It’s strong enough in undiluted form to make your eyes water, but it’s as gentle as a feather on the environment. It’s Simple Green, an industrial-strength all-purpose cleaner that has managed to snag the Green Seal certification, a coveted “green stamp” for health, safety, and environmental impact considered highly meaningful by Consumer Reports. There are [...]
In my previous post I brought up some of the materials contained in mattresses, which I discovered as I was doing the research for that article. They include formaldehyde, polyurethane, petrochemicals, and volatile organic compounds (VOC’s), all of which are known to be harmful to health. You’re sleeping on these chemicals, night after night, for [...]
There is toxic poison lurking in most bathrooms: the ordinary vinyl or plastic shower curtain. Have you caught a whiff of one as you cracked open the packaging? Did it have that distinct vinyl smell that perhaps made you vaguely nauseous? A recent study by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice tells the grim [...]