Articles tagged “Lead Poisoning”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

5 Tips for Green Furniture Refinishing By NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Oct 3 2010 Saving a piece of furniture from the landfill is an excellent way to go green in your home, and you can ensure a green and healthy refinishing process with five simple tips. + READ MORE

Get the Lead Out of Your Purse. By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 2 2010 Testing by the Center for Environmental Health revealed lead in many women's handbags and other accessories. Now over 40 retailers have agreed to stop selling lead-containing goods. + READ MORE

Lipstick Danger: Don't Let Lead Poison your Pout By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 19 2009 In 2007, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics selected over 30 lipsticks in four different cities and sent them for lead testing. Over one half came back with detectable levels of lead. One third had more lead than the FDA legally allowed. Among the brands containing lead were the cosmetic powerhouses L'Oreal, Cover Girl, and Christian Dior. + READ MORE

Get the Lead Out By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 24 2008 Doors are a membranous barrier that help us clearly outline the distinction between the abstract states of ?in? and ?out.? A person passing through a door has the rare privilege of existing in a third, limbo-like, paradoxical state. + READ MORE

Know Your Cosmetics Ingredients: Top Five Ingredients to Avoid By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 19 2008 Gaping loopholes in public-health laws give cosmetics companies the license to use almost any ingredient they want in their products, whether it's sunscreen or baby shampoo, without any restrictions or requirements for safety testing. Ingredients include carcinogens in baby shampoo called 1,4-dioxane and coal tar in... + READ MORE

Best of 2007: Detox Your Home By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 3 2008 Indoor air pollution can be two to five times worse than outdoor air pollution, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Neutralize trace organic pollutants, such as benzene and formaldehyde, simply by growing certain varieties of houseplants.Find out which ones you want to add to your your detox arsenal, + READ MORE

Toast the New Year Without Lead Crystal By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Dec 29 2007 New Year's resolutions are often hard to keep but my first one is easy and green: Stop drinking wine out of leaded crystal stemware. Experts seem to agree that while the danger is small if the wine is consumed over a short space of time (such as a dinner), trace amounts of lead do leach into beverages, especially white + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: Detect, Remove Lead Paint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 10 2007 Sorry, parental units, but discovering traces of lead in your kids' toys is the least of your problems with this neurotoxin. Wash and wipe down surfaces: Meanwhile, wet-mop floors and wipe windows and other contaminated surfaces with trisodium phosphate or another high-phosphate detergent-note, however, that although... + READ MORE

Lose Those Shoes Before Entering By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 14 2007 There are myriad reasons for leaving your shoes next to the welcome mat: Your hardwood floors will hold up longer, for instance, without grit and sand constantly grinding into its finish. While adults are by no means immune, childhood lead poisoning remains a major environmental-health problem in the United States,... + READ MORE