An environmental group tested five best-selling detergents in 2019 and found a likely carcinogen in every one. They ran the same test in 2024 and the numbers had collapsed. Here’s what changed, and what it doesn’t fix.
The layer against your skin all day deserves better than conventional cotton. Here are the sustainable underwear and basics brands worth buying, vetted on fibers, fair labor, and comfort.
We read the ingredient lists, checked the certifications, and sorted the clean shampoos that actually work from the ones that leave your hair limp. Here are the non-toxic haircare picks worth buying.
We checked the coatings, the materials, and who owns each brand. Here’s the non-toxic cookware worth buying, from ceramic nonstick to cast iron, and the stuff to throw out.
We checked the certifications, traced the materials, and looked at who owns each label. Here are the sustainable activewear brands worth your money, and the ones we left off.
One study from 2002 is doing all the work behind this fear, and almost nobody quoting it has read what it tested. Here’s the study, what it found, and why it doesn’t apply to your face cream.
The ingredient is benign. What can ride along with it from the factory is a likely human carcinogen, which is why New York wrote a law about it. That distinction is the whole story.
Half the internet will tell you it’s antifreeze. It isn’t, and the mix-up is one letter deep. Here’s what butylene glycol does, what the testing shows, and the one group who should pay attention.
The FDA has been asking for more data on this one since 2016 and still hasn’t got it. Not banned, not cleared, and sitting in the alcohol-free hand sanitizer in your bag. Here’s what’s known.
It shows up at levels a hundred times higher than the preservatives everyone argues about, and almost nobody questions it. Two separate investigations cleared it. Here’s what they actually tested.