triclosan and hormone problems. A better option is baking soda and vinegar to remove bacteria and clean surfaces.
Air freshener– recent studies said the fumes here are worse than cigarettes and make hormonal imbalance, asthma and cancer. Instead of this, use essential oils
Toothpaste– this has chemicals like saccharin and fluoride that make cancer. Both make serious harm and create cancer.
Mothballs– we all use them for the closets and they have naphthalene that makes damages to liver and kidneys, anemia and cancers.
Shampoo– Head and Shoulders is one of them. It has mutagen named methylchloroisothiazolinone and also ammonium laureth sulfate. The items here are good on their own and get tainted by 1.4-dioxane
Deodorants and antiperspirant– many studies say this is bad and make cancer due to the parabens. This mostly causes breast cancer.
Antibacterial soap– they kill bacteria but also have side effects like triclosan causes cancer, puberty issues, infertility and hormone problems.
Tick and flea repellents– these items have fipronil that is in liquid repellents and makes nausea, headache, vomiting, seizure, irritation, fatigue. Also makes cancer.