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phthalates in the home

Manufacturers report toxic chemicals in wide range of household products

New report reveals toxic phthalates “everywhere.” Used in products from 3M, Hallmark Cards, The Gap, Sherwin-Williams Company, True Value, and More

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Mind the Store Tagged With: allergies, asthma, BBP, California, cleaning products, DBP, DEHP, Environmental Health Strategy Center, Europe, exposure, fragrance, hormone disruptors, learning disabilities, maine, manufacturers, personal care products, phthlates, plasticizer, products, Report, reproductive harm, retailers, vinyl plastic, washington, Oregon, Vermont, paints, restrictions, disclosure, Maine reporting, prevent harm, vinyl clothing, shoes, 3M, Ga, Inc., Gap, diethylhexyl phthalate, diethyl phthalate, benzyl butyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, DEP

Great Lakes

Hazardous chemical from scented products is polluting the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are under emerging threat from an unnecessary long-lasting fragrance chemical. Galaxolide, a synthetic musk frequently used in those scented cleaning products that give our home that pine-fresh or lemony-smell, is getting washed down the drain, sneaking past wastewater treatment plants and is putting the Great Lakes’ delicate ecosystem as risk.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chemicals, cleaning products, fragrance, fragrance free, Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, pollution, water, synthetic musk, Galaxolide, Women's voices, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, scented products, disclosure

Fragrance ingredients

A win for women, by women. Hello fragrance ingredients!

In an unprecedented move, SC Johnson (Glade, Windex, Pledge) just announced that it would become the first mainstream company to list all fragrance ingredients for each of its cleaning products. This is a huge victory, a win by women and for women that will make waves

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Mind the Store Tagged With: allergens, chemicals, cleaning products, consumer Power, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, fragrance, fragrance secrets, glade, Green Cleaning Party Kit, Green Economy, health, phthalates, pledge, policy, products, retailers, SC Johnson, synthetic musks, toxic, Toxic Chemicals in Cleaners & Fragrance, Toxic chemicals in cleaning products, Windex, Women's Voices for the Earth, womens health, WVE, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

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