Create a Healthy, Nontoxic Home

Examine the everyday chemicals we encounter in shampoo, detergents, sunscreen, and cleaners, and understand how environmental toxins can raise cancer risk and worsen asthma and skin conditions.

Examine how environmental toxins influence cancer risk, highlighting windows of susceptibility and gene-environment interactions. Learn about precautionary safety vs. reactionary regulation and the need to reduce exposure for cancer prevention.

Examine how chemicals affect our bodies, noting that unproven safety isn’t proof of safety. Learn about cocktail and synergistic effects, including BPA, methylparaben, and PFOA.

Explore the five environment keys to reduce toxin exposure—through inhalation, ingestion, and absorption—by reading labels, avoiding fragrance and hazardous ingredients, and improving indoor air quality.

Explore home toxins and how they affect the body. Toxins come from biological sources or human-made toxicants and can cause acute or chronic, localized or systemic effects, including cancer risk.

Identify how the EPA labels chemicals of concern and how regulators classify carcinogens across HHS and IARC, with examples like formaldehyde, lead, phthalates, acrylamide, and UV radiation.

Explore how synthetic chemicals appear in personal care products and how natural, plant-based ingredients differ. Learn to read labels, limit exposures at home, and understand EU versus US bans.

Explore common harmful ingredients in personal care products, including aluminum compounds, fluoride, pfas-containing floss, oxybenzone, nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, talc, and learn safer non-nano options and cornstarch.

Perfumes typically contain 14 chemicals from over 3,500 options, often with phthalates to hold scent, while fragrance labeling loopholes hide ingredients and Europe bans synthetic musk xylene for toxicity concerns.

Improve indoor air quality by ventilating spaces, testing for radon, and using fragrance-free or essential-oil products, plus natural options like potpourri, vinegar rinses, and activated charcoal.

Learn how indoor air quality is influenced by many home products and fragrances, and apply tips to reduce exposure to harmful perfumes to improve air quality. Small changes matter.