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Are household cleaning products damaging our health?

Science Weekly · The Guardian · Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:52 GMT

Science Weekly

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Our use of cleaning products has increased since the pandemic, but do we understand what they could be doing to our health? The journalist Rebecca Seal recently wrote for the Guardian about the potential impacts of the many chemicals we now use in our homes. She tells Madeleine Finlay how social media has also played a role in transforming our cleaning habits, why the impact of indoor air pollution is so hard to study, and what the current evidence is that cleaning products may be causing harm. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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