Minnesota banned PFAS cookware outright in 2025. Maine and Colorado followed this January. For once this isn’t a story about regulators doing nothing, and the reason they moved is sitting in your cupboard with a scratch in it.
The pan you bought as the safe alternative to Teflon is almost certainly a metal pan sprayed with liquid glass. That’s not a scandal, but it explains why it stops working after two years.
You may have heard aluminum pans cause Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s Association doesn’t think so, and says as much. There is still a reason to care what your pan is made of, and it’s a much more boring one.
You spend a third of your life on it, so the materials matter more than almost anything else you own. Here are the non-toxic mattresses worth buying, vetted on certifications and what’s actually inside.
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.
One ingredient in most conventional detergent has no cleaning function at all. Its job is to stay on your clothes and bend light so your whites read as whiter. Here’s what that means for your skin and the water.
Researchers put sampling equipment on residential dryer vents and found hazardous air pollutants coming out with the fresh-laundry smell. The chemicals responsible are legal, common, and hidden behind a single word.
No agency defines the word. No one approves it before it goes on a bottle. Here’s the standard that does exist, why “chemical free” is the emptiest claim on the shelf, and the four certifications that carry real weight.
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.
The kitchen is where household plastic breeds. Here are the zero-waste swaps that actually last, from beeswax wraps to a compost bin you’ll actually use.