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How Top Companies Rate



You deserve to know that the products you clean your home with are safe, so WVE is keeping track of the progress of five top cleaning product companies in making safer cleaners and disclosing ingredients.

Company Ingredients Disclosed Ingredients Kept Secret Toxic Chemicals in Products

Clorox

Clorox®, Formula 409®, Pine-Sol®, GreenWorks® & more

 Online:

  • Some ingredients
  • Dyes
  • Preservatives
  • Master list of fragrance ingredients

Labels:

  • GreenWorks®
  • Product-specific fragrance ingredients
  • Allergens
  • Monoethanolamine
  • Ammonium quaternary compounds
  • Test results show chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and toluene

Reckitt Benckiser

Easy Off®, Lysol®, Old English® & more

 Online:

  • Some ingredients
  • Dyes
  • Preservatives
  • Fragrance ingredients
  • Allergens
  • Monoethanolamine
  • Ammonium quaternary compounds

Procter & Gamble

Mr. Clean®, Tide®, Febreze®, Cascade® & more

 Online:

  • Some ingredients
  • Dyes
  • Preservatives
  • Master list of fragrance ingredients
  • Product-specific fragrance ingredients
  • Allergens
  • Monoethanolamine
  • Ammonium quaternary compounds
  • Phthalates
  • Synthetic musks
  • Triclosan

SC Johnson

Windex®, Fantastik®, Pledge®, Glade® & more
  • Some ingredients
  • Dyes
  • Preservatives
  • Master list of fragrance ingredients

Labels:

  • SC Johnson has committed to start listing ingredients, except for fragrance, on labels
  • Product-specific fragrance ingredients
  • Allergens
  • Monoethanolamine
  • Ammonium quaternary compounds
  • Synthetic musks
  • Phthalates*

*SC Johnson announced the removal of phthalates in 2009–product testing results show phthalates

Simple Green

Simple Green®, Simple Green Naturals®

 Online:

  • Some ingredients
  • Master list of fragrance ingredients
  • Dyes
  • Preservatives
  • Product-specific fragrance ingredients
  • Test results show toluene, 1,4-dioxane and phthalates*

*Simple Green committed to reformulate its products to remove phthalates in 2010—product testing results show phthalates.

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