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New product screening data from the Campaign for Healthier Solutions highlights dollar store personal care and household products that openly list ingredients linked to health harms, including endocrine disruption, reproductive harm, and cancer. Six out of 78 products screened listed chemicals that are prohibited in cosmetics in at least one U.S. state, now or starting in 2027, including PFAS, formaldehyde releasers, toluene and lilial. “Dollar stores need to get ahead on compliance,” said José Bravo, National Coordinator of the Campaign for Healthier Solutions. “Our product screening initiative shows it’s not that hard to find a banned ingredient openly listed on product labels in the dollar store beauty aisle.” California bans intentionally-added PFAS in cosmetic products, which include products applied to the human body for cleansing and beautifying. A “Bling Bubbles Razz-Fizz Scented Purify & Detoxify Bubbling Face Mask”  sold at a Dollar Tree in Coachella, California in July 2026 listed “methyl perfluoroisobutyl ether” in its ingredients, which is a PFAS chemical according to California law. 

This year, Dollar Tree published an expanded Chemical Management Policy that commits to restrict more harmful chemicals in key private-label product categories, including food packaging, children’s products, and formulated products such as  beauty, personal care and household cleaning products. “We applaud Dollar Tree’s efforts to eliminate chemicals linked to endocrine disruption, learning disabilities, cancer and reproductive harm from its shelves,” said José Bravo, Coordinator of the Campaign for Healthier Solutions. “Families deserve safe products and healthy food no matter where they shop.”

“The fatal and shocking incidents communities have faced in recent days demonstrate the urgent need to implement and build on existing regulatory safeguards so communities near chemical facilities are protected from chemical disasters. But, instead of protecting workers and families from death, injury, and illness, Trump’s EPA is putting communities at greater risk of harm by weakening the nation’s primary defense against chemical facility incidents. The Risk Management Program (RMP) protects against catastrophic industrial chemical releases, fires, and explosions through preventative safety measures. The Trump administration is attempting to weaken this rule. Every chemical incident, every life lost, and every evacuation is one too many. Each chemical emergency makes clear the need to strengthen, not dismantle, protections against chemical disasters before more workers, families, and communities are harmed.”