Here are a few lovely substances one might find in an oven cleaner:

Naphthalene
A white crystalline compound derived from coal tar or petroleum and used in manufacturing dyes, moth repellents, and explosives and as a solvent. Also called tar camphor

Petroleum Distillates
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.

Butylcelosolve
Any of four flammable alcohols derived from butanes and used in organic synthesis and as solvents.

Carcinogens -
Substances that increase the risk of neoplasms in humans or animals. Both genotoxic chemicals, which affect DNA directly, and nongenotoxic chemicals, which induce neoplasms by other mechanism, are included.

Ammonia -
A colorless, pungent gas extensively used to manufacture fertilizers and a wide variety of nitrogen-containing organic and inorganic chemicals.

Chlorine -
A highly irritating, greenish-yellow gaseous halogen, capable of combining with nearly all other elements, produced principally by electrolysis of sodium chloride and used widely to purify water, as a disinfectant and bleaching agent, and in the manufacture of many important compounds including chloroform and carbon tetrachloride.

Hydrochloric Acid -
A clear, colorless, fuming, poisonous, highly acidic aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride, HCl, used as a chemical intermediate and in petroleum production, ore reduction, food processing, pickling, and metal cleaning. It is found in the stomach in dilute form.

Organochlorine -
Any of various hydrocarbon pesticides, such as DDT, that contain chlorine.

the above definitions sourced from what’s under YOUR Sink?

What if you could clean off burnt on food in your oven without losing nose hairs in the process?

Allow me to share a green clean nugget, a moment of greenness – just you, me and that darn oven.

Consider trying a green clean scouring paste that smells a little like something between bubble gum and cherry Kool-Aid.

Gentle in that it won’t scratch, but mighty in that it works really well !!

It’s NON-TOXIC and bio-degradable too!

Certainly not something one thinks of as an oven cleaner.

How many folks do you know who believe it needs to be really nasty chemical to get the job done?

Try again.  Pick your very toughest stain or oven and let this alternative scouring paste and a little elbow grease take it on!!

circa 1967self-cleaning flickr image

P.S. there is always a reader who has this oven.  love it

It’s the last day of Earth Month.  Earth day is an over done, green washed “whatever”  expression that has lost it’s meaning to perfect looking designer grocery bags, and look good efforts to plant a tree.  I realize I am being very negative.  But many of us who advocate green concerns find this month to be a lot of green noise. Changes that could happen to move things forward via climate change aren’t happening fast enough. For me, my concerns are climate change and our health.

Perhaps I shouldn’t complain, I personally don’t take on climate change like some,  yet I point in admiration to those that do, and I advocate when and where I can.

The way I earn my living is by selling supplements.   The premise of taking supplements is to build your well being, protect and enhance it – it’s in the mind set of prevention.  Prevent illness and you won’t get trapped in the machinery of modern medicine.  I believe this, it’s one thing I feel I might have control over.   I example this as best as I can.  I  eat well – that means eating for health – not eating for taste. I cook from scratch, and gosh darn it,  I take my vitamins.  I champion my clients to do the same. I hope this is somehow doing my part.   I know I help people get well, get off of medications, restore their health.   Is that enough?

In reading about the future of climate change, inevitable atrocities are expected,  especially to our water supply.  This precious commodity needs to be protected.    I heard a statistic that said that our municipalities only treat 3% of the water supply for drinking water,   the other 97% goes to things like washing our cars.   What??   That statistic floored me.  What are we actually doing with our water ?? Do we even know?  Look at the manufacturing of a fast food hamburger and how much water that takes.   We don’t get that water back.  How about the manufacturing of bottled water.  Excuse me, but that’s simply criminal.  Why are we still allowing the manufacturing of bottle water?   Why?

Many of the top health issues are diet related.  The statistics just around the issue of obesity are staggering.  I know this perhaps sounds naive, but as long as 75% of what is purchased at our grocery stores – this so called produced/manufactured food — is still available for folks to consume, become addicted to, and continue to build poor health and illness …nothing will change.

