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Healthy Building Materials Guides, Chemical Hazard Databases, and More
EWG’s Home Guide
The Environmental Working Group offers free general guidance for healthier building materials, as well as some household goods like mattresses and water filters. Information is high level, providing general guidance, not specific brands or ingredients. An excellent starting point for remodelers.
Parsons Healthy Materials Lab
Another great starting point for general guidance across several categories of building materials, with a clear focus on human health impact. An excellent starting point for remodelers.
Healthy Building Network
Free, easy-to-use, lists ranked from healthiest to least healthy for each category of building materials. Information is high level, providing general guidance, not specific brands or ingredients. An excellent starting point for remodelers. Can upgrade to professional-level Pharos database for more specific products with chemical hazard information.
a/A Architecture
Free, detailed, and easy-to-use guide from an architecture firm focused on using healthy, conscious, and durable materials. Stricter standards set for human health, and wider range of material options, than other guides. Also highly recommend working with them if you are doing remodel.
Will + Perkins Transparency
The Precautionary List database allows you to sort by human health concern (reproductive toxicity, eye irritation, etcetera) and generates a list of chemicals in common interior products and building materials that may contribute to those concerns.
Mindful Materials
A large database of specific products, generally for professional and commercial use. Not specific for human health, but can sort with this criterion. Evaluates products based on their ecological health, social health, equity, and impact on humans.
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
The Collaborative for Health and Environment has an easy-to-use, searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.
ECHA
If you’re unsure of the health effects of any chemical listed in a product’s ingredients, search for them in the European Chemicals Agency database by name or CAS number. Easy to use.
ILFI’s Declare
The International Living Future Institute’s large database of specific products, generally for professional and commercial use. Declare labels are like nutritional labels for furniture and building materials. There are three levels, graded on level of disclosure (the highest standard is 100% disclosure at 100ppm) and whether or not any of the ingredients are found on the Red List.
HPD-C
The Health Product Declaration Collaborative includes a database of products that have disclosed their ingredients and their impact on human health.
