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Chemicals

Safe and Effective Sunscreens 2010

Chemicals

Last year’s post on Safe and Effective Sunscreens is one of the most popular on this site. It highlights the results of the Environmental Working Group’s sunscreen study. My goal was to look through their recommended options to find the most readily available and inexpensive sunscreens. EWG has just come out with their newest sunscreen [...]

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Why I Created Smart Family Tips

Chemicals

Healthy Child, Healthy World was one of the places I first began learning about the chemicals that have invaded our homes and our bodies. They have a new video; it’s 3 minutes long. Please watch it. This is why I started this blog: If you’re reading this post in an email or RSS reader, you’ll [...]

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Good Stuff

Chemicals

I’ve come across several good things I’d like to tell you about. 1. Diane MacEachern wrote about green dry cleaning this week. Her post is incredibly informative. She’s also provided a link to a database where you can locate the greenest dry cleaners in your area. 2. Colin Beavan, aka, No Impact Man has a [...]

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80,000 Chemicals in Everyday Products, But Who’s Counting (No One)

Chemicals

Janelle Sorensen was kind enough to give me permission to reprint this article she wrote for Healthy Child, Healthy World. I found the contents of this post too important to simply summarize. I’ve read over and over about the 80,000 chemicals in everyday products (most of which have only been in use since World War [...]

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Autism and Environmental Factors

Chemicals

Healthy Child, Healthy World, one of my favorite sites for child safety information, received permission to reprint an article highlighting the results of a study conducted by University of California scientists. Their conclusion: the exponential increase in Autism rates “cannot be explained by changes in doctors’ diagnoses and most likely is due to environmental exposures.” [...]

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Safe and Eco-Friendly Toys

Chemicals

Children’s toy hazards are all over the news. It seems that there’s a new danger every time we turn around. One way to avoid some of these problems (BPA, mercury, melamine, etc.) is to buy toys from companies committed to greener (and safer) practices. The Washington Post recently ran an article in their Kid’s Post [...]

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