Home care, scored on published evidence

LowTox Review compares everyday home care products on the evidence a buyer can check without a laboratory: the ingredient list a brand publishes, whether the product puts polyvinyl alcohol down the drain, what a single use costs, what the packaging is made of, and which third-party marks the product actually carries.

Nothing here is scored on cleaning power. No laboratory tests have been run, and a performance score without a test behind it would be a made-up number. When testing starts it will be described and photographed, and until then the pages say so. Every figure on every page is dated and linked to the page it came from.

Eight more categories are researched and not yet published. They go up in this order:

• Dish soap: solid bars, refillable concentrate and plastic bottles
• Hand soap: refillable concentrate against pre-filled plastic
• Scrub sponges: plastic, cellulose and loofah
• Dish brushes: bamboo and sisal against plastic and nylon
• Bottle brushes: natural fibre against plastic
• Dryer balls: hemp, wool and dryer sheets
• Food storage: compostable, zip bags, silicone and beeswax
• Stain removers and boosters: oxygen, chlorine and sprays

Nothing above is linked, because nothing above is published. When a category goes up it appears in the list here and in the navigation, with the date it was checked.