So….couldn’t we just stop making the stuff ?? Yeah – like shut the industry down.   Do people really need ketchup, sugar laden genetically modified corn cereal and diet coke??  If aspartame, high fructose syrup and altered grain are ALL bad for us, why are we still producing it??  I don’t get it.   Why do we manufacture this stuff??  Let’s abolish fast food.   Make it illegal. Can you even imagine it?  If we are such a powerful smart industrious nation, couldn’t we recreate the family meal, implement scratch cooking, lose the BPA lined cans and get back to eating from the land?  A land not sprayed with round up and controlled by some large mega company??  What if the aisles in the grocery stores were reverse and 75% was “live” clean, healthy, health building food??  Let’s fund and champion the organic farmer, real people, hard working people who care. They want to alter the way we are currently eat.  Let the organic farmer take that on!!  What about mandating school lunch programs that serve vegetables.  Period.  Like that’s the only choice.  None of this chicken tenders crap.  What if hospitals and nursing homes served patients vegetable soup, verses plastic peel lid apple juices and jello.   Jello?  Since when does jello do the body good?

With regard to climate change it is predicted that we can look forward to extreme temperatures, super infectious diseases spread by insects who thrive on warmer temperatures, poor air quality and more. This is frightening!

Our bodies human needs to be in  a much stronger place to combat these pending concerns

How we doing on that ?? Is your immunity at it’s very best?   I know I feel as I get older, that I have to work harder to continually build and protect my immune system.   I work with moms and infants who are so immune challenged so early, how are these kids going to be prepared for the fall of our earth’s natural resources? When they can’t even manage a common ear ache without a round of antibiotic.

Obviously my ideas lack some layer of reality in our current model.   I don’t know what leader of what nation would shake things up and make decisions that are not based on profit, greed and harm and actually get to the business of quality living.  Life.  Isn’t that what we are here for ??  Can’t it be a life of wellness for all and save the planet too?

Am I too kumbaya in my thinking??

Or is there potential somehow?

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

The effort asks computers to take this on for one week.  It’s a super program to observe commute habits and to consider some of these shifts as your personal norm. Try it on!

The director of the ISU Sustainability program Michael McCurdy enthusiastically champions this campaign, he commutes via bicycle to his job, as program director for the local public radio station WGLT

Michael just completed a series of radio/blog interviews to illustrate several who are alternatively commuting year round.   I was the project photographer.

The actual Good To Go challenge is May 12-18,  a friendly competition between individuals, teams and workplaces.  Participants track/report their efforts and are eligible for prizes. The simple goal is to do anything but drive alone.

The main reasons to consider alternative transportation is that it’s really good for you, great for the planet and it saves you money! It also connects you with others in the community!!

More projects by Photographer Karen Hanrahan

Commentary from any of the woman in green moms carnival are always resourceful, thoughtfully written and enthusiastic…please enjoy: 

Tiffany of Nature Moms could not just single out one title, I was fascinated by her topics of interests, I bet you will be too.

Micaela of MIndful Momma, Abbie Of Farmers Daughter, and Diane of Big Green Purse ALL shared reviews of our fellow green mom and author Deanna Duke’s new book Non-Toxic Avenger.   This book shares a personal journey of relieving one’s own personal toxin burden. The reviews are all mighty positive.  I know I too enjoyed this book very much!

Amber of Strocel.com shared five compelling green book titles and how they inspired her. She shared how books convince her that she too can make a difference.

Lori of Groovy Green Livin shares ten green books just for kids, as a seasoned mom, I had to say her suggestions made me smile with memories long gone now of reading at the library.

Beth of A Plastic Free Life’s book review is about someone who takes a well researched journalistic perspective about the topic of plastic, be sure to consider Beth’s very own call to action book Plastic Free  

Anna Of Green Talk reviews a book about greening your teen to change our world, simply put our teens are our next leaders, they will take us into the future of green!

Alline of Ecovillage Musings, and someone who hasn’t joined in on the carnival in awhile ( good to have you back Alline!!)  is a devoted book pusher, her love of books is about sharing them  Books were part of her decisions to live in an intentional community, click on to investigate her impressive list of favorites

Harriet Of Climate Mama focuses her title selections on books about Climate Change especially those that can start conversations with kids about that topic.   Harriet also pointed to all the impressive authors we have on our Green Moms Carnival.

Betsy Of Eco-Novice shares five of her favorite and rather intensive green guides, with a lovely and gently reminder how overwhelming and stressful it can be.  A bit like read with caution and only if you are really ready to know.  I appreciated that.

This past week I shared about the author Sandra Steingarber at my blog Best Of Mother Earth and how she inspires me. She is highly regarded for her voice on many environmental issues, hydro-fracking beng one.

Sandra Steingraber,  is an author known as  ”the new rachel carson” says Sierra Magazine.  

