I am a crankier-than-usual consumer lately, and (lucky, lucky!) you get to hear me vent, interwebs.<\/p>\n
First of all, sunscreen. So sunscreen is non-negotiable for me, since I am so pale as to practically fluoresce. Last year’s sunscreen was kind of icky and it’s nearly gone anyway, and it’s getting too warm for my SPF 45 moisturizer. So I headed over to Skin Deep<\/a> to research this year’s offerings.<\/p>\n Holy cow, did you know that there’s this chemical called oxybenzone<\/a> that’s no good for people? So no good, in fact, that the CDC just released a study on how no good it is. Why, pray tell, is it in many suncreens on the market? And lip balms too?<\/p>\n I got all crazed and ran around the house throwing out sunscreens + chapsticks last night, then printed out a list of safe sunscreens from Skin Deep. Jonathan went to the coop this morning but the sunscreens aren’t going to be in until tomorrow, drat.<\/p>\n Secondly, plastics! Namely bisphenol-a. You may have seen recent reports<\/a> about cancer and endocrine disruption from bisphenol-a leaching into food + drink from hard plastic (often #7) containers. Longtime (snort) readers may remember that I came early to the Nalgene-haters party and chucked all of our plastic water bottles years ago<\/a>, replacing them with metal.<\/p>\n But now I am annoyed anew, because apparently this BPA stuff is also in the plastic used to coat the inside of cans of food. And also because I’d thought it was only Nalgene, but really it’s ALL hard plastic (e.g. our water filter pitcher). And ALSO because at the bottom of the Times article some scientist says not to microwave anything in plastic because we just don’t know<\/i>.<\/p>\n I take my lunch to work. I LIKE taking my lunch to work. It’s cheaper, tastier and healthier. But I tried taking lunch in a glass jar last year and the jar cracked + made a mess (thankfully a small crack + a small mess). This year, with the walking to work, I really have to use plastic to cart lunch back + forth.<\/p>\n I am SO TIRED of worrying that everything we use is toxic. Can there please just be some regulation, oh government regulatory agencies? Pretty please???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a crankier-than-usual consumer lately, and (lucky, lucky!) you get to hear me vent, interwebs. First of all, sunscreen. So sunscreen is non-negotiable for me, since I am so pale as to practically fluoresce. Last year’s sunscreen was kind of icky and it’s nearly gone anyway, and it’s getting too warm for my SPF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}