February 11, 2012

E-Cloth® vs. Toxic Cleaners

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by Jennifer Gray, Pharmacist | Cleaning and sanitizing our living space has become a multi-million dollar industry. The United States market for household cleaning products reached an estimated $7.3 billion in 2007 according to a February 2008 study by Packaged Facts, and the national yearly per capita use of household cleaning chemicals for 2006 came in at 25 gallons. It is clear that consumers want clean homes and have been convinced they have to buy many different products for specific … [Read more...]

Slip into Something Sustainable!

It takes about 1/3 of a pound of pesticide to produce a standard T-shirt, so buying organic cotton clothing can keep a measurable amount of toxins out of the soil and off your skin. What makes that pesticide dose even more disturbing? Most of the cotton plant—minus what gets spun into cloth—ends up in our food supply one way or another. Processed foods, from cookies to tuna fish, often contain cottonseed oil. Beef and dairy cows get fed cotton straw, cottonseed meal, and the waste from … [Read more...]

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