The App

The Greening Your Family App is a road map for making safe product choices for you and your family. Do you wonder if you should buy organic or conventionally grown apples? Want to know which fish varieties have the least environmental contaminants? What about the safest brands of children’s shampoo or toothpaste to buy? This app answers all of these questions and more.

The app is designed to make it easy for you to minimize you and your family’s exposure to harmful chemicals found in many of the products that line the grocery store shelves. It is based on the award-winning book titled Greening Your Family, by Lindsey Carmichael, MPH. The Greening Your Family app a distilled version of the book with advice and brand recommendations for everything from dishwasher soap to deodorant.

Features:

• Extensive information covering three broad categories: food, personal care and cleaning products
• Recommendations for safe brands of products in each category
• Information about ingredients to avoid in conventional products
• Ability to create a ‘favorites’ list for quick access at the store
• Easy social network integration for Facebook and Twitter
• Updates ensuring current information about the ever changing green products landscape
• Safe Guide to Plastics for foods
• Guide to House Plants That Purify the Air in your home
• Labeling information
• Table of the top 15 ingredients to avoid in personal care products