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"flooding your body" with tiny amounts of a chemical well below safety limits and for relatively short periods of time.
Idk about that companies that use toxic stuff always deny its toxic, then if forced to admit it's toxic say it is in amounts too small to affect you.
I certainly would not take their word for it or people they pay to say so.
It has real effects on coral reefs and other areas where people swim and have it wash off in. And there are a range of endocrine disruptors in lots of goods that do have real effects on people even if not quite noticeable. Amphibians are particularly sensitive to them and can wipe out populations in the low parts per billions.
Everything is toxic, in amounts that are enough to harm you. We tend to use everything in amounts lower than what typically harms you though.
Things that are toxic are generally intrinsically harmful. Like arsenic, endocrine disruptors, like pesticides. Little amounts are bad for you and create harm. Like getting a few parts per billion of pfas is bad for you.
Things that are not toxic will generally not harm you in low doses. Like water you can overdose on water, but it is not toxic.
Your point here seems to be lacking unless I am missing it?
You stated "companies that use toxic stuff always deny its toxic, then if forced to admit it's toxic say it is in amounts too small to affect you"
If someone died from drinking too much water, nestle would also be forced to admit that water is dangerous, but it's safe to consume in amounts too small to affect you.
There's lots of stuff that is toxic but perfectly safe to consume in small doses. Tylenol, aspirin, etc. pretty much any medication, Numerous foods, etc.
What are you talking about and what is your purported point here? You are denying toxic chemicals are toxic?
Conflating things like Tylenol with things like pfas, endocrine disruptors, BPA, pesticides?
And people claim stuff is toxic when it isn't. This is how you end up with an anti-vaxer in charge of health policies.
If only there were some process we had that could help determine the truth without trusting individual sources.
That is preposterous equating all of the toxic shit in everything we use with anti-vaxxers. You must really not know what the fuck is going on.
Vapid fear mongering and scare words aren't a substitute for evidence.
There is plenty of evidence after you exit the backside of the manufacturers of these chemicals. Warm and safe though it may seem up there, there is no future travelling further in.
The solution to pollution is dilution!
humans: there's over 8 billion of us now.
Omg but no it's chemicals!