• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

  • Get Involved
  • Our Work
    • News
    • Public Policy
    • Mind the Store
    • Successes
  • Get the Facts
  • About
  • Donate

products

an ad for skin lightening cream

Dismantling racist systems includes the toxic beauty industry

Skin lightening creams with mercury. Hair relaxers with parabens and estrogenic chemicals. Douches and vaginal sprays with phthalates.

In the US, beauty products are largely unregulated. Everyone is at risk, but women of color face extra hazards from the products that are marketed to them. And these hazards pile on top of health disparities created by other systemic injustices.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: beauty products, hormone disruptors, mercury, phthalates, products, retailers, toxic chemicals, WE ACT, Beauty Inside Out campaign, Leslie Martinez, Eurocentric beauty standard, racism

Because Health website

New non-profit site Because Health full of actionable tips for non-toxic living

When I was pregnant with my daughter, like many moms-to-be, I wanted to make sure that I was doing everything I could in a “natural” and “non-toxic” way. A couple of google searches later, and I was overwhelmed. I wanted a site that was easy to read, positive, and with real science-based suggestions and recommendations for what to do without actively trying to sell me anything.

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Health Science Tagged With: health, parenting, parents, products, safer products, tips, Because Health, Karen Wang, Collaborative on Health and the Environment

boy eating soup

Health advocates across the country call on Kroger and Albertsons to ban toxic BPA in food packaging

100,000+ people signed petitions calling on grocery retailers to ban BPA & adopt comprehensive chemical policies

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: bisphenol A, BPA, canned food, cans, food packaging, food safety, kroger, letters, products, retailers, testing, Albertsons, buyer beware, canned goods, grocery stores, can toxic bpa, CEO, food industry

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

rain jacket

Tell REI: Stop leaving a toxic trail of pollution

Take Action

Subscribe to Posts

Get our latest posts delivered to your inbox.

Get the Facts

These chemicals are linked to serious environmental and health problems. Check out our fact sheets, which draw from the leading peer-reviewed science.

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) & Bisphenol S (BPS)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methylene chloride
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
  • PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
  • Phthalates
  • Toxic flame retardants
Other Chemicals »

Footer

Contact Us

200 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
Email

Search

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

© 2022 Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families — All rights reserved.

  • About Us
  • Privacy policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Feed