Spring Cleaning the Non-Toxic Way

If spring cleaning is on your to-do list, you’ll want to make sure you’re not replacing dirt with chemical pollutants that are harmful to your health, as well as the environment.Here’s what you need to know to green and simplify your cleaning routine this Spring or at any time of the year.

BPA Substitute Also Disrupts Hormone Activity: New Study

Used in everything from currency to thermal receipt paper, the BPA substitute BPS also acts as an estrogen disruptor, say researchers, changing patterns of cell growth and death, as well as hormone release — and, like BPA, also does so at extremely low levels of exposure.