Her most recent book is titled:  Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children In An Age Of Environmental Crisis

I first heard of and experienced Sandra at a local screening of her documentary Living Downstream in 2010.

I am sharing her here and loving her again because her continued pioneering and forward path inspires me. This is a one woman make a difference machine!

Sandra is a scholar in residence at Ithaca College, a biology major from IWU, she obtained her Masters in English from ISU, and a doctorate in Biology from U of M, she is an author of three books, each having a focus on cancer in relationship to the environment. She herself is a bladder cancer survivor.  With adopted parents and cancer in her family she felt the cancer wasn’t in her DNA but from the world around her.  She set out to prove it.

Sandra’s voice is soothing, methodical and strident.  Her message strong and determined, she continues to break the silence around the country urging parents to demand government policies that ensure the healthy development of children and the eco-systems on which all of our lives are dependent on.

One roomful of listeners at a time she will speak, large or small, in times of mothering she’d pull out a jar of freshly expressed breast milk  ”This is the most chemically contaminated food on the planet,” she says. “It has more dioxin, more PCBs, more DDT and fat-soluble pesticides than any other food. It is also absolutely unsubstitutable.” 

Oh my god, I nursed my children!  I was devoted to the idea that breast milk was the best thing for them. I didn’t know!  Most mom’s don’t.

She speaks to the harms of Fracking.  At a hearing recently she used a different maternal and earthy prop and passed around a local loaf of artisan bread.  Bread from her baker.  She said, the bread – wholesome and pure – hand made, is mostly water, This bread is at risk – fracking leases surround the acreage that this natural organic  bread comes from.

Voices like Sandra’s help more people understand serious environmental concerns.

Having Faith:  An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood 

Living Downstream – the book

Living Downstream – the documentary

Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children In An Age Of Environmental Crisis 

My work is prevention, and my belief is to take a proactive approach. I am not delusional in thinking that taking vitamins and cleaning green will emphatically protect me from cancer, but I do believe in giving my body the tools to give it fighting chance. Improving immune function can not harm me.  Cleaning green certainly is more pleasant than something chemically.  Reducing exposure to harmful foods is another choice I can make, supporting my local farmers another pro-choice regarding my personal journey on this planet. I speak to these things and sell products that make a difference on this planet and for our well being because this speaks to who I am.

Read Sandra’s books, learn from them and share this message.

Join all of us from Green Moms Carnival Monday February 13th as we collectively share Green Authors And Books We Love

go here to read the entire collective on this important topic.

Climate Change is a complex topic.  It’s bigger than all of us and in the end it’s hard to know if our efforts are actually making a difference.   The strong opposing commentary on Climate Change is confusing.  What is your opinion on the matter?  I personally can’t begin to claim expertise.  My resolutions are to be an advocate and to continue to example choice.

I know that’s not very specific.

If and when I have a chance to point in the direction of those who are making strides in climate change issues I want to be sure to be a resource.   As I continue to learn and develop my own ideas on the topic I want to example a shifting behavior that I hope helps someone see that they too have the option to make choices that can contribute to being more proactive.

Its my strong belief that small shifts do make a difference.  When changes are made collectively they have a stronger voice.

It’s also my belief that making any effort is better than doing nothing.

My biggest wish is for pause, reflection, and conscientiously slowing it down. I’d love to see less purchasing, more making it from scratch and shopping local.

Where I example this best is cooking from scratch and shouting it out about the local farmers and business I I support through my purchases.  A lifestyle of less is more.   In the end this produces less waste and we are healthier!

Pause and choice are what I am championing.

Isn’t this the common sensical approach to it all.

I discovered Deanna and her wacky green ideas in my early blogging days, my first impression of her was that she was nuts. At that time she was campaigning about something called a Diva Cup,  peeing in her garden and writing about a friendship she had with an offgrid dude named Greenpa at that time I had no idea what off grid even was.

Something about her enthusiasm, her sincerity and yes her wacky way of looking at things kept me coming back to her writings.  Along the way her husband was diagnosed with cancer and holy smokes I was stunned.  I had never experienced something so personal on a blog before. Since, we have become wonderfully acquainted via our work together in Green Moms Carnival.

I find Deanna to be smart, very detail oriented, insanely curious, tremendously thoughtful and seriously gosh darn funny.  She continuously cracks me up!

I loved this book.  I’d especially recommend it to a family or individual who REALLY wants to know about the toxins around them and how to make shifts towards a less toxic personal environment.

