A Lover’s Guide to a Non-Toxic Valentine’s Day
Aww, Valentine’s Day. A day for romance, wining and dining, cuddling, chocolate, lovemaking, and of course, showing your affection by showering yourself and your beloved with toxic chemicals. (Wait, what?)
Fragrance body adds phthalates to industry transparency list
Chemical Watch article - Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) expresses concern that five phthalates were among those recently added to IFRA fragrance list.
Are Phthalates DBP and DEHP Back in Fragrance??!
In October, IFRA added approximately 750 chemicals to the fragrance ingredient list, including toxic phthalates DBP and DEHP, and carcinogen styrene oxide.
Recommended Read: Ten Questions Concerning Air Fresheners
Published in the reputable scientific journal, Building and Environment, this article poses ten key questions about air fresheners, and pulls together key scientific studies to answer those questions in an audience-friendly way.
Changing the Smell of Clean
The fragrance can be the most toxic part about conventional cleaning products. Other aspects of them can be dangerous, but only if you touch or ingest them. Guest post by Lisa Bronner.
Amid Calls from Scientists, Health Professionals and Women Nationwide, SC Johnson Announces it will Eliminate Harmful Fragrance Chemical Galaxolide
In a major victory for ingredient safety, SC Johnson (Glade®, Windex®, Pledge®) confirmed last week that it is transitioning away from the toxic fragrance chemical, Galaxolide.
How You Can Support Fragrance Free Public Spaces
Helpful fragrance-free policies and other resources to help make your case for why everyone’s health is better off without unnecessary and uncontrollable fragrance exposures.
Open Letter to SC Johnson from Leading Scientists Asking Company to Remove Toxic Galaxolide
Top scientists join us to express their concerns about the environmental impacts of Galaxolide, a toxic fragrance chemical that is ending up in the environment and in you.
The Fragrance Funhouse
From pizza dough perfume, to floral scented tampons the fragrance funhouse is getting spooky! We are so afraid of bad smells, and have convinced ourselves that smelling-good is the same thing as being clean and in some cases, being healthy.
Talking Ingredient Disclosure and Safe Cleaning in DC with SNL Alumni
We had the privilege to join Maya Rudolph and Senator Al Franken in DC to talk about the need for ingredient disclosure and the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act.