Micro Detox

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24 guided paths to help you start with the areas that matter most — from first steps to room-by-room resets.

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New to this? These five short paths explain the approach.

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Micro Detox Basics

What Micro Detox is — a calm, evidence-calibrated guide to everyday chemicals, materials, and product claims — and what it is not: not medical advice, not a fear campaign, not a supplement seller.

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Small Exposures Add Up

The core idea: many everyday products contribute small, repeated exposures. The goal is lowering the cumulative baseline, not panicking about any one item.

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What to Check First

The few levers that give the most benefit: heating food in plastic, fragrance on skin and in air, PFAS on waterproof/stain-resistant items, ventilation and dust.

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No Fear, No Supplements

Why Micro Detox avoids fearmongering, corrects common myths, and never recommends detox supplements, cleanses, or 'remove these toxins' products.

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How to Read Labels

What common label claims actually mean: which are useful (fragrance-free, partial BPA-free), which mislead (unscented, microwave safe), and which flag PFAS (waterproof, stain-resistant).

High-Impact Habits

The few changes that lower the most repeated exposure.

High-Impact Habits

Stop Heating Plastic

Plastic food contact under heat: microwaving, hot leftovers, dishwasher, and scratched containers.

High-Impact Habits

Go Fragrance-Free First

Fragrance in skin products, laundry, cleaning, candles, and air fresheners — the most repeated avoidable exposure.

High-Impact Habits

Skip Air Fresheners

Plug-ins, sprays, reed diffusers, wax melts, and incense — continuous fragrance/VOCs with no function.

High-Impact Habits

Low Cost First Steps

Zero- and low-cost behaviours: ventilating, reheating in glass, shoes off, washing new clothes, declining stain-treatment, e-receipts.

Everyday Exposure

Room through your routine, product type by product type.

Everyday Exposure

Plastic & Food Contact

Plastic containers, water bottles, baby bottles, lunch boxes, canned-food linings, cling wrap, takeaway containers, and food packaging.

Everyday Exposure

Fragrance & Indoor Air

Perfume, scented candles, air fresheners and plug-ins, reed diffusers, scented laundry, and the indoor-air load they create.

Everyday Exposure

Cookware & Heat

Frying pans, bakeware, utensils, and what happens when each material meets high heat.

Everyday Exposure

Laundry & Clothing

Detergents and softeners, synthetic fabrics, wrinkle-free and stain-resistant finishes, and microfibre shedding.

Everyday Exposure

Baby & Kids Products

Baby bottles, wipes, lotions, pacifiers and teethers, toys, sleepwear, and crib mattresses.

Everyday Exposure

Cleaning Products

All-purpose sprays, disinfecting wipes and sprays, bleach and bathroom cleaners, glass cleaner, and dish products.

Everyday Exposure

Personal Care Labels

Shampoo, conditioner, body wash, lotion, deodorant, perfume, sunscreen, and the fragrance/preservative claims on them.

Everyday Exposure

Oral Care Basics

Toothpaste (including kids'), mouthwash, dental floss, toothbrushes, whitening, and appliances.

Room Resets

Reset one room at a time — no overhaul required.

Room Resets

Kitchen Reset

A room-by-room reset: storage containers, cookware, water bottles, cling film, and food packaging.

Room Resets

Bathroom Reset

Personal-care and oral-care items in the bathroom, plus fragrance sources.

Room Resets

Laundry Reset

Detergent, fabric softener, dryer sheets, scent beads, and what they leave on fabric.

Room Resets

Bedroom Reset

Bedding, mattresses and protectors, candles/diffusers, and bedroom dust.

Life Stages

Guidance tuned to pregnancy, sensitive skin, and little ones.

Life Stages

Pregnancy-Friendly Swaps

Food storage, fragrance, cleaning, and personal-care choices that lower everyday exposure during pregnancy.

Life Stages

Sensitive Skin

Fragrance, dyes, and preservatives (MI/MCI, formaldehyde releasers) in skin products and laundry.

Life Stages

Babies & Toddlers

Feeding, skin care, mouthed items, sleepwear, and the air and dust in a child's space.

Follow these paths in the app

Each topic is a guided path in the Micro Detox app — with label words to check, a first step, and practical swaps.