The Journal

The Best Low-Tox Cleaning Products in Australia, and How We Score Them

Our highest-scoring low-tox cleaners for dishes, laundry, glass, bathrooms and floors, how we score them against the Pūrē Standard, and where even our favourites fall short.

Do Low-Tox Cleaners Actually Work? An Honest Answer

The polite version of a blunter question: if I give up the blue spray, does my house still get clean. A straight answer, including the part where we retire a low-tox myth of our own.

What 'Low-Tox' Actually Means, and What the Label Is Not Required to Tell You

Low-tox has no legal definition, and in Australia the mandatory ingredient-labelling standard covers cosmetics, not the spray you use on the bench. Here is what that changes about how you read a la...