Conscious Health & Wellness

The Honey Pot was acquired by Compass Diversified in 2024. In 2025 that parent said three years of its own financial statements could no longer be relied on. Here’s what that means.

Your daily coffee has a supply chain most brands would rather you didn’t look at. Here are the ethical, sustainable coffee brands doing it in the open, vetted on sourcing, growing, and transparency.

Fair trade sets a price floor you can look up. Direct trade often pays more but promises nothing you can verify. The difference matters more than the logos suggest.

Coffee used to grow under forest. Then it was bred to tolerate full sun, and the forest came down. One certification actually verifies the canopy, and under 1% of farms hold it.

Conventional coffee is one of the more heavily sprayed crops, and very little of that reaches your mug. The people it does reach are the ones picking it.

A whole category of coffee is sold on the claim that ordinary coffee is full of mold toxins. The regulatory limits and the testing data tell a much duller story.

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.

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.

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.

One state requires menstrual products to list their ingredients. Everywhere else, a pad can be most plastic, contain fragrance, and disclose neither. Here’s what’s in there and how to read around the gap.