The chlorine bleaching that produced dioxin in tampons was phased out decades ago. Trace dioxin still turns up, including in organic cotton, for a reason that has nothing to do with tampons at all.
Researchers tested 30 tampons across 14 brands and found lead in every single one. The FDA opened an investigation. What that means in practice is more complicated and less frightening than the headlines suggested.
You wear period products against some of the most absorbent tissue in your body, so what they’re made of matters. Here are the organic and low-tox period brands worth switching to.
Most cleaning sprays hide their ingredients behind one word and fill your home with fumes you didn’t agree to breathe. Here are the non-toxic cleaning brands that clean well and tell you what’s inside.
Nickel is the most common contact allergen there is, and roughly one in ten women reacts to it. Europe caps how much a piece of jewelry may release into skin. The US has no equivalent rule, and “hypoallergenic” means nothing.
Lab-grown skips the mine, which is the strongest argument for it. But growing a diamond takes enormous energy, and where that energy comes from decides whether the footprint is smaller or larger.
Buying recycled gold doesn’t reduce mining, because gold has always been recycled and the supply is nearly fixed. The certification that does change something for miners is one almost nobody has heard of.
Gold mining is one of the dirtiest industries on the planet, and most jewelry hides where its metal and stones came from. Here are the sustainable jewelry brands doing it in the open.
Every other ingredient we write about is a question of what it does inside your body. Mica isn’t. Mica is a question about who dug it out of the ground, and the honest answer is often a child.
FDA tested 400 lip products and found an average of about 1 part per million of lead. The eyeshadows and blushes it tested ran higher. Almost nobody writes about those.