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What's hiding in a "clean" home
"Smells clean" is doing a lot of quiet work. Here's what the scent is usually covering for.
Synthetic fragrance
One word on the label, legally allowed to hide dozens of undisclosed chemicals.
Quats (-onium chloride)
The disinfecting agents in most sprays and wipes. Documented skin and lung irritants.
VOCs in the air
Volatile compounds that off-gas while you clean and linger long after.
Residue you live against
The scented film left on counters, floors, and the clothes on your skin.
Indoor air you breathe
Often several times more polluted than the air outside, per the EPA.
Which of these is in your home?
Find out in two minutes →
The case, in four figures
more polluted indoor air can be vs. outdoors
U.S. EPA
of chemicals one "fragrance" line can hide
FDA labeling rules
of our time is spent indoors
U.S. EPA
products is all most homes actually need
Newfase reporting
From "wait, what's in this?" to a home you trust
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Verified, no-spin breakdowns of what is in your products and what it does. Sourced to EPA, FDA, CDC, never invented.
Score your home
Our Home Toxin Score reads your actual routine in two minutes and hands you the three changes that matter most.
Make the swaps
We point you to what we would use ourselves, including the Havenly cleaning kit. Always disclosed, never hyped.
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The Symptom Sufferer
Headaches, eczema, allergies that no cream or pill has fixed.
Read for this →The Protective Parent
Kids and pets on the floor, and a cabinet full of question marks.
Read for this →The Wellness Optimizer
You filter your water. The home is your next variable.
Read for this →The Eco Switcher
Non-toxic and planet-friendly, minus the greenwash.
Read for this →The Skeptical Scrutinizer
You read labels. We hand you the loopholes they beat you with.
Read for this →A resource library, not a blog
Tools that turn the reporting into changes you can make this week. More dropping as we build.
Home Toxin Score
Score your routine, get your top three swaps.
Coming soonIngredient Decoder
Paste a label, get a plain-English read on every line.
Coming soonClean Swap Finder
Your current brand, decoded, with the better swap.
Coming soonThe Swap Guides
Room-by-room PDFs of what to replace first.
The cleaning aisle is built to make you feel something, not to tell you anything. Newfase reads the fine print, checks it against the science, and hands you the part that's true. No hype. No fabrication. Just a clearer view of the place you spend ninety percent of your life.
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The honest FAQ
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The reporting, the tools, and the newsletter are all free. We make money when readers buy products we recommend, including the Havenly cleaning kit, and we disclose that everywhere.
Are cleaning products really a problem? +
Not all of them, and not in a panic way. The EPA notes indoor air can be far more polluted than outdoor air, and cleaning products are a controllable contributor. We report what the evidence actually says, with sources, so you can decide.
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We report on exposure and ingredients and cite real sources (EPA, FDA, CDC, peer-reviewed work). We never diagnose or fabricate statistics, and nothing here is medical advice.
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