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Glade Air Freshener: Poster Child for Toxic Secrets

Posted May 20th, 2013 by

Women’s Voices for the Earth recently launched our Glade: Stop Keeping Toxic Secrets Campaign. Learn more here. Join us to ask Glade to stop keeping their fragrance ingredients a secret! Air freshener seems to be more and more prevalent in our society these days.  One market analysis forecast that home fragrance sales would reach $6 [...]

Is Your Favorite Company Holding Out on You?

Posted February 28th, 2013 by

Same product. Two different labels. An appalling double standard when it comes to our health.

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Sensitive to Fragrance? You’re Not the Only One

Posted February 20th, 2013 by

A new report from Women’s Voices for the Earth, Secret Scents: How Hidden Fragrance Allergens Harm Public Health, finds that millions of people are affected by skin allergies caused by chemicals in fragrance. In fact, allergic reactions to fragrance chemicals are common, and have increased significantly among children in the past few decades. Women are [...]

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Victory for Moms! Tide Agrees to Reformulate!

Posted January 29th, 2013 by

You did it! Procter & Gamble has just agreed to reformulate Tide and Tide Free & Gentle to drastically reduce the levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane! Learn more. In just one short year, you moved the biggest consumer product company on the planet to make this change.  Together, we not only made a difference [...]

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Non-Toxic Holiday Shopping Guide!

Posted December 3rd, 2012 by

Women’s Voices for the Earth’s Non-Toxic Shopping Guide has everything you need to make responsible choices without compromising the fun and excitement of gift-giving. With this Guide, you can use your consumer power to tell and show companies that you demand safer products!

OMG! There’s a CANCER-Causing Chemical in This?!

Posted October 15th, 2012 by

Baby Emma just found out Tide’s toxic secret—and she’s shocked that her favorite detergents are contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical!

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To Procter & Gamble: Stop Gambling with Our Health

Posted September 10th, 2012 by

An open letter from Women’s Voices for the Earth to one of the biggest consumer product companies on the planet: make the obvious moral decision to remove a cancer-causing chemical from Tide® and Tide Free & Gentle®.   Dear Mr. McDonald, We’d like to point out some serious discrepancies between P&G’s stated principles and its [...]

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Green Momma Parties Empower Moms with Knowledge & Action

Posted June 21st, 2012 by

Who doesn’t like parties? Especially a party with a purpose – yes, please! Women’s Voices for the Earth’s new Green Momma Parties are the latest DIY party that makes detoxing the home fun (yes, we said “fun”). With a room-by-room guide for eliminating harmful chemicals, do-it-yourself recipes with how-to videos, and easy ways to raise [...]

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Green Momma Twitter Party This Thursday

Posted June 12th, 2012 by

Does the thought of trying to get toxic chemicals out of your home make you want to run screaming in the opposite direction? BPA in cans, cancer-causing chemicals in baby shampoo, hormone disruptors in laundry detergent – do you start to get completely overwhelmed? What if we told you that detoxing your home can actually [...]

Why Toxic Tide Products Are Far From Reassuring

Posted June 7th, 2012 by

Since discovering a known cancer-causing chemical hiding out in Tide Free & Gentle, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) and Healthy Child Healthy World have been mobilizing moms across the country to call on the company to remove 1,4-dioxane. More than 76,000 people have contacted the company asking them to strip the nasty chemical from [...]

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