Seventy Years of Washing Our Clothes — Have We Turned Ourselves Into the World’s Biggest Chemical Guinea Pigs?
From a box of soap powder to a chemical cocktail in every wash. Seven decades of cleaner clothes, sweeter smells and a bloody enormous experiment nobody remembers volunteering for. There was a time when washing your clothes was a fairly straightforward business. You got them dirty, you washed them, you dried them, and you put…