In the pursuit of a healthier lifestyle, it’s not just food and personal care products that must be carefully vetted. Household and work environments can also be laden with dangerous chemicals and toxins. New and old items each come with their own risks. An older home or car may still contain chemicals that were found […]
If you’re a health conscious consumer (or completely obsessed, like I am) you probably avoid drinking from plastic bottles, whether the “disposable” recyclable kind or the more sturdy reusable kind. Maybe you’ve even stopped using plastic containers to package leftovers and shun plastic toys from your kids’ playroom. I get it — BPA (bisphenol A) […]
You no longer need to buy fancy detox products that promise to rid you of all the toxins you’ve been exposed to during your life. Why? Because even though most of us deal with toxic overload at some point in our lives, we’re always going to be exposed to more toxins, many of which we […]
Plastics are affordable, lightweight and damage-resistant, so they are the easiest choice for food storage and lunch containers. But are they safe? You may have heard about the toxin bisphenol-A or BPA. Many products are now sold with a “BPA free” label, which is supposed to assure us that a product is safe. However, these […]
