Reports & Guides
We're pleased to provide reports, fact sheets and guides to help you make safer purchasing and lifestyle choices for everyday living. Check back frequently, visit our Viewpoint blog, or sign up for our newsletter to get updates, as new science is always emerging, new ingredients are being examined, and new products are becoming MADE SAFE® Certified. Also, if you don’t see a topic you're curious about listed, please reach out and let us know!
BABY + CHILD
The Healthy Baby Guide
MADE SAFE and Plastic Pollution Coalition outline how chemicals can affect not just the environment, but also the human body and particularly growing babies, infants, and children. Sign up to receive a digital copy!
BEDDING
Sleep Safe: Tips for Choosing a Safer Mattress
A quick guide to understanding the key chemicals of concern in conventional mattresses and shopping tips for a safer mattress.
BEDDING
Detox Your Sleep: Toxic Chemicals in Bedding, Safer Alternatives & Certified Products for Healthier Sleep
Mattresses and bedding can contain toxic chemicals linked to serious health problems – reading this report is the first step to safer sleep.
BEDDING
MADE SAFE Guide to Healthier & Ecosystem-Friendly Dorm Room Bedding
An overview of what’s inside dorm bedding and mattresses, as well as safer options and buying solutions.
FASHION
Sustainable Fashion: An Approachable Guide
Detailed yet flexible steps to get you started on the path to a more sustainable wardrobe.
HEALTH
Lice: Treatment & Prevention
Kick lice to the curb without high risk pesticides potentially harmful to your family and the environment.
HOUSEHOLD
All About PFAS: Per- & Poly- Fluoroalkyl Substances
A summary of health and environmental concerns regarding substances that provide water, stain, and grease resistance.
HOUSEHOLD
EDCs in the Home
Continuous exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), even at low levels, can disturb the intricate workings of our body’s endocrine system.
HOUSEHOLD
What’s Inside Detergent Pods & Sheets
Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is a synthetic plastic polymer used to wrap or suspend detergent formulations. While marketed as a sustainable water-soluble solution, in most situations it disappears but doesn’t degrade.
HOUSEHOLD
What’s Inside Wipes
Conventional wipes wreak havoc on sewer systems when flushed, don’t break down in the environment, and can contain toxic ingredients. Learn more in our in-depth report.
LIFESTYLE
Healthy Living with MADE SAFE: Best Practices
Some of our best tips for healthy living, for anyone looking to cultivate healthier lifestyle habits and a safer home environment.
NANOPARTICLES
How Nanomaterials Measure Up
MADE SAFE is concerned with the frequency of use of nanoparticles, as we don’t believe nanomaterials have been properly assessed for human or environmental health effects.
PERSONAL CARE
Period Products: Tips for a Healthier Period & Planet
Tips for choosing period products that are friendly to your body and to ecosystems.
PERSONAL CARE
Safe Sun: Tips for Choosing a Safer Sunscreen
Sunscreens contain ingredients that are associated with negative human and environmental impacts. This fact sheet overviews those ingredients and how to avoid them.
PREGNANCY
The Healthy Pregnancy Guide
MADE SAFE and Plastic Pollution Coalition combine their collective expertise to promote a healthy start for you and your family. Sign up to receive a digital copy!
REPELLENTS
Bug Repellent: Active Ingredient Alternatives
Learn about alternative ways to help keep bugs at bay.
REPELLENTS
Bug Repellent: Chemicals of Concern
This fact sheet overviews active ingredients used in insect repellent and their concerns.
REPELLENTS
What’s Inside Bug Repellent
A quick guide to understanding key chemicals of concern in bug repellent, as well as safer options.
REPELLENTS
Bug Repellent: What’s In It
This deep-dive report includes information on common active ingredients in conventional insect repellent, their impacts on human health and the environment, plus safer options.
SCHOOL
Safer School Supply Solutions
This guide rounds up our favorite tips for choosing safer school supplies.