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  • HOW TO: Find Out What the Unpronounceable 8-Syllable Ingredients in Your...

    Hunt-and-peck the ingredient's name into Environmental Working Group's Cosmetic Safety Database (it's called "Cosmetic", but it's all personal-care products, not just makeup). For many ingredients, the results are not pretty.

  • HOW TO: Guess what? Your body is full of toxic waste.

    Body burden. Toxic trespass. Chemical contamination. What does it all mean?Each of these phrases refers to the load of synthetic chemicals that each human being on this planet carries. Yes, even you. Not even people...

  • HOW TO: Prevent giant oil spills

    After the Exxon-Valdez disaster, a law was passed requiring oil tankers to have double hulls. That didn't help the wildlife in San Francisco Bay and as far north as Point Reyes when a Korean ship...

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