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What Makes a Deodorant Sustainable? A Field Guide

What makes a deodorant actually sustainable? A sustainable deodorant is aluminum-free, made with certified-organic plant ingredients, carries no synthetic fragrance, and lasts long enough that you buy fewer of them. The formula does the work. The rest is marketing. The...

What's Actually in Your Soap? A Label-Reading Field Guide

What is actually in a bar of soap? Real soap is three things: oils, lye, and time. The reaction is called saponification, and what it leaves behind is soap plus natural glycerin. Everything else on a label is either helping...

Australian Tea Tree Soap: The T2 Bar, Explained

What is Australian tea tree soap? Australian tea tree soap is a bar built around tea tree oil grown in Australia, prized for a sharp, clean scent and a cool tingle on the skin. T2 carries one farm's oil at...

Spirulina Soap: What It Does, and the A.S.K Bar

What does spirulina actually do in a bar of soap? Spirulina is a blue-green algae that lifts dirt and oil while the bar cleans, so skin rinses clean and reads brighter. It gives A.S.K its deep green color and does...