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Read Dr. Aly Cohen’s New Article – The Price Of Beauty: How To Detoxify Your Make-up Routine

In this article, Dr. Aly Cohen shares her personal journey of cleaning up her own beauty routine and offers practical, science-based tips to help you detoxify your makeup and personal-care products — without sacrificing your look. From smarter swaps to prioritizing what matters most, you’ll learn how small changes can dramatically reduce your toxic load […]

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Cosmetics with guest Dr. Yvonne Burkart – The Smart Human Podcast Episode #26

Cosmetics with guest Dr. Yvonne Burkart – The Smart Human Podcast Episode #36

Dr. Yvonne Burkart is a PhD Toxicologist, Mom of two, and Consultant. She is a 23-year veteran of Toxicology with expertise in reproductive toxicity, particularly endocrine disruption, infertility, cancer, and glutathione homeostasis. She has also served as a Senior Toxicologist in the flavor and fragrance chemical industry where she helped to ensure the safety of […]

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Chemicals In Personal Care Products

In this video, Dr. Aly Cohen, founder of The Smart Human, discusses the chemicals in our personal care products. To begin with, and this is key, personal care products and their ingredients are not regulated in the United States. That’s right. Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, all of those products that we rub, […]

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Education in Environmental Health a Needed Tool In Ongoing Efforts to Grow Healthy Children in U.S.

To the Editor: Every day, the United States alone uses or imports about 42 million pounds of synthetic chemicals. There are more than 84,000 compounds approved for commercial use in the U.S., most of which have never been tested for toxicity. A 2011 Policy Statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges that the […]

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