Simplified Speech #235 – Talking about chemicals

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this Simplified Speech episode, Andrew and Indiana talk about harmful chemicals in household products and how they try to reduce exposure to these chemicals in their daily lives. You will hear them discuss common household cleaners, beauty items, plastic food storage containers, and some simple choices that they make to try and stay safe and healthy at home.

What you’ll learn with this episode:

How to talk about cleaners, beauty products, and everyday items in natural English
Useful words and expressions related to safety, health, ingredients, and household routines
How native speakers share personal stories, give examples, and explain their lifestyle choices
Simple ways people try to avoid strong smells, heavy-duty cleaners, and unclear ingredients

This episode is perfect for you if:

You are interested in learning how to avoid unsafe chemicals in the daily products that you use
You want to talk about everyday health and safety in clear, natural English
You want to learn useful words for cleaners, beauty products, and daily routines

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Simplified Speech.
0:03.1	Simplified Speech is the Culep series, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand
0:08.4	conversations between native speakers.
0:11.3	Today, joining me for this episode is Indiana.
0:15.4	Hello, Indiana.
0:16.5	How are you doing?
0:18.5	Yeah, I'm doing good, Andrew.
0:19.9	And I'm also really excited for our topic today.
0:23.6	That is that we're going to be talking about chemicals or harmful substances that we try to
0:31.1	avoid in our day-to-day lives, like household cleaners or beauty products or things like that. This was actually requested by
0:39.9	a listener, a member of Culeps. And yeah, I think it'll be a really interesting conversation.
0:46.0	Yeah, absolutely. So shout out to Adikka, one of our very active Culeps members over on our
0:52.6	Discord channel who left us this episode topic suggestion
0:56.9	and said, hey guys, can you talk about this? Because Adidka is from Hungary, I believe,
1:03.4	and she mentioned that there weren't too many conversations about this topic that she could
1:08.8	find in her native language. And so if she wants to
1:12.2	learn more about it, she has to listen to content in English and, you know, talking about
1:17.2	chemicals and substances and detergents and cleaners. Like, this is pretty difficult. So we're going to
1:23.6	do our best to have a simple conversation about it because this is simplified
1:28.5	speech.
1:29.6	So as we go through the conversation, Indiana and I will stop and break down and explain
1:35.3	difficult expressions and vocabulary that we use when we're talking about this topic.
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