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Attractive and desirable though they are, no nail products are 100 percent safe and nontoxic. You can find products with fewer hazardous chemicals than their conventional counterparts, but try to use these sparingly or save them for special occasions

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Opt for water-based, rather than solvent-based, polishes and removers that pose less of a threat to your respiratory tract. But be aware that these still contain acrylic polymers that could cause dermatitis and nasal irritation, ethyl lactate, which can irritate the skin and respiratory tracts, and polyurethane formers and binders. Toluene diisocyanate (TDI), a component of polyurethane, "can cause airways sensitivity, and reexposure to TDI can cause chemically induced asthma" when inhaled, according to Phil Landrigan and Herbert Needleman in Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World (Rodale, 2001).