Podcast #4 - Focus Friday Ingredients Series: What are Phthalates?

10/21/22 • 13 min

Welcome to Focus Friday!
Our current series focuses on harmful ingredients found in our everyday products.
Today we do a deep dive into Phthalates.
What are phthalates?
Where are they commonly found?
What are they also known as?
Why are they unsafe for us?

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Eco Mama - Podcast #4 - Focus Friday Ingredients Series: What are Phthalates?

Transcript

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Happy Friday. Eco mamas. Today, I want to talk to you about Phthalates. It's spelled P H T H a L a T E S. It doesn't sound like it's spelled. It's spelled with a silent pH on the front, but phthalates, is says how you pronounce it properly. Valleys are known as the everywhere. Chemical. Because everywhere you look there. Phthalates is a family of chemicals that are used to make plastic more pliable. It softens the plastic itself. So that it can be mo