Very GoodGuide
Increasingly, you want to know about the impacts of the products you buy. On your health. On the environment. On society. If you are, then you should check out Goodguide.com. On the site, you’ll be able to learn about the truth behind the products you commonly use. GoodGuide takes the “Consumer Reports” concept to the Nth degree. It’s not just price information and consumer reviews available at the Web site: Ratings on a scale of 1 to 10 are based on the chemicals used in a product, what impact its production had on the environment, and whether or not the company that makes it is socially responsible.
A rating for a particular brand of shampoo, for example, will include testing to determine if carcinogens are included in the ingredients, or whether animal testing is involved, or produced by a company that has faced labor violations. Those ratings and recommendations do include data provided by non-profit groups, but most of the information comes from GoodGuide’s team of scientists and experts.
GoodGuide aggregates these findings on over 61,000 everyday products – cleaning solutions, baby care products, hair care, etc – and provides ratings and rankings of each. but Moloney-Egnatios says more categories will be added by the end of the year. You can search by product category or brand name to get their rating. Click on the product and, voila, you see the individual ratings for the product in each of the categories listed above. You can even construct online shopping lists based on the info or a “products to avoid list”
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