Besides the beauty and personal hygiene products you directly apply to your skin, the chemicals in the cleaning products in your home, whether it’s the bleach you use to clean your bathroom, the liquid soap to wash your dishes, or the scrub for your tub, make their way through your skin and into your body. As I mentioned previously, these chemicals are endocrine disruptors—hello, hormone imbalance!—and carcinogens, but they also have been shown to contribute to diabetes and obesity by directly affecting the metabolism of your thyroid hormone and binding to your receptors.
