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Best matchConcernBenzene in Aerosol Sprays: What the Recalls Actually FoundA handful of aerosol dry shampoos and sunscreens were recalled in 2021 and 2022 after independent testing found benzene in specific batches. Here's exactly what was found, where it came from, and what that does — and doesn't — say about the can in your bathroom today.Read the explainerBrands (7)
Only brands- babylettoNothing we found points to a problem with the six babyletto cribs on our solid-wood list: the Consumer Product Safety Commission lists no crib recall under the babyletto name, and babyletto's support page says most of its full-size cribs are solid wood, mostly New Zealand pine. The same company's sister brand DaVinci has had crib recalls (see its profile); none involved a babyletto crib. We rate babyletto acceptable rather than higher because of a July 2025 recall of its Kiwi electronic recliner and glider, which is not a crib: about 9,000 units, 37 reports of the USB module overheating, smoking or sparking, one with a minor injury; the remedy is a free repair kit. If you own a Kiwi, check the recall notice (CPSC 25-392) and request the kit. Two things we could not confirm: babyletto displays GREENGUARD Gold on its cribs, but we could not check UL's register, so treat it as the maker's claim; and no crib page we read names the material of the mattress-support board. If the certificate matters to you, ask babyletto for the GREENGUARD Gold certificate for your model or look the model up on UL's register.Brand
- BadgerBadger is about as straightforward as sunscreen companies get. It is a family-run New Hampshire business that has used mineral (zinc oxide) actives across its sun care line for decades, holds B Corp certification, and certifies its organic claims under the USDA program. Its sunscreens consistently rate low-hazard in EWG's Sunscreen Guide. We found no recall in CPSC records; FDA's enforcement database lists two recalls the company initiated, both now closed — selected lots of its Baby and Kids SPF 30 lotions in September 2013 over microbial contamination, and Adventure Sport SPF 50 in January 2025 because units could ship without the drug facts panel (Class III, FDA's lowest tier) — as of September 2026. The honest trade-off is cosmetic, not safety: mineral formulas go on thicker than chemical sunscreens and can leave a white cast, especially on deeper skin tones.Brand
- California BabyCalifornia Baby is a founder-run Los Angeles company that has been making plant-based baby skincare since 1995, and it does something most brands its size do not: it owns the factory. Controlling your own FDA-registered facility means fewer hands between the formula and the bottle, which is a genuine structural advantage. We found no CPSC or FDA recalls. The reason this is an acceptable rather than a recommended grade is that the brand's central claims — "plant-based", "100% plant-based" — are its own, and we could not verify a third-party certification you could go and check for yourself. Brand
- Each & EveryEach & Every is a founder-run Cincinnati company started by two Procter & Gamble deodorant people who went and made the product they could not buy, and the formula reflects it: six base ingredients, the full list published, no aluminum and — unusually for a natural deodorant — no baking soda, which is the ingredient that causes most of the irritation complaints in this category. The record behind it is genuinely empty: no CPSC recalls, no FDA enforcement records, no California Proposition 65 notices, and no federal docket of any kind. And the certification checks out on the certifier's own register rather than on the label: EWG's EWG VERIFIED program page for this brand lists eight of its deodorants, including "Each & Every Deodorant, Unscented & Fragrance Free" — and the product we link is the unscented stick, sold by Each and Every, whose own Amazon scent selector reads "Scent: Unscented". A certification read on the register plus an empty record is what this file's rubric asks for. Two things to keep straight: EWG's Skin Deep scores for these products are a hazard rating, not the certification, and the two must never be conflated; and the register lists products by scent, so a different variant is a different question. Brand
- LevoitLevoit is the practical answer for a nursery air purifier: true-HEPA filtration at a price that lets you put one in more than one room, which matters more than any single unit's spec sheet. The safety question for an air purifier is not ingredients, it is ozone — some units that ionise the air produce it — and on that Levoit checks out: multiple Levoit models appear on the California Air Resources Board's own list of certified air cleaning devices, each with an executive order number. That is the register that matters for this category. It is worth being clear about what kind of company it is, though — Levoit is a brand of Vesync, which took itself private in 2025, so there is less public company disclosure behind it than the name suggests. No CPSC recalls. Brand
- NaturepedicNaturepedic is the rare case where nearly every claim can be checked by someone other than the company making it. It has been GOTS certified since 2009 — a decade before non-toxic bedding became a marketing category — and the certification covers the whole Chagrin Falls factory, not just a product line. It adds GOLS for latex, MADE SAFE, and GREENGUARD Gold on top of that, and it builds the components in-house rather than assembling someone else's. We found no CPSC recalls and no litigation. For a product a baby sleeps on for twelve hours a day, that combination of independent certification and owned manufacturing is about as good as the evidence gets. Brand
