Women sued Unilever over hair loss they blamed on this preservative. By July 2022 it was gone from TRESemme in the US. The company never conceded the point, which tells you something on its own.
It replaced sulfates in half the shampoos on the shelf because it’s milder. Then the American Contact Dermatitis Society named it Allergen of the Year, and the reason why turns out not to be the ingredient at all.
The story that sulfates cause cancer has been circulating since the nineties and it was never true. Which is a shame, because the chain-email version buried a smaller, real problem worth knowing about.
You spend a third of your life on it, so the materials matter more than almost anything else you own. Here are the non-toxic mattresses worth buying, vetted on certifications and what’s actually inside.
People treat “mineral sunscreen” as one thing. It’s two ingredients that don’t do the same job, and only one of them covers the full range of UV on its own.
It’s named in every sunscreen ban alongside oxybenzone and gets a fraction of the attention. It’s also hiding in products that aren’t sunscreen at all, doing a completely different job.
Key West banned it. Then the state of Florida stepped in and un-banned it, fourteen months before the rule was due to start. Here’s what the research actually says, and why the fight got that ugly.
No agency defines the word. No one approves it before it goes on a bottle. Here’s the standard that does exist, why “chemical free” is the emptiest claim on the shelf, and the four certifications that carry real weight.
Researchers put sampling equipment on residential dryer vents and found hazardous air pollutants coming out with the fresh-laundry smell. The chemicals responsible are legal, common, and hidden behind a single word.
One ingredient in most conventional detergent has no cleaning function at all. Its job is to stay on your clothes and bend light so your whites read as whiter. Here’s what that means for your skin and the water.