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Not only have these ingredients been linked to serious health problems, they can also make your skin look dull, dry and older! You’d be better off putting nothing on your skin at all then using products high in these common beauty product chemicals.
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Melamine dinnerware has long been a parent’s best friend (it’s durable enough to survive temper tantrums and high-chair hijinks), but it’s also become super popular in the past couple of years, as more designers have taken to the material to experiment with funky designs and summer barbecue-friendly patterns. (See Bon Appetit’s roundup from last July: “Unbreakable, unmeltable, unmistakably beautiful: These melamine plates and platters can handle the great outdoors–and your dishwasher.”) A new study points out one really big drawback, whether you’re using it to serve baby food or ribs: If it gets hot enough, melamine actually leaches toxic chemicals into your food, and can end up causing kidney stones and other averse reactions in children and adults. More
Skip the blue eye shadow. Ditch the blue drinks. And don’t even think of blue popsicles, candy or lollipops. At least that’s what a new study about blue dye is telling us. Just because it’s approved for use in the U.S. doesn’t mean it’s safe–and this scary research points to why. More
In U.S. News and World Report, dietitian Tamara Duker Freuman takes down New Year’s detox diets and cleanses (especially those involving only juices or expensive supplements). In the short-term, these diets are likely to be neither harmful nor beneficial, she says … More
Good Morning America wanted to know if common brands of lipstick contained lead, so they sent 22 samples over to the scientists at Underwriters Labaratories. The scientists determined that 12 out of the 22 samples (or 55%) did contain lead. So why didn’t GMA release information about which brands of lipstick are made with lead? More
Last week Greenpeace put out a report on toxins in clothing which implicated fashion brands like Levi’s, Calvin Klein and Zara. Now, just nine days later, Zara is “going into detox,” as the UK Telegraph puts it. The Spanish clothing label said it will stop all release of hazardous chemicals throughout its entire supply chain and products by 2020. More
An awesome 15-year-old wants you to sign a petition to Gatorade telling them to stop putting “flame-retardant chemicals” in sports drinks. Did you even know you were drinking that? We didn’t! More
A new study about autism says that air pollution–including car exhaust and smog–could be seriously linked to the disease. Authors found that autistic children are two to three times as likely to have been exposed to pollution during their earliest days, drawing even stronger links to certain environmental causes of autism…and making Kelly Preston‘s ideas about environmental autism causes sound just a little more sane. More
A new investigative report has turned up some ugly truths about the inexpensive, trendy clothes we so love to buy. In “Toxic Threads,” Greenpeace International tested 141 clothing items from 20 major fashion brands and found items from every brand contained traces of hazardous chemicals and carcinogens. More
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After the New York City Board of Health unanimously voted yesterday to give giant soda the boot, there was an immediate outcry. “Nanny state!” cried those who weren’t in favor. “I don’t want government controlling what I eat!” But as a pretty repulsive article on Buzzfeed today points out, the government is already involved in what does (and doesn’t) show up on your grocery store shelves–and there’s still rodent hairs and bug legs in almost everything you buy. Which kind of makes me wish for more government intervention, not less. More
Why do you clean your house? Aside from making it look better, you probably do it to get it free of bacteria and other harmful pathogens that could make you or your family sick. But what if your household cleaning products–the stuff you use to protect yourself from gunk and germs–are also harmful? According to a report by the Environmental Working Group, many of them are. But don’t worry. There are plenty of clean, green alternatives. More
“Parabens,” the term for a group of preservatives used in mainstream beauty products, wasn’t always a dirty word. More
Often times, a health study comes out with a conclusion that is either a.) not surprising at all (like that sports drinks are useless) or b.) kind of a bummer (like that bananas are covered in crab juice), but not life-ruining. But there is a rare third category, in which a scientific study is so heartbreakingly awful that I just want to cry. Like this one, that found that the tapioca “pearls” found in bubble tea are full of potentially cancer-causing chemicals. Readers, I am officially devastated. More
We’ve all heard that beauty products may contain toxic ingredients that are bad for our health and the environment, but remembering the list of offenders is kind of a lost cause. We’ve created a cheat sheet for you to use before (quick: print it, cut it out, and stick it in your wallet!), but we also wanted to know which products we should nick from our routines completely…so we went to the experts. More
