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Beauty products are full of risky chemicals. I tried to get rid of them.

Beauty products are full of risky chemicals. I tried to get rid of them.

Six years ago, I felt a lump in my breast and felt utterly betrayed by my body. Three exams, two ultrasounds, and one biopsy later, doctors discovered multiple benign breast tumors that will require a lifetime of monitoring. Lumps like mine seem to show up in people whose breast tissue is sensitive to the hormone estrogen. I was 21 and …

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