8 Best Weed Killers of 2021
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After spending hours edging the lawn, tending to flower beds or walkways, the last thing you want is pesky weeds popping up and making your newly pristine landscape unsightly. The occasional weed can easily be pulled out by hand but with multiple weeds plucking them one by one can quickly become a time-consuming chore making weed killers a popular choice because they can kill a lot of weeds, fast.
With so many choices for weed killers on the market, it can be difficult to choose the right one for your needs. That’s where the Good Housekeeping Institute comes in. Every year the Health, Beauty, and Environmental Sciences and Cleaning Products Labs evaluate hundreds of beauty and cleaning formulas for efficacy and completeness of label directions, safety warnings based on ingredients, and how easy each product is to use.
We rounded up well-known weed killers and those that are highly rated and reviewed. We then teamed up with sustainability expert, Dr. Michael Brown, Ph.D., of Brown and Wilmanns Environmental, to review the ingredients in each weed killer and eliminate chemicals that could potentially be harmful to humans or the environment, such as possible carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, neurotoxins, respiratory toxins or chemicals that may cause skin sensitization. (Some examples of chemicals we avoided are glyphosate and 3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid). To assess these potential hazards, safety data sheets were evaluated for each ingredient as well as performing additional research for anything that might not be listed on the safety data sheet. After narrowing the list down based on these criteria, below are our top picks for best weed killers:
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