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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Chips Ahoy! Crunch time for 10 health-food-store potato-chip brands	Tom Philpott	26 Aug 2008	The Bottom Line
Chip shot. Photo: Maria Falgoust As a cook, I gravitate toward fresh, whole ingredients. I prefer whole foods as an eater, too -- unless there's an open bag of potato chips nearby. My usual strategy is to avoid proximity to open bags of chips. But because of my lamentable chip-love, I couldn't resist this assignment: taste-testing health-food-store potato-chip brands. I figured finding green-ish c ...
Topics: advice, food, green living, green products, shopping, The Bottom Line (all these topics)

Scents and Sensibility Making a stink about green(ish) deodorants	Kate Sheppard	12 Aug 2008	The Bottom Line
Choosing a deodorant can be the pits. Upon moving to Washington, D.C., about a year ago, I quickly realized two things: Our Nation's Capitol was built on a swamp and The Hill is called that for a reason. So biking -- my chief form of transit in the city -- can be quite the damp, smelly affair. After arriving at more than a few congressional hearings smelling certifiably ripe, I realized my hippie stick ...
Topics: advice, green living, green products, health, shopping, The Bottom Line, toxics (all these topics)

Swat Team A buzzworthy review of DEET-free bug repellents	Sarah van Schagen	29 Jul 2008	The Bottom Line
Itchin' to scratch that itch. They say the ants go marching one by one. That may be so. But the flying, nibbling critters -- the mosquitoes, the gnats, and the flies -- come in swarms. How to keep them at bay? Unfortunately, many of the insect repellents on the shelves today contain the chemical DEET. Developed by the U.S. Army for use in jungle warfare during World War II, DEET is considered a moderat ...
Topics: advice, green living, green products, health, shopping, The Bottom Line, toxics (all these topics)

I Think You Sink A test of six green dish soaps	Katharine Wroth	17 Jun 2008	The Bottom Line
Clean for a day. Ah, dish duty. Who hasn't ignored it, dreaded it, rock-paper-scissored over it? But there comes a time in each eater's life when dishes must be done. Happily, today's generation of eco-detergents makes it a less-toxic task than in the past -- though not completely pure. When I set out to test six "eco" dish soaps, I had little idea of the sudsy morass I was about to wade into. For the mos ...
Topics: advice, green living, green products, health, shopping, The Bottom Line (all these topics)

Made In a Shave A dozen men's shaving creams get put to the blade	Tom Philpott	20 May 2008	The Bottom Line
The best a man can get? For men, shaving surely ranks as one of our most bizarre daily rituals: We take a razor-sharp blade, scald it hot with water, and scrape the hair off of our faces and necks -- even the regions over our jugular veins. Yikes. And to complicate matters yet more, we tend to lubricate the process with gels and foams full of all sorts of dodgy and toxic chemicals. Like the hard sla ...
Topics: advice, green living, green products, shopping, The Bottom Line (all these topics)

Tough as Nails A five-fingered review of less-toxic nail polishes	Sarah van Schagen	06 May 2008	The Bottom Line
If you've ever gone in for a manicure and, getting a good whiff of the stuff, wondered what sort of chemicals create a smell like that, you've hit the nail polish issue on the head. Those tiny little glass bottles of paint that we apply so gingerly to our fingernails and toenails -- and unless you're a manicure Michelangelo, often our skin as well -- contain a long list of chemicals, some of th ...
Topics: advice, green living, green products, health, shopping, The Bottom Line, toxics (all these topics)

Through a Glass, Darkly A tasting of seven organic beers	Tom Philpott	08 Apr 2008	The Bottom Line
Can't get enough of that frothy stuff. Photo: iStockphoto Why is beer so good? The question has perplexed humanity since the dawn of agricultural civilization 10,000 years ago. Archeological records show that beer-making evolved with bread-making: both are ways of using fermentation to preserve grain, the first cultivated crop. To make beer, you let grain seeds germinate, mash them, hit them with some hot wa ...
Topics: advice, green living, green products, shopping, The Bottom Line (all these topics)

It's a Wash A review of six green laundry detergents	Sarah van Schagen	26 Feb 2008	The Bottom Line
Let's get down and dirty ... about your laundry habits. You may think you're in the clear, but every time you use your conventional, chemical-filled detergent, you could be affecting your health -- as well as the health of waterways downstream. That doesn't sound so fresh (and so clean, clean), so I decided to seek out green laundry detergents and find out which one performs best. Lean, green, cleaning mac ...
Topics: advice, green cleaning, green living, green products, health, shopping, The Bottom Line (all these topics)

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