How environmentally friendly are 'eco' bath and cleaning products?
ABCWhen you lather up your locks in the shower, or blast the mucky kitchen bench with antibacterial spray, the chemicals in those common household products eventually make their way down the drain and into the environment. And even if the "eco" marketing does relate to the contents, there are still compounds that companies don't have to disclose at all — like fragrances. "They become aware of one chemical that's a problem and then we start banning that from products, but we still want the product to function in exactly the same way," Ms Wakefield-Rann said. Ms Wakefield-Rann says that this problem in the industry is so ubiquitous that it has its own name — "regrettable substitution" — and that it highlights the need to look at broader classes of chemicals, not individual compounds, when it comes to labelling and regulating. "We've come to expect all of these things," Ms Wakefield-Rann said, but the bubbles and lather aren't contributing to cleaning at all.
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