Current law that oversees cosmetics is 80 years old. Time to change that!
There are currently around 10,000 ingredients used in cosmetics. Yet, the 84 billion dollar cosmetic and personal care industry is not required to meet any sort of safety standard for ingredients.
Are Cleaning Products Companies On the Road to Health First?
The Roadmap clearly lays out what we expect — what the public expects — an effective chemicals safety screening process to look like. Find out which companies are on track toward putting your health first!
How Do Toxic Quats Pass Clorox’s Chemicals Safety Screening?
If Clorox is OK using quats given all the health and safety data pointing to concerns about these chemicals, what else are they using that is not good for your health?
Join Young Climate Strikers to Speak Up for Climate Justice!
We need to be real that what’s happening to our climate is connected to what’s found in the products under our sinks, in our cabinets, and on our shelves.
Toxic food packaging at the grocery store?
Some PFAS remain in the human body for years and studies suggest exposure is associated with cancer, liver damage, and immune suppression.
WVE’s Top 5 Blog Posts of 2018
We look forward to bringing you more news-you-can-use about fragrance chemicals, safer salons, ingredient disclosure, non-toxic cleaning and period products in the New Year. It’s going to be a busy 2019 — and we’re so excited to have you with us!
Mattresses in the Mainstream
More and more people are talking about the health issues presented by the chemicals in the very things we sleep on and in. Check out a few highlights making headlines...
Quats in public spaces. Are you being exposed?
We can control the cleaning products we use in our homes, but what about products that get used in public spaces? Learn more and what you can do to help #quitquats for good!
Fighting for Chemical Security: Raising Our Voices for Health & Justice for People at the Fenceline
New report, Life at the Fenceline, looks at how living near hazardous chemical facilities can be exacerbated by everyday exposures to air pollution and also lack of access to healthy foods and products.
4 Reasons To Support Environmenstrual Action Week
The Week of Action is a campaign seeks to amplify the message that access to safe, affordable menstrual products shouldn’t be a privilege, but a fundamental right -- Natracare joins WVE to bring it across the pond to the US!