Beauty & Skincare

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.

Safety reviewers call it safe. Finnish dermatologists traced an outbreak of contact allergy straight to it. Both things are true, and the gap between them is the useful part.

It’s a 19-letter word on a bottle that promised you clean. We read the safety review, the use levels, and the one caveat nobody mentions. Short version: this is one of the reassuring ones.

We checked the zinc, read the full ingredient lists, and sorted the reef-safe sunscreens that actually rub in from the ones that leave you ghost-white. Here are the mineral picks worth buying.

Most natural deodorants quit on you by lunch. These don’t. We vetted the aluminum-free brands on ingredients, who owns them, and whether they actually control odor through a real day.

We checked the certifications, read the full ingredient lists, and looked at who owns each label. Here are the non-toxic skincare brands worth your money.

Did you know that the average American adult runs through somewhere between nine and twelve personal care products before leaving the house in the morning? Foundation. Moisturizer. Shampoo. Deodorant. Perfume. Each one a mix of ingredients, a lot of which haven’t had a meaningful safety review since the 1970s. A chunk of those products contain…

Here’s something worth sitting with: the average person applies products containing around 126 unique chemical ingredients to their skin before breakfast. Not across the day. Before. (EWG) Not all 126 matter. The vast majority are actually harmless. The issue is, we keep seeing the same short list of toxic chemicals appearing in peer-reviewed research, on…