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Tell Tide to Come Clean and Ditch the 1,4-Dioxane

 Would you knowingly wash your clothes in detergent that contained cancer-causing chemicals? I sure wouldn’t, and I bet you wouldn’t either. No wonder many cleaning product companies don’t tell you that they use ingredients that are known to cause not just cancer, but various reproductive problems and allergies, too. Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), […]

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Please don’t squeeze the Charmin – or use it for anything else!

Charmin, Kleenex Cottonelle, Quilted Northern and Scott are among the toilet papers and tissues that do the most harm to forests and the environment, according to a new report by Greenpeace. The non-profit research group evaluated dozens of brands of toilet paper, facial tissue, paper, towels and napkins according to three criteria: 1) How much […]

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Make the Shift: Phosphate-Free Dish Detergent

Phosphates were once widely used in laundry detergents. Due to their deteriorating impact on water quality (too much phosphorus creates suffocating algae blooms), the Federal government limited phosphorus content to 5% by weight in the 1970s. But guess what? There’s no restriction on the phosphorus content of diswashing detergents, which may contain as much as […]

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