Alternatives to Toxic Air Fresheners
Tweet Alexandra Scranton Director of Science and Research Although air fresheners have become a staple in many homes and offices, the ingredients that make up those fresh and tropical scents are...
View ArticleSomething Stinks About Fragrance Safety Standards
Tweet Alex Scranton Director of Science & Research Fragrance scents can be found in almost anything: cleaners, personal care products, perfume, tampons and pads, air fresheners, and even baby...
View ArticleFragrance Industry Responds to Our Report on Safety Policy Failures
Tweet Alex Scranton Director of Science & Research Our newly released fragrance report – Unpacking the Fragrance Industry: Policy Failures, the Trade Secret Myth and Public Health — has grabbed...
View ArticleAnother New Cosmetics Safety Bill Fails To Provide Protection Consumers Need
Tweet Jamie McConnell Director of Programs & Policy A new bill was recently introduced into Congress to address the issue of cosmetic safety. Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) introduced the...
View ArticleToxic Chemicals Found in Fragrance
Tweet Exactly what are the fragrance industry’s standards of safety? The term “fragrance” represents a chemical cocktail that can be made up of hundreds of ingredients. Fragrances are found in...
View ArticleMoira’s Story: Fragrance & Formaldehyde
Tweet Moira Brouillard Owner or Earthly Roots Hair Studio My name is Moira Brouillard, and I own a small, eco-friendly hair studio in Concord, New Hampshire called Earthy Roots Hair Studio. I’ve been...
View ArticleIs SC Johnson Really Committed to Transparency?
Tweet Beth Conway Communications Director Did you hear? SC Johnson announced this week it is disclosing all fragrance ingredients – down to the component level — in a new 3-product collection, the...
View ArticleTake the Fragrance-Free Pledge!
Tweet Beth Conway Communications Director Take our fragrance-free pledge by March 6, 2016 and you’ll be entered for a chance to win one of three $50 giveaways from natracare. I’ll choose three...
View ArticleP&G Says No to 140 Fragrance Chemicals
Tweet Alex Scranton Director of Science & Research There is a lot to like about P&G’s updated fragrance ingredient palette, but they don’t provide details on why they decided to remove some...
View ArticleLet’s Abolish the Toxic Tampon Tax Too!
Tweet Sarada Tangirala National Campaigns Manager NPR dubbed 2015 the Year of the Period, but from the looks of it, 2016 has some real changes in the works that will make having periods a lot less...
View ArticleSafer Choice: 64 Cleaning Products Now Carry EPA’s Fragrance-Free Label
Tweet Jamie McConnell Director of Programs & Policy Last year the EPA launched the new “Safer Choice” and “Safer Choice Fragrance Free” labels for cleaning products, which replaced the old Design...
View ArticleIs Your Morning Routine Riddled With Toxic Chemicals?
Tweet Kenzie Lombardi WVE Intern When I first started to learn about toxic chemicals in personal care and cleaning products, my first reaction was “Surely, there can’t be that many dangerous...
View Article‘Proprietary Ingredients’ Should Not Come Before Children’s Health. Ever.
Tweet Eighteen year old Brandon Silk and countless others like him suffer serious, sometimes deadly, reactions to the secret ingredients in fragranced cosmetics and personal care products. In...
View ArticleNon-Toxic Life Lessons from Mom
Tweet Kenzie Lombardi WVE Intern On a national holiday when we celebrate moms, and other influential women in our lives, it only seemed fitting to share a few of the invaluable pieces of wisdom I’ve...
View ArticleSC Johnson’s Journey Along ‘Disclosure Road’
Tweet Sarada Tangirala National Campaigns Manager In 2007 WVE released its Household Hazards Report, the first-ever report to investigate toxic chemicals in household cleaning products. Ever since...
View ArticleThe Fragrance Funhouse
Tweet Ruth Crystal WVE Intern How our affinity for fragrance has built a spooky empire of weird, unnecessary, and unhealthy products. Scent plays a key role in our daily lives. We are all attracted to...
View ArticleOpen Letter to SC Johnson from Leading Scientists Asking Company to Remove...
Tweet In this open letter to SC Johnson & Son (SCJ), top scientists join us to express their concerns about the environmental impacts of Galaxolide, a chemical that is ending up in the environment...
View ArticleHow You Can Support Fragrance Free Public Spaces
Tweet Jamie McConnell Director of Programs & Policy We’ve all been there—you walk into a store and are bombarded with the smell of fragrance (Bath and Body Works anyone? Ugh.). Or the perfume your...
View ArticleWVE’s Top Five Blog Posts of 2016!
Tweet Beth Conway Communications Director Voices Blog readers – the results are in! Taking inspiration from our friends at Savvy Women’s Alliance, I’m recapping WVE’s most popular blog posts of 2016!...
View ArticlePhthalate Exposure Linked to Increased Risk of Miscarriage, Gestational Diabetes
Tweet Jamie McConnell Director of Programs & Policy Two recent studies from the Harvard School of Public Health underscore the reproductive health impacts of exposure to phthalates. The studies...
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