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Chemicals In Everyday Products Turning Boys Into Girls?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Toys, Pesticides, Sunscreen, Parabens, Boys, Dioxin, Defra, Healthy Child Healthy World, Toxins, Girls, Toxic Chemicals, Stainless Steel, Organic Food, Plastic, Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals, Cancer, Phthalates, Health, Living News
Christopher Gavigan

A new report from the Danish Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), highlights the critical risks facing toddlers from gender bending chemicals in everyday products.

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What's The Best Lubricant? 10 Natural Lubes To Bring Home (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Jess Kapadia | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: All-Natural, Silicone, Sexual Health, Parabens, Personal Lubricant, Natural, Slidepoll, Lubrication, Cosmetics Chemicals, Sexuality, Lubricants, Women's Sexuality, Lubricant, Lube, Health, Sex, Organic-Lubricant, Lubricant Personal, Living News

You sip antioxidant drinks, practice yoga, and make sure your body and skin care products are paraben-free. But your love zone is asking, "what about ...

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Anti-Aging and Anti-Wrinkling Skin Care Products: Cosmeceuticals

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Nanoparticles, Cosmeceuticals, Alpha-Hydroxy Acids, Parabens, Fda, Anti-Aging Products, Skin, Cosmetics, Chemicals, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

The term 'cosmeceutical' was developed as a way to avoid subjecting the industry's claims to the authority of the Food and Drug Administration.

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Do 'Natural' And 'Botanical' Mean Safer?

Los Angeles Times | Rosie Mestel | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Soap, Green-Deodorant, Parabens, Shampoo, Natural, Carcinogens, Deodorant, Breast Cancer, Organic Cosmetics, Natural-Ingredients, Cosmetics Chemicals, Green Soap, Clean-Ingredients, Health, Living News

Containing substances such as neem tree oil and leaf or bark extract, cinnamon oil, chamomile and calendula, these products may indeed send Johnny or ...

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The National Cancer Institute Should Delay Its Collaboration With Love/Avon

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Cosmetic Ingredients, Avon Army of Women, Nci, Parabens, National Cancer Institute, M.D., Health, Samuel S. Epstein, Women's Health, Carcinogens, Cosmetics, The Avon Foundation, Dr. Susan Love, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

The NCI should insist that Avon reformulate its products to phase out all toxic ingredients and replace them by safe alternatives before proceeding with their important initiative.

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A Truly Green (and Frugal) Fashion Choice: Thrift Stores

Karla Zens | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Barney's, Bisphenal A, Parabens, Vintage Clothing, Green Clothes, Shopping, Cotton, Old Navy, Vocs, Volatile-Organic-Compounds, Clothes, Green Living, Thrift Stores, Sweatshops, Green News
Karla Zens

Carefully inspected and then laundered, second hand fashion is cleaner than the escalator handrail at the mall. So give recycled fashion a try: it's cheap, chic and truly green.

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Think Before You Drink...Water

Hedrick Smith | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, Clean Drinking Water, Toxic, Parabens, Water, Tap Water, Environment, Safe Drinking Water, U.S. Geological Survey, Pollution, Drinking Water, Green News
Hedrick Smith

Chemicals in consumer products are finding their way into sewers, storm drains, and eventually into our drinking water. Millions of people are drinking endocrine disruptors in their tap water.

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The Toxic Side of Beauty

Tracy Hepler | Posted 03.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Green Cosmetics, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Parabens, Natural Ingredients, Environmental Working Group, Green News
Tracy Hepler

Why does being a woman often include surrounding yourself with toxic chemicals? That question seems to come up daily as we discover ingredients inside of our favorite hair dyes, nail polishes and lipsticks.

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How to Green Your Genes

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Plastics, Pesticides, Epigenetics, Organic Food, Dna, Parabens, Health, Duke University, Genetics, Future, Green Living, Cleaning, Organic, Family, 100 Days, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

Studies suggest that what we eat, how we live, and what our environment exposes us to today could have an impact on the health of our distant descendants.

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