...i'm not speaking to health, only the vernacular meaning of 'chemical' ingredients...
myrrh
...stateside standard for private-sector salaried positions is ten working days per year (combined illness/vacation) which begin accruing after a six-month probationary period; some employers increase that to fifteen or twenty days for long-tenured staff after several / many years of continuous employment, but it varies...
...for hourly positions, you're paid only for actual hours worked...
...government positions tend to be much more generous with holidays, vacation, and sick leave, although compensation is typically lower than the private sector; large corporations often fall somewhere between those two extremes...
...we did stateside, too, before shoot-first-qualified-immunity paranoia ran rampant through law enforcement culture...
...my cars are named mehve, pejitei gunship, teto, and ohmu after aircraft and creatures from nausicäa of the valley of wind...
...chaosium and palladium both beat steve jackson there by several years, too...
...well, i mean, who really wants an enchanter tossing fireballs across the rose garden?..
...in the context of processed foods, i've always considered 'chemicals' synonymous with industrially synthesised ingredients, by contrast to naturally-occurring foodstuffs...
...none of the people in that image would have been considered white when i was growing up...
…same rules apply to dishcloths…
...scotchbrite pads generally won't scuff aluminum cookware, but stainless steel mesh works well on steel, iron, and glass; in either case, sanitary-sponge rules apply...
don't.
use.
sponges.
...the f*ck is wrong with you people?!.if you must use a sponge: thoroughly wash, rinse, wring, and set it out somewhere well-ventilated to air-dry quickly and completely after each use...
...seriously, do wash your f*cking hair by dunking your head in a soiled toilet and flushing it a couple of times?..you eat off your dishes, man, practice some sanitary scullery!..
...yep, eight employers over three decades?..pretty sucky but also pretty ubiquitous, and every time you hop jobs you start over from zero again...