Healthy Households

We were sent a press release about a great new website called HEALTHSHARE. Partnering with a large number of credible organisations (including Beyond Blue, Brain Injury Australia, Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia, Lifeline, Leukaemia Foundation, Pallative Care Australia and many many others), this website is a source of information and a way of communicating with others [...]

Anyone who has purchased Decor thermo glass cookware from Coles between 19th July and 2nd August 2011 is urged to take it back. An official recall was announced and then re-announced when the issue was discovered to be wider spread than the original 13 suspected cases. We commend Decor for their quick action and public service [...]

I love it when celebritities lend themselves to causes that aren’t necessarily glamorous. We stumbled upon a fantastically written and well produced mockumentary with the voice of Jeremy Iron - you may know him as the scary guy from Die Hard 3 who steals all the gold, or more recently, the robed gentleman in The Borgias. [...]

The makers of Invisible Zinc are apparently in hot water after the TGA asked them to remove references to ‘nano free’ from their website (http://www.invisiblezinc.com/). Why you ask? Is Invisible Zinc all of a sudden filled with nano particles? Hell no. Apparently saying the sunscreen is nano free implies that other natural sunscreen brands have nano [...]

Controversial full-body airport scanners have been found to be just as likely to kill you as a terrorist bomb. An article on news.com.au explains that the greatest concern is if the machines malfunction and deliver a higher dose of radiation. The Transport Security Administration advertise the amount of radiation to 1/1oooth of a standard x-ray, [...]

It’s refreshing to see the dangers of Bisphenol-A hitting the mainstream media. Consumer advocacy group Choice are demanding that BPA be removed from tinned foodthat are fed to infants and toddlers in Australia. 38 samples were tested, and of those, 29 were revealed to have potentially harmful levels of BPA. These weren’t no name brands either, three [...]

It’s a very very small step in a much larger solution, and that’s the widespread selling of toxic baby bottles in Australia. In news released 1st July 2010, a small group of retailers, Wesfarmers, Woolworths, Big W and Aldi will be phasing out the sale of baby bottles containing Bisphenol-A. Read the FSANZ press release [...]

On Sunrise this morning, there was an interview with toxicoligist Dr Peter Dingle, talking about the giant cocktail of dangerous chemicals found in the average home. At Shop Naturally, we have sourced the safest & hardworking natural cleaning products on the market. There is no need to buy toxic cleaning products from the supermarket. Most supermarkets have [...]