What separates her book from others is how she took us into on this very ambitious project and tucked all of us into her everyday life. This was not a go to spa, get it all together detox ahhhhhhhhh experience. This was an in the trenches everything exploration in the middle of life. Work, mom, wife, cancer, asbergers, family, holidays , red velvet birthday cake.   The journey was real.   It was like spending a few months as a fly on the wall inside the Duke household and better yet being included in all the details, concerns, and speculation in Deanna’s mind as she took this thing on.

I can thank Deanna for my shift to the use of a Diva Cup, applaud her reinforcing my decision to never ever use teflon pans, marvel at the toxins I didn’t know about, like oh my gosh, the coating on dental floss??  who knew! , and be totally inspired to buy of all things more house plants!

( you’ll just have to read the book to find out why) 

This book is an easy read despite some of the alarming and complex details and it’s loaded with references and resources.

Nice work Deanna!!

Many of the suggestions for alternative products she mentions can also be found through me.   Ask me about green cleaning and anti-aging plant based skin care.

I find Terra’s writing so very lovely and quotable.  I love her message of shifting our relationship with food – reminding us that there is a 5 billion dollar advertising industry pursuadeing us we don’t have time to cook.   She said money is like manure – spread it around and I thought oh my gosh how true!! Many at this time of year are seeking ways to make donations.  A donation to the Land Connection is local, meaningful and helps foster a much needed forward thinking philosophy.

Times Of Abundance

Terra Brockman on food and feasting

Dec 09, 2011 by Amy Frykholm  in The Christian Century

Terra Brockman is an advo­cate for—and close observer of—sustainable agriculture. She founded an organization called The Land Connection that works to preserve farmland, train new farmers and connect people with local food. She lives in central Illinois and is the author of The Seasons on Henry’s Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm.

What is life like at the farm after the harvest is over? 

I call it the wabi-sabi time of year. Wabi-sabi is the Buddhist concept that everything changes; impermanence is itself a thing of beauty. My brother Henry says that this wabi-sabi season is all about “the beauty of sadness, and the sadness of beauty.” It is sad in one way to see the leaves fall, the basil blacken, and the tomato and other annual plants turn to mush. But all those dead plants break down and become food for fungi and bacteria and enhance next year’s crops.

On an aesthetic level, I love the stark beauty of winter. Everything is stripped away. You get down to the basic structure of things. You get to see in a new way.

What can farming teach us about feasting?

On the farm, there are natural feast times, times of abundance. When you have abundance, you tend to be really profligate with sharing. When the winter squashes come in, for example, any one that has a little softness in it needs to be shared and shared quickly.

My mom’s tradition is southern Italian Catholic. My grandma said they used to eat a crust of bread and half an onion—that was their everyday food. Christmas Eve is very spartan in this tradition—dry spaghetti with salt cod. No olive oil even.

Christmas Day includes making ravioli together. We spend hours around a table making these raviolis with two fillings, one with ground beef from my dad’s cattle, and one of ricotta and winter greens. It is a feast of shared labor. This isn’t a feast where things just appear on the table. In American culture, we often have the idea of the feast appearing magically from the kitchen without labor. We work to produce our feast, but the work is fun and every ravioli is different, oddly shaped, imperfect. They don’t look like ravioli from the freezer aisle. The participatory aspect is the most important part of the feast.

How is feasting balanced with times of less abundance?

In February and March, the months before we get the first wild and perennial greens, the root cellar and freezer are emptying out. We are not suffering, we are not hungry, but we are making do with what we have. With the apparent abundance in the grocery store all the time, many people have lost the art of making do and have lost a sense of the ebb and flow of the natural world.

Food is too often seen as an inanimate commodity, not something deeply connected to the earth. In fact, modern industrial agriculture has created a disconnect not only between people and the seasons, but between people’s food and their values of caring for others and stewarding the earth. The complicated and opaque food chain that goes through processors, manufacturers, packagers, shippers, advertisers and retailers is damaging to people and to the earth.

One way forward is to reboot our relationship with food—in times of abundance and times of scarcity—making it more local, more personal, more connected and meaningful.

You talk about the fun of making ravioli—but many people feel exhausted by the holiday season. 

We’ve been persuaded by a $5 billion advertising industry that “we are too busy,” or “this is so hard you can’t make it by yourself.” There are billions of dollars of propaganda actively discouraging people from doing simple, fun things and connecting with friends. I think part of my work is trying to open people up to life’s simple pleasures.

