Pregnancy & Periods
Pregnancy increases skin permeability. Period products made with chlorine-bleached cotton deliver dioxin residue to mucosal tissue for days each month, for decades. This collection addresses three distinct physiological contexts that conventional personal care has largely ignored.
Pregnancy increases dermal permeability — the hormonal changes that allow skin to stretch also alter the tight junctions in the stratum corneum, increasing transdermal absorption. Phthalates — used as fragrance fixatives and labelled only as "fragrance" — have been detected in cord blood and associated with altered sex hormone levels in male neonates in multiple epidemiological studies.
Conventional period pads deliver chlorine bleach dioxins to one of the most absorptive mucosal surfaces of the body for several days per month, for decades of a woman's life. Most period products have never been independently safety assessed. The alternatives are not meaningfully more expensive.
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