- Torie & HowardTorie & Howard's organic claim is one you can check yourself. The USDA Organic Integrity Database lists American Licorice Co. of La Porte, Indiana as a certified operation under Oregon Tilth, and the certificate names the candy flavor by flavor: Hard Candy (Blood Orange & Honey), Hard Candy (Meyer Lemon & Raspberry), Hard Candy (Pomegranate & Nectarine), Hard Candy (Grapefruit & Tupelo Honey), an assorted-flavor hard candy and the lollipops. That is the certification our Red 40 candy page relies on for this pick, and it holds up on the register rather than only on the label. The panel agrees with it: the brand's own back-of-pack image for the Meyer Lemon & Raspberry tin lists organic sugar, organic rice syrup, citric acid and natural flavors, "Colored with: Red Cabbage, Purple Carrots, Organic Carrot, Organic Apple, Organic Blackcurrant" — no synthetic color. We found no FDA recall, no California Proposition 65 notice and no federal case that names Torie & Howard or any of its products as of 2026-10-12. The parent's record is a separate question and it is not blank: American Licorice recalled Red Vines and Natural Vines black licorice in 2012 after elevated lead was found, and settled a California Proposition 65 licorice case in 2014. Those were licorice products, both recalls are closed, and all of it happened years before American Licorice owned this brand. Brand
Concerns & ingredients (5)
Only concerns & ingredients- Crib mattresses compared by what is insideFive ways a crib mattress is built, what each leaves out, and what the federal rule does and does not tell you. Pick the build first, then check the paperwork.Concern
- Lead & Heavy Metals: What's Regulated, and Where Exposure Still Comes FromLead isn't a contested question the way some items on this list are — CDC states plainly that no safe blood-lead level has been identified in children. What's less settled in most households is where it still gets in, and what's actually banned versus just monitored. Here's both, route by route.Concern
- Lead Safe Mama and the other voices we followIf you landed here looking for Lead Safe Mama, you want Tamara Rubin's site, and the link is right below. We are a different site. This page explains who does what in this small corner of the internet, and who to ask for which question.Concern
- Pool safety fences and gatesHow to inspect the fence you inherited, compare mesh, metal, glass, vinyl and wood, and get quotes for a barrier that fits your pool.Concern
- Talc and Asbestos: What FDA's Testing Has Actually FoundTalc itself isn't the safety question people mean to ask. The real, documented concern is that talc and asbestos can form in the same underground deposits — so talc that isn't mined and processed carefully can carry trace asbestos. Here's what FDA's own testing of cosmetic talc products has actually found.Concern
Cheat sheets (4)
Only cheat sheets- The crib mattress cheat sheetThe at-a-glance version for the one nursery purchase a baby is pressed against for most of its sleeping hours: which certifications measure what, the label words that certify nothing, and the crib mattresses we have read the manufacturer's own page for, sorted by how people actually buy.Cheat sheet
- The mattress topper and protector cheat sheetThe at-a-glance version for the layers you add to a bed you already own: which waterproof layers are vinyl and which are not, what GOTS, GOLS, GREENGUARD Gold, OEKO-TEX and MADE SAFE actually cover, and the toppers, pads and protectors we have read the maker's own page for.Cheat sheet
- The non-toxic mattress cheat sheetThe at-a-glance version for the biggest purchase in the bedroom: what each certification on a mattress measures, how a mattress meets the fire rule, and the adult and kids' twin mattresses sold on Amazon that we could read about, sorted by how people actually buy and ranked on documentation and price.Cheat sheet
- The non-toxic sunscreen cheat sheetThe at-a-glance version: what makes a sunscreen safer, the seven ingredients we skip and why, what the words on the bottle legally mean, and our mineral picks by format. Bookmark it for the season.Cheat sheet
Lists (8)
Only lists- Cheat Sheet: Calendula cream for dry, irritated skinCalendula — pot marigold — is one of the more genuinely studied botanicals in baby skincare, with real (if mixed) clinical evidence behind it rather than just marketing language. This page is about general dry, chapped, or wind-burned skin — chapped cheeks, dry patches, cradle-cap-adjacent scalp skin. For diaper rash specifically, see our separate cheat sheet, linked below.Guide
- Cheat Sheet: Safer diaper rash creamAlmost every diaper rash cream worth using is built around the same active ingredient — zinc oxide — at a different percentage, in a different base. The differences that actually matter are the concentration, whether it's fragranced, and how forthcoming the company is about the rest of the tube.Guide
- Cheat sheet: safer hand sanitizersThe instinct is to reach for 'alcohol-free' as the gentler choice. It's backwards — alcohol is what makes a hand sanitizer work, and the FDA's own contamination warnings have targeted imported and off-brand product, not the alcohol itself. Here's what actually makes a hand sanitizer both effective and worth trusting.Guide
- Non-Toxic Crayons: What the Seal Covers, What the Wax Is, and What We'd BuyEvery crayon sold in the US has to be reviewed by a toxicologist and labeled to a federal standard, so "non-toxic" on the box does not separate one brand from another. What does differ is whether the maker says what the wax is, whether a seal can be looked up, and what age it is made for. Here is what Crayola, Faber-Castell and Prang say, and what we found on the pages of the makers behind our picks.Guide
- Organic infant formula cheat sheetEvery infant formula sold in the US has to clear the same FDA nutritional and safety bar. Organic formula is a different choice about ingredient sourcing, not a different safety tier — here is what that distinction actually means when you are standing in the aisle.Guide
- SafeMama's Safer Toy GuideThe original version of this guide ran in 2008, the same year Congress passed the law that rewrote U.S. toy safety from the ground up. That law is old news now — it's been the baseline for well over a decade. Here's what actually governs a toy sold in the U.S. today, and why wood, as a category, sidesteps most of the questions this guide used to have to ask.Guide
- Solid wood cribs: our picks, and what to check before you buyEight solid-pine cribs we checked on the makers' own pages, what to verify before you buy, and where to go next for the mattress that goes inside.Guide
- Stainless Steel Sippy Cups: What the Lid and Spout Are Made OfA steel body takes the plastic out of the cup. The lid, spout or straw is still the part that touches your child's mouth, and most makers do not say what it is. Here is what the makers' own pages say about it for the stainless cups we could read, which cups name their materials, and what none of them tells you.Guide