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Your guide to reducing your chemical body load and living a healthier life.

Everyday Toxic Chemicals: How to Protect Your Health

Everyday Toxic Chemicals: How to Protect Your Health

You might have heard about “endocrine disrupting chemicals,” “hormone disrupting chemicals” or “EDCs.” These are all terms for the same thing: toxic chemicals that mess up hormones. BPA (bisphenol A) is a well-known example.  But what exactly are the toxic...

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Chemical Exposure and Pregnancy

Chemical Exposure and Pregnancy

Critical Times Of Development. Exposure to environmental chemicals, especially when the eggs and sperm are being formed, the fetus is developing in the womb, and during early childhood, contribute to the root cause of so many health conditions and diseases....

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From Personal Experience

From Personal Experience

I’m Sara, co-founder of Hugh & Grace. My husband and I created our company based on what we learned during our 14-year struggle with unexplained infertility.

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Simple Swaps: Purifying Cleansing Bar

Simple Swaps: Purifying Cleansing Bar

This is our third edition of the Simple Swap series, where we recommend creative ways you can substitute Hugh & Grace products in place of products that you already use, which may have high toxin counts. By doing this, you can drastically reduce your exposure to harmful Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, or EDCs.

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Simple Swaps: Restoring Face Serum

Simple Swaps: Restoring Face Serum

This is the second of three blogs in our Simple Swap series, where we recommend creative ways you can substitute Hugh & Grace products in place of products that you already use, which may have high toxin counts. By doing this, you can drastically reduce your exposure to harmful Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, or EDCs. In this post, we’ll be exploring 12 ways that you can use the Restoring Face Serum.

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EDCs in Skin Care: Ingredients to Avoid

EDCs in Skin Care: Ingredients to Avoid

In the United States, skin care products are not well regulated or screened for true safety. While other countries have banned hundreds of ingredients in personal care products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned only 11 chemicals. ...

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