Hormones play a vital role in keeping your body regulated, especially when it comes to fertility. Your hormones and your hormone responses are in charge of keeping your body functioning correctly.

You may be shocked to discover that the personal care and makeup brands many women use every day often contain ingredients that are called endocrine disruptors. These chemicals affect your body's endocrine system, which researchers say could be extremely harmful to not only your fertility, but your ability to breastfeed as well. Though this information is significant for pregnant women or those hoping to be soon, every woman needs to pay closer attention to what goes into their everyday products.

"We are all routinely exposed to endocrine disruptors, and this has the potential to significantly harm the health of our youth," Renee Sharp, The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) Director of Research, said in a press release. "It’s important to do what we can to avoid them, but at the same time we can’t shop our way out of the problem. We need real chemical policy reform."

Since the FDA has very little control over cosmetic ingredients, women have to play detective and find brands that are free of endocrine disruptors. Check out the EWG's list of the Dirty Dozen products to avoid.