Ingredient Disclosure: Moving the Market to Safer Products
In 2007, when our Household Hazards report was released, virtually no cleaning product companies were disclosing any ingredients on a website or label — even if the ingredients were linked to cancer or reproductive harm like infertility and birth defects.
Toxic Chemicals Found in Fragrance
The fragrance industry's self-regulating chemical safety program is greenlighting chemicals that reputable authoritative bodies and government agencies have restricted, banned or deemed hazardous.
Fragrance Industry Responds to Our Report on Safety Policy Failures
Our newly released fragrance report – Unpacking the Fragrance Industry: Policy Failures, the Trade Secret Myth and Public Health -- has grabbed the attention of the fragrance industry.
Something Stinks About Fragrance Safety Standards
Safety of 3,000 fragrance chemicals is entirely determined by the fragrance industry. This self-regulating policy is failing to protect the public from chemicals of concern in fragrance.
Report Exposes Failures of Fragrance Industry’s Self-Regulated Safety Policies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11.5.2015 – An exclusive report by national women’s health non-profit, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), is a first of its kind... Read More
Under Pressure, Feminine Product Makers Disclose Ingredients
The New York Times Rachel Abrams Oct. 26, 2015 …”Fragrances can be particularly problematic for consumers seeking more detailed information about their personal care products.... Read More
New Study Finds Scented Candles and Air Fresheners Pose Dangerous Health Risks
Women’s Day Alexis Hobbs September 3, 2015 You might think twice before lighting up that pumpkin spice candle. …In a 2013 International Journal of Public Health... Read More
Why Air Fresheners and Scented Candles Can Wreck Your Health
Feature in The Daily Mail on the dangers of fragrance chemicals like synthetic musks found in air fresheners and scented products.
SC Johnson Announces an End to Fragrance Secrecy
Makers of Glade become the first major consumer product company to list product-specific fragrance ingredients FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 9, 2014 SC Johnson (Glade, Windex,... Read More
Perfume remains a ‘secretive trade,’ but US cleaner giant moves to transparency.
The Guardian Amy Westervelt September 29, 2014 Clorox is working to disclose allergens in its products’ fragrances. Will others will begin to abolish their own... Read More