The original poster wrote: Many bras contain volatile organic compounds (VOC) such as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, toluene, and benzene. Over 80% of bra padding is made from polyurethane foam, a petroleum product. Breast tissue is highly sensitive to these toxic chemicals, and breast tissue samples reveal high levels of them.
A friend commented: I rejected these ridiculous devices back in my early 20’s – same time I ditched commercially marketed deodorant – just intuitively knew how awful they both were for my health and well being.
Please consider alternatives for yourself.
How do women STILL make the choice to bind their breasts, deprive them of blood supply, suffocate them with carcinogens, wire them with conductive metals, poison them daily, and irradiate them regularly – such tragic madness. And then the fact that most people STILL don’t understand the reasons/roots of the breast cancer epidemic shows just how terribly deeply asleep, and frankly cognitively compromised and corporately conditioned most people are… …take back your power girls.
(Tom: And the French (who else) studied breast droop with age and found non-bra wearers better off by a centimetre! Keep ’em perky girls, ditch the pesky things.)