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“We ladies have to take care of ourselves,” says a soft voiceover in an opening scene of Toxic Beauty, Phyllis Ellis’ documentary on the dangers of unregulated personal care products.

The words come from Jacqueline Fox. The 62-year-old woman from Birmingham, Alabama, died in 2015 from ovarian cancer, which she believed had been caused by her decades-long use of Johnson & Johnson talcum powder. 

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