Holiday exhaustion—spiritual and physical—comes, I think, from not getting together to enjoy and recharge. Mak­ing food together is energizing.

People have been misinformed to think that you need four hours to cook a meal. The quickest stir-fry is faster than the fastest fast food.

I have taken to eating a lot of food on toast lately—greens or mushrooms or radishes. It takes less than five minutes to put bread in the toaster oven and slice the radishes or stir-fry the greens as the bread is toasting. It’s simple, delicious and satisfying.

Perhaps we are also uneasy with “imperfect” food?

I think that’s true. We’ve been persuaded by advertising that an apple must be bright red and shiny. That view actually sets us up for a very disappointing taste experience—not to mention that apples top the list of the most pesticide-laden produce.

I learned about the importance of imperfection when I lived in Japan. In the Japanese tea ceremony, you have to use imperfect clay bowls because the aging, cracked, asymmetrical bowls force you to see beyond the surface to the spark of light and beauty within. The spark points to perfection within imperfection.

Food is not about some perfect size or color or presentation. It’s about joining us to the earth, our fellow creatures, family, guests and ultimately God. It’s about life here and now, about seeing the spark of light and beauty in our world and our lives, even with all their imperfection and unpredictability.

Can you say more about imperfection and feasting on the farm?

Every time we harvest vegetables or fruits on my brother Henry’s or sister Teresa’s farms, there are many things that aren’t quite good enough to sell. Since they are “for us”—for the family and apprentices—we call them the “for-us-es”—the imperfect things, too ripe, too misshapen, too big, too small. Even though we can’t sell these, they are often the most delicious. The tomatoes that are just on the edge of rotting, the pear with a bad spot. The imperfection is the perfection.

I just cooked up a bunch of “for us” squash. They had soft spots, but I carved them out and the imperfect squash came out perfectly delicious. Bug holes in the greens don’t matter either, once you’ve cooked them. And a worm at the tip of an ear of sweet corn proves that there were no poisonous chemicals used on it.

My dad likes to tell the story of a friend who visited him in the watermelon patch. The friend said, enviously, “You probably get all the best watermelons.” My dad laughed, “No, we never get the best ones.” He showed him all the cracked, broken, slightly rotten watermelons that were in the “for us” pile and said, “These are the ones we eat.”

What’s your message to those who don’t live so close to the land? 

Start with just one item—say, eggs. It’s easy these days to go to Local­Harvest or other websites and type in “local eggs” and find a local farmer who raises them in a good way. You’ll find that those eggs will be more delicious and more meaningful. If you get just a few items from a local farmer, or even a few herbs from your windowsill, you create a personal connection to food and to the people and place it came from. The bottom line is that good food is food that connects you to the earth and to others—it is a very real communion.

And at this giving time of year, please remember that money is like manure – it does the most good when you spread it around – and The Land Connection can make sure your money does a world of good.   Thank you!

Donations Critical to the Success of this first ever Public/Private Partnership for HHW in McLean County

Dear Friend of the EAC:

It’s been four long years since McLean County saw its last Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Event. Since the fall of 2007 area residents have patiently waited for a safe way to dispose of their old herbicides, fertilizers, oil-based paints, chemicals, and other hazardous materials. We are fortunate that many in our community are aware of the risks of improper disposal of HHW items. The threat of polluting our drinking water supply is real—conventional landfills are not designed to contain hazardous wastes.

Unfortunately the budget crisis at the state level has taken its toll. No Illinois EPA funded HHW collection events are being scheduled. The state’s Solid Waste Fund was “swept” by the General Assembly for other purposes. I regularly check in with the IEPA, hoping for some indication that funding for HHW collection events will resume, but my inquiries always result in disappointment.

It’s high time we take matters into our own hands – so that’s exactly what we are doing. The Ecology Action Center, with a growing list of community partners, is planning for a HHW Collection event for September 2012 for McLean County residents. This first-ever public and private partnership for HHW has an ambitious goal of raising $125,000 to cover the necessary expenses of a one-day HHW event.

To make this event happen, we need your help. We are asking our members, friends, and supporters to consider making a year-end tax deductible contribution to the EAC’s HHW Fund. No contribution is too small or too large. For example, if each of the 2000 households that participated in the 2007 HHW event contributed as little as $10, we would be $20,000 closer to reaching our goal!

