What we check for,
and what we cannot claim
Every product in the shop passed a check. These are the checks, written out — the studies behind them, the numbers, and the places where the evidence runs thin.
The chemicals that do not wash off
Researchers tested 231 cosmetics for the marker of “forever chemicals”. More than half carried it — and almost none of them said so on the label.
One word, three thousand ingredients
“Fragrance” is a single line on a label and a legal shelter for thousands of chemicals. Here is how that happened, and what it means for a shopping list.
What a singing bowl actually does
One study, sixty-two people, and a result worth taking seriously — as long as you also take seriously what it cannot tell you.
The honest case for a magnesium bath
The popular claim is that magnesium soaks in through your skin. The evidence for that is weak. The bath is still worth having, for reasons that hold up better.
The one food change with a trial behind it
Stanford put 36 people on ten weeks of fermented food. Microbial diversity went up, and nineteen inflammatory proteins went down. This is what “food as medicine” looks like when it is real.
What the plants can and cannot do
Chamomile and valerian are the two most-recommended sleep herbs in the world. The trials are smaller and softer than the recommendations. That is worth knowing before you buy either.
We write these before we choose a product, not after. Nothing in the journal is sponsored.