Two filters, two completely different mechanisms. One strains water through a membrane, the other makes contaminants stick to carbon. Which one you need depends entirely on what’s in your water.
Your utility has to publish a report on your water every year, and it’s free. Here’s how to read it, what it leaves out, and the one contaminant no utility report can tell you about.
An NSF logo on its own means almost nothing. The number after it is the whole message, and one of the numbers filters still advertise was retired years ago.
We read the performance data sheets, checked what each system is actually certified for, and traced who owns every brand. Here are the water filters worth buying, from a $65 dispenser to countertop reverse osmosis.
Caraway is the most recognizable non-toxic cookware brand going. We scored it 3.1, the lowest of anything we’ve rated, and the reason is the coating.
The handle composts. The bristles are nylon, on every brush you can buy, and the best-known brand contradicts itself about them on two of its own pages.
The sheet that dissolves in your washing machine is a polymer film. Whether that matters is one of the few environmental arguments where the campaigning side lost at the regulator.
The little triangle was never a recycling promise, the standard dropped the arrows in 2013, and the industry that put it there has admitted on the record what it was for.
Charmin’s bamboo line and the sustainability darling’s bamboo line score exactly the same grade. Recycled beats both, and the scorecard explains why in one formula.
One lab recorded the highest organic fluorine it had ever seen in a consumer product, and it was a spool of floss. The brand has since reformulated. Here’s what the research actually shows.