Please contribute to the HHW Fund. You may make an online contribution using your credit card or PayPal account at www.ecologyactioncenter.org.

Or you may make donation checks out to “Ecology Action Center” and mail to:

Ecology Action Center 

Attn: HHW Fund 

202 W College Ave 

Normal, IL 6171 

All contributions are tax deductible. All donors will receive an acknowledgment for tax purposes.

Businesses or organizations interested in sponsorship opportunities should contact me at (309) 454-3169 or mbrown@ecologyactioncenter.org.

Thank you for supporting safe disposal of hazardous wastes in McLean County,

Michael Brown

Executive Director

Here are just a few wellness product suggestions that might be useful to you during the holidays…

because sometimes, along with the holidays, comes …

a little holiday stress, a little holiday eating, a little holiday depression, a few children in the festivities, a few long days and long nights, perhaps a little stack of holiday baking dishes, and maybe just maybe there might be a need to spruce up your appearance??

Stress!!!

Try our product that relieves stress This safe and effective herbal formula promotes a tranquil state of mind without drowsiness. For anyone who is under stress and would like to feel calmer and more relaxed and yet, more alert please consider this product. May be used daily. Contains amino acids L-Theanine, L-Tyrosine as well as Beta Sitosterol and Ashwagandha which blunt the stress hormone cortisol, a hormone that over time can damage vital organs.

B-Complex - Essential for your nerves, brain and a pleasant disposition (something that might be especially useful this time of year!). Helps prevent cravings for sweets…helps metabolize them when you eat them anyway ( ha!) and burns them into energy.

Holiday Eating!!

We all over eat during the holidays! Make it easier on the gut, by taking something to assist digestion. Nutrients are better absorbed from your foods when digestion is working at it’s best.Consider Digestive Enzymes to help alleviate symptoms such as gas, bloating and feelings of fullness.

Colds and Viruses!!!

Natural Interferon is excellent for people with allergies and weaker immunity or high stress. It supports and stimulates the immune system, by increasing the activity of macrophages (white blood cells) and inducing natural interferon production. This product optimizes immune response against environmental irritants and airborne substances.

Vitamin C Most of us need extra Vitamin C in the wintertime, as it is water, lost to air, heat and light and really important for the immune system. Ours provides 500 mg released slowly over a 5-hour period.

Holiday Blues!!!

St John’s Wart— Clinical tests show that St. John’s Wort provides dietary support for uplifted spirits and a sense of well being due to the plant’s positive effect on a number of mood-enhancing neurotransmitters in the brain. Users report improved mood, alertness, productivity and energy without the side effects of pharmaceutical antidepressants.

Children!!!

Children’s Chewable- we know that our children are not getting all the nutrients they need. Especially during the holidays. Give them this daily nutritional insurance provided by our chewable multi-vitamin. The kids just love them! It’s simple and valuable. Our children’s multi-vitamin is the most complete on the market

Late nights … Long days…

Soy Protein– Great energy booster! This complete form of soy protein comes with less than 1 gram of carbohydrate. All this delivered from the same high quality source of soy while using the same water-washed manufacturing process. Its extraordinary versatility allows you to enjoy the health benefits of soy in a number of different ways: mix it in drinks, and now you can cook and bake with it.

and Dishes…lots and lots of dirty dishes!!!

Our Company is known for the most complete bio-degradable laundry and cleaning product line on the planet! Following the philosophy of the founder of the company and that science move forward the company completely revamped, upgraded and improved the entire collection!

A certain female daytime celebrity host touts this product as one of her absolute favorites

Here are a few products that can help with those dishes :

For the Dishwasher - recommended by many environmental groups and magazines. This patented product continues to be one of the ONLY automatic dish washing formulas containing NO phosphates and NO chlorine…clean clincher: one box of our “green and mighty” non-chemical, extremely concentrated powder equals 2 ½ boxes of Cascade!!

For dishes done by hand - Ours is fabulous non-toxic, non-polluting dishwashing liquid & a powerful grease cutter, yet so gentle, it can be used for washing hands & as a bubble bath. Literally, just a few drops provides ooodles of sudsy natural, sustainably sourced, plant – based effective cleaner for dishes. Has a delicious sortof a citrusy scent. I especially love what they have done with this product!! 70% more effective on grease than Method and Seventh Generation.

Let’s not forget parties !! Lots of gala events and entertaining!!

Look Great for the Holidays with…

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