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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.
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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...
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HOW TO: What You Ought to Know About That New Car Smell
If you Google "phthalates" (if you can spell phthalates), wanting more information about the notion you've heard that many plastic products contain potentially harmful chemicals, two of the first websites that pop up are www.phthalates.com...
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TALK: Mystery of the missing bees
If I had skinned that bee, I could have made a pair of bumblebee-fuzz mittens. Seriously. It was huge. Via the New York Times (months ago, but I just learned about this and it's freaking...
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TALK: When Mother Nature has PMS -or- "Holy $#!& look at that cloud!"
This summer, my boyfriend's uncle and his significant other went camping in Arkansas. During the night, there was a storm of Biblical proportions. Rain blowing sideways. Hail. The doomsday roar of nearby tornadoes."I've been in...