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.

Learn about toxins and carcinogens and how to reduce exposures by weeding out products. Discover the five keys to an anti-cancer environment and preview common harmful chemicals in daily life.

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.

Explore how toxins are categorized by chemical makeup and damage type, including allergens (latex, pollen, nuts, bee stings), mutagens, neurotoxins, teratogens, and endocrine disruptors, with real-world examples.

Carcinogens are chemicals known to directly cause cancer by damaging cellular processes and driving carcinogenesis, while regulators like HHS, the EPA, and the WHO assess toxins after harm is found.

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.

Identify the terrible twelve toxins in the home, including PFAs, PBDEs, radon, heavy metals, pesticides, plastics, and VOCs. Use the Terrible 12 chart to learn locations and reduction steps.

Identify quick, cost-effective changes to reduce toxins in your home, like removing shoes at the front door. Learn exposure routes and known carcinogens to guide evidence-based decisions.

Explore the three routes of exposure—inhalation, ingestion, and absorption—and learn how to protect yourself from unnecessary contact to reduce health risks, including cancer.

Identify inhaled toxins in indoor air, including tobacco and vape smoke, dioxins, diesel exhaust, asbestos, and radon; learn how indoor air quality affects health in a healthy, nontoxic home.

Identify common toxins that enter by ingestion or absorption, including alcohol, heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic, and pesticides; learn safe handling and exposure reduction.

Explore chemicals in personal care products and daily exposure across shampoos, toothpaste, deodorants, and sunscreens, highlighting synthetic ingredients' potential harms and the need to scrutinize ingredients.

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 cosmetic ingredients linked to cancer, endocrine disruption, and gut microbiome changes, including BHA, triclosan, coal tar, SLS, formaldehyde, parabens, and phthalates.

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.

Discover how feminine care products can contain bleached cotton and rayon, with dioxin byproducts and glyphosate residues. Learn about methylene chloride, fragrance additives, and other chemicals found in tampons.

Explore safer alternatives for personal care, including mineral sunscreens with titanium dioxide or zinc oxide, reef-safe options, natural deodorants, and organic tampons or pads and menstrual cups.

Learn to choose safer personal care products by reading labels, preferring plant-based, pronounceable ingredients, and organic options free of phthalates and parabens; use EWG and PGS guides for safer choices.

Explore how perfumes and fragrances use chemicals and volatile organic compounds in products. Learn how these scents affect air quality and health, and why unscented labels may contain fragrance.

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.