Why do tampons have so many bad chemicals in them if they are just a piece of cotton?

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Could they not just made chemical free?

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Cotton is a natural fiber. Cotton plants grown in contaminated soil can uptake (some of) those contaminants, some of which may end up in the cotton itself.

Additionally, contaminants may be introduced during processing. But I think most of the recent news about heavy metals is from the cotton fiber itself, not the processing.

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