The magic behind the magic. The future of the Seal is brighter than ever, Jennings said. The Institute is also experimenting with Amazon Alexa skills, expanding original digital content and bringing their expertise to key cultural conversations, such as sustainability and air quality control.
Despite all of the change that has occurred in recent years in the consumer marketplace, the goals of the Seal remain steady and true. Just another day at the office not! Cc don. View this post on Instagram. Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation , featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles.
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Throughout its history, Good Housekeeping has been the go-to magazine for American women, providing them with news, trends, real-life and fiction stories, advice, recipes, and product recommendations. Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include Somerset Maugham, Edna St. The Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel House at the Chicago World's Fair was a showcase for affordable, fireproof, prefabricated housing that blended modern technology and furnishings. Countless celebrities, political leaders, advice gurus like Heloise and Peggy Post , and famous chefs have been featured in the magazine.
Yet what sets Good Housekeeping apart from all other women's magazines is that its beauty, home organizing, cleaning, nutrition, cooking and home appliance, consumer electronic, and other product recommendations are based on the expertise of the Good Housekeeping Institute. And the thousands of recipes that are printed in the magazine, online, and numerous Good Housekeeping cookbooks are all triple tested in the Test Kitchen at the Good Housekeeping Institute.
The invention of electricity had introduced many new labor-saving home appliances but few consumers had any real knowledge of their operation and maintenance. With the goal of studying "the problems facing the homemaker and to develop up-to-date firsthand information on solving them," the staff at the GH Experiment Station tested products and housekeeping methods and published articles about their discoveries and observations.
They also reprinted advice from readers who wrote them. One reader offered a cure for callouses she used olive oil and cotton ; another reader advised about how to launder lace drapes; and another gave tips about the best way to clean a meat chopper. Concerned about adulteration and misbranding, home economists on staff also tested foods for purity and published, starting in , a "Roll of Honor for Pure Food Products" each month.
All this testing at what was now called the Good Housekeeping Institute resulted, in December , with the beginning of the "Tested and Approved List" of all household products that were found to meet the Institute's standards of excellence.
Good Housekeeping's Seal became so well known that, it has become part of the lexicon with celebrities, governments, manufacturers, basically — everyone — using it. Today the Good Housekeeping Institute is located in the Hearst Tower in New York City and staffed by chemists, biologists, nutritionists, engineers, home economists, and culinary experts who evaluate thousands of consumer products each year, from microwaves and mascaras to vacuums and towels. These reviews are highlighted in the magazine and online.
From its beginning, Good Housekeeping has been a champion of consumer interests. Here are some of the highlights of Good Housekeeping 's advocacy for American families. Good Housekeeping publishes its first issue in May Good Housekeeping regularly publishes articles about food safety and food adulteration. Including ones about milk dealers adding water and dangerous preservatives to their product September , candy being contaminated with pulverized asbestos and other hazardous ingredients February 18, , adulterated chocolate , spices and coffee.
What begins as reportorial items in the magazine changes toward the end of the century when Good Housekeeping takes a more active role in calling for government action.
Good Housekeeping publishes a piece by Harvey Wiley on "Injurious Food Adjuncts" which addresses the problem of formaldehyde in infants' formula, milk and cream. Good Housekeeping staffers persuade a builder and an architect to install the Experiment Station sinks at a comfortable 36 inches, which establishes the standard height for all kitchen sinks and counters.
Before this, sinks were built low to the ground, requiring users to bend over. The Good Housekeeping Seal launches with a list of twenty-one consumer products are listed in the issue. Any product that withstands the investigation of the Institute staff is eligible to be included in the newly developed "Tested and Approved" products to be published in the magazine. The Experiment Station is renamed the Good Housekeeping Institute, a facility on the street level of the Good Housekeeping building in Springfield, Massachusetts which included a model kitchen, domestic science laboratory, and test stations.
Thomas Edison predicts in a GH interview the liberating impact electric household appliances will have on American women. His articles in Good Housekeeping about deceptive food labeling and practices and food safety problems as well as his answers to reader questions in the "Question Box" feature often reflect wisdom and insights that are way ahead of their time.
Who was Dr. Harvey Wiley? It's a sweet story: Honey turned Harvey Wiley, M. Born in , Wiley fought in the Civil War, went to medical school, then taught chemistry.
In , fiddling with a polariscope, a device for measuring stress in glass, Wiley examined various transparent foods and was shocked to learn that what companies were passing off as pure honey was mainly glucose.
Thus began his lifelong campaign against mislabeled and dangerous products. He spent 29 years as the chief of the U. At GH from to , he alerted readers to food frauds such as the treatment of spoiled vegetables with chemicals to "revive" them. In , Wiley sued Coca-Cola for failing to label the soda as containing habit-forming caffeine. He lost the headline-making case, but it paved the way for future truth-in-labeling laws. At a time white rice and white bread are touted as "pure," Dr.
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