Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
California Safe Cosmetics Program, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USA.
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2023 Mar;33(2):292-300. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00404-7. Epub 2021 Dec 24.
Personal care products may contain many chemicals, some of which are suspected endocrine disrupters. This is an important source of chemical exposure for women, but little is known about how chemical exposure differs among different races/ethnicities.
This study examines differences in personal care product use among Black, Latina, Vietnamese, Mixed Race, and White women in California.
We used a community-based participatory process to create and administer a personal care product usage survey to 321 Black, Latina, Vietnamese, Mixed Race, and White women. We used multivariate regression models with pairwise comparisons to examine the frequency of product use by race/ethnicity.
We found distinct trends of personal care product use by race/ethnicity: Latina women typically used makeup most frequently; Black women used certain hair products or styles most frequently; and Vietnamese women were most likely to use facial cleansing products compared to other races/ethnicities. Latina and Vietnamese women were less likely to try to avoid certain ingredients in their products.
These findings can help estimate disparities in chemical exposure from personal care product use and complement future research on health inequities due to chemical exposures in the larger environmental and social context.
个人护理产品可能含有许多化学物质，其中一些被怀疑是内分泌干扰物。这是女性接触化学物质的一个重要来源，但对于不同种族/族裔之间的化学物质暴露差异知之甚少。
本研究旨在研究加利福尼亚州的黑种人、拉丁裔、越南裔、混血和白种女性在个人护理产品使用方面的差异。
我们使用基于社区的参与式过程，向 321 名黑种人、拉丁裔、越南裔、混血和白种女性发放并管理个人护理产品使用情况调查问卷。我们使用多元回归模型和两两比较来检查种族/族裔之间产品使用的频率。
我们发现个人护理产品使用存在明显的种族/族裔差异：拉丁裔女性通常最频繁地使用化妆品；黑种女性最常使用某些头发产品或发型；与其他种族/族裔相比，越南裔女性最有可能使用面部清洁产品。拉丁裔和越南裔女性不太可能试图避免产品中的某些成分。
这些发现有助于估计因个人护理产品使用而导致的化学物质暴露差异，并补充未来在更大的环境和社会背景下因化学物质暴露导致健康不平等的研究。
