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SuChin battles parabens, phthalates w/salt, peppermint soapvideos
We spend about $43 billion on skincare products every year, but many of these products contain toxic chemicals- to the environment and to us-. "Only 13 percent of the 10,500 ingredients in personal care products have been reviewed for safety", according to the Environmental Working Group (Their Skin Deep ...
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7 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
American cosmetics: a dumping ground for chemicalsvideos
Personal care and cosmetic products in the U.S. are a dumping ground for mostly untested chemicals. "Under federal law, companies can put virtually anything they wish into personal care products, and many of them do," explains the Environmental Working Group's Jane Houlihan. "Mercury, lead, and placenta extract — all ...
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8 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Chemicals in the U.S.: "innocent until proven guilty"videos
The system for regulating chemicals in the United States is broken. "Chemicals in the United States are too frequently, almost always, allowed on the market without adequate safety testing," explains the Environmental Working Group's Bill Walker. "We let them out on the market and then 20 years down the ...
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8 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How to shampoo with baking sodadiy
If you've been clued in to the problems with conventional shampoos- the potential endocrine-disruptors like parabens (used as preservatives), phthlates (often disguised as "fragrance") and triclosan (also found as a plaque-fighter in toothpaste) and potential carcinogens like diethanolamine (DEA) and triethanolamine (TEA), not to mention irritants like sodium lauryl ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 3 comments
Eminem's pesticide toothpaste; shampooing with floor cleanerblogs
When I read in the gossip columns that "Eminem brushes his teeth with pest spray", I thought for a moment he'd started to mix his own chemical-free cleaner- baking soda can both clean your teeth and repel bugs-, but it turns out he has joined the ranks of other ...
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9 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How to shampoo with baking soda and vinegarvideos
We've cleaned everything with it- the sink, toilet, bathtub, refrigerator-, but we haven't really dared to try baking soda as a toiletry. Until now.In this video, faircompanies' Kirsten Dirksen shampoos with baking soda and rinses with vinegar and finds her new look surprising.We also have a ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
faircompanies' home green cleaning demovideos
Indoor air pollution is a problem for every home. It’s not just paints that offgas VOCs (volatile organic compounds), but cleaning products as well. Cleaning your home doesn’t have to contribute to dirty air, there are more natural ways to clean. You can buy cleaning products that aren ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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SuChin cleans with vinegar and baking sodavideos
faircompanies collaborator SuChin Pak cleans the faircompanies bathroom without chemicals, phthalates nor VOCs: just vinegar and baking soda.We also have a video on commercial eco-cleaning products.
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Green cleaning in a bottle (no phosphates nor phthalates)videos
The campaign against conventional cleaning products has gone mainstream. The U.S. National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has even issued a warning to school kids that "some of the strong ingredients in cleaning products could damage the liver, lungs or kidney. Some of them have been linked to cancer." With ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Googling the chemicals in our "green cleaner"videos
Now
that green cleaning has gone mainstream, it seems every month there's a
new product to try out. Even supermarkets have their own low cost
generic brands. But just because a company advertises their product as
green, doesn't mean it's not full of chemicals.Luckily for us ...
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9 months, 4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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