Archive for 'Cleaning Products'

Next time you’re shopping for laundry detergent, don’t be duped by cuddly talking bears or watercolor drawings of sunny, verdant valleys. There’s something dirty hiding in commercial laundry detergents, fabric softeners and dryer sheets.

Common grocery store brands are loaded with questionable chemicals like phosphates and phenols that leave toxic residues behind, which are then absorbed [...]

Let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat, I have not personally tested this paper-saving toilet seat that is designed to help spritz away dooty.  I realize that this device is certainly not for everyone.

The brand new Swash Ecoseat 250 is projected to save up to 75% of the toilet paper [...]

What I like about online shop, Let’s Go Green is the fact that you can garner a lot of green for your home with one quick visit.  You’ll find quality items for your kitchen, bath, office and garden — all reasonably priced.  Recycled paper goods, trash can liners that degrade and compost in 12-24 months, [...]

I have to admit I have a fixation with doing my ‘business,’ making this type of product very appealing to moi. A flushable doggie doo bag, perfecto.
These Flushadoo’s are made from a special water soluble material (I’ll find out more). They’re said to be strong and flexible yet odorless and non-toxic. The bags are [...]

Why put nasty, toxic chemical drain cleaners into your plumbing and septic systems when Drainbo Natural Drain Cleaner can get the job done. Drainbo enlists a seven strain bacteria formula and the natural process of biological decomposition to get rid of clogs.
This stuff even has a fresh lemon scent. Drainbo can be used for [...]

Okay, now that we’re using reusable bags to cart our goods from market and we don’t have those retail-provided plastic shopping bags to line our trash cans, what do we do? Rather than purchase non-biodegradable plastic liners that contain polyethylene and require non-renewable oil in its production — here are a few, more eco-minded [...]

In case you missed the broadcast on EarthDay 2007 (I know, every day should be earth day), Oprah’s Green 101 program is being repeated today. Our friends at EcoBags, Green Dimes, SIGG, Shaklee, Mrs Meyers, Method and many others are featured. Just a heads-up on some basic green tips brought to you [...]

Trying to jumpstart that ’special someone’s’ move toward a greener lifestyle? You might avoid getting them that tired and wasteful fruit basket, and snag them a green gift basket from greenlemonaide.com.
Greenlemonaide offers two baskets. Green Toolkit 1 contains some basic eco-friendly items like a reusable tote, tire gauge, a Smart Strip for suspending power [...]

Laundry day is the bain of many an existence. If you’re Diddy or Paloma Picasso you can afford to pop over to Rodeo Drive and buy some new threads every time you soil an outfit or after being copiously photographed by the paparazzi, but for we commoners, we’re just faced with another trip to [...]

Every spring and fall I go on a grime fighting tear in my kitchen and baths; here are a just a few fab finds that top this season’s green and clean list.

For a smart take on sponges, try TWIST. I love this biodegradable, double-sided loofah sponge, ($7). One side soaks [...]

If you’re sick of gulping chlorine, and lying red-eyed in a deck chair after swimming in your chlorine-treated swimming pool, there is an alternative. EcoSmarte pool cleaning systems offers an alternative to chlorine, and salt water pools. Their natural oxygen technology is 100% chlorine-free. The system manages and removes minerals without the use of salt [...]

Yes, we all want to keep our hybrids, bio-diesels and fuel-efficient rides sparklin’, but taking a hose to the driveway can cost at-home washers up to 100 gallons of water. On top of that, do-it-yourselfers are likely leaking the contaminated suds into neighborhood runoff drains. Yikes.
Keep things clean and green by switching to a waterless, [...]