Titanium dioxide

White paint for your skin.

Pulverized mineral, bleached and refined.

Cooked in acid baths, filtered through chlorine.

Sold as “pure pigment” — looks sterile enough.

Inflames lungs, irritates guts, stresses DNA.

Microparticles slip past every barrier.

Body files complaint, lab says “inconclusive.”

Hidden in sunscreen, toothpaste, supplements, candy.

“Mineral-based,” “reef-safe,” “gentle on skin.”

All slogans for powdered paint.

Whiteness worshiped, toxicity ignored.