Dressed to Kill: American Clothing Is Big Chem’s Favorite Playground | Hannah Dunning

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · Mar 27, 2026 · 1h 39m

We check our food labels. We filter our water. We obsess over skincare ingredients… but what about the clothes we wear every single day?

In this episode—one of my all-time favorite conversations I’ve ever recorded and one that truly blew my mind—I sit down with Hannah Dunning (aka The Clean Clothing Chick), who’s been deep in the research uncovering what’s actually in our clothing. We’re talking synthetic fabrics like polyester, chemical treatments, formaldehyde, lead, and forever chemicals—and asking a pretty big question: what are we actually putting directly against our skin for 12+ hours…