Fluoride-free used to mean giving up protection. Hydroxyapatite changed that, and there are now randomized trials putting it level with fluoride. Here’s what the evidence supports and what it doesn’t.
Everyone says charcoal toothpaste is too abrasive. Measured abrasivity says most of it isn’t. The real objection is simpler and harder to argue with.
Perfume is the one product that legally hides its whole ingredient list behind a single word. Here are the clean fragrance and natural perfume brands that actually tell you what you’re spraying on.
On July 31 this year, a European rule expanding the list of fragrance allergens that must be named on a label came into force. The FDA was supposed to have its own version by December. It missed the deadline.
Nobody defines it. Two brands using the phrase can mean opposite things, because one has removed synthetics and the other has kept them and disclosed them. Which is better depends on a question most people haven’t been asked.
Congress ordered the FDA to write an asbestos testing standard for talc cosmetics. The agency proposed one in December 2024 and withdrew it in November 2025. Here’s what the testing has found in the meantime.
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.
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.
We read the ingredient lists, checked who owns each label, and sorted the clean makeup that actually performs from the stuff that separates by noon. Here are the natural makeup brands worth buying.
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.