Basic H2 Turns Fifty!

Green.

Sure is a popular topic,  isn’t it?

Have you noticed that  “everyone”  is profiting, touting or advocating their almighty greenness?

I hope I don’t sound pompous.

I  am glad that the wave is catching on.

I just think there’s a LOT of misguided greenness going on.

In my opinion, earth day is the time to see how your doing regarding that green thing.  It’s a chance to reflect greenly!

Our feverish planet badly needs a cure. Climate Change is caused by lots of things, and it will take a lot of people to fix it.  There’s a role for big thinkers, power players, those with deep pockets —-and the rest of us.”

Time Magazine’s 2007 global warming issue.

What category are you?

I feel like I am part of the “rest of us” category.  I follow my basic reduce-reuse-recycle etiquette.  I make conscientious choices all the time. I use cloth rags and wash them instead of using paper towels, I use cloth napkins every single day, I have an almost virtual office.  Always striving for paperless options.  I reduced my file cabinets by 50%!  When I can I walk instead of drive.  I reuse my paper grocery bags.  I wash full loads of laundry in cold water. I turn off my lights.  I do many of the things that are being touted in all the press right now as the things to do this month, our Earth Day Month.  I do these things everyday and have done them for many years.  Each year I add new green goals to my list. I believe strongly in these choices.

How about you?

I sell a product designed by a man who I believe was a big thinker.

Dr. Forest C. Shaklee was a pioneer.    He said “one household at a time – we can make a difference!” He created the green power I use in my home today to clean.

He  speaks to my  sense of personal and earthly sensibility.  He also wanted to change the planet

Discovering an alternative cleaning product that actually worked for me was like discovering a non-toxic gold mine!!

Basic H2  is the most remarkable green cleaning product ever.

It is a highly concentrated, economical non-toxic, all plant based, extremely effective,  all purpose – 1001 use cleaning product.

How’s that for a testimony!

He created Basic H2 BEFORE before the word biodegradable was even in the dictionary!

He did this in 1960, for gosh sakes!

Why would he do such a thing?

Why in the era of spam, frozen dinners and velveeta cheese was he looking to the earth and nature? I believe he did it  because he had vision,  he predicted the pending issues and I mostly I believe he created Basic H2 because he cared.

In recent years the original already perfect formula was reformulated.

I thought why mess with something so great?

Yet Dr. Shaklee said, “Science never ever stands still”.

The new formulation is even better! Better then it already was !!!

Can you imagine?

Here is a little more about what this company believes:

Safe Clean
We believe home should be the safest place in the whole world.

Powerful Clean
We believe you shouldn’t have to sacrifice powerful convictions for powerful cleaners and vice versa.

Green Clean
We believe cleaning house shouldn’t involve dirtying the earth.

Smart Clean
We believe in saving you money, while we go about saving the earth.

So how about if we get that “green” clean feeling together ?



Never Clean Soap Scum Again!

In the days of yore when I used chemical bathroom cleaners, typical soaps and shampoo’s from the grocery store, I constantly battled with ring around the bathtub, slimy tile walls and an absolutely discusting shower curtain.

How about you ?

While I felt it was a never ending battle, I also struggled with how ill I felt after I cleaned because of noxious fumes from the typical cleaning products I was using, and how positively itchy I felt after using petroleum derived skin care.

I seriously itched a good portion of my life.

Being able to clean green of course altered the chemical portion of that completely.

Three non-toxic, biodegradable products

A germicide

An all purpose cleaning product

and a scouring paste.

The most remarkable detail of using the above powerful green trio is that I could spray, scour, sanitize and mix all of these things together, without fear of a chemical melt down.

We all know that combining bleach and ammonia and other regular cleaning products is very very dangerous.

Mixing bleach and ammonia releases a gas so deadly it was once used as a chemical warfare agent. It can overwhelm a victim in less than a minute.

Yikes!!

After I was introduced to green cleaning products I was then introduced to a non-soap bar,for everyday bathing.

A positively delicious oatmeal, vitamin e, wheat germ oil product that was such a shift from the squeaky clean Ivory soap I grew up with, or the Irish spring soap my husband seemed to enjoy ( gosh I hated the smell of that stuff)

I could hardly believe the difference this product made in my life.

My new non-soap bar was lovely smelling, ph balanced, and non-stripping to the skin. It actually protects the skins acid mantle versus destroying it.  I had horrific dry skin from using every day skin care products that were harsh, not ph balanced and derived from tallow ( animal fat ) and lye (the same thing that oven cleaners are made up of ).

I have introduced hundreds of people to this non-soap bar and they love it as much as I.

Here’s the deal

Soap products make soap scum – no other way to say it, soap leaves a horrific trail.

Use soap products you will have soap scum.

Use non-soap products – bar, body wash, moisturizers, shampoo’s and conditioners derived from plants and guess what?

No more soap scum. Not to mention no more dry skin.

No soap scum and you virtually have a self cleaning bathtub.

I have not had a bathtub ring since 1993!

Come over anytime and look in my bathtu

It’s beeee-aaa-uuu-tiful.

With regard to the discusting plastic liners for your shower?  Forget those.

I stopped using them ions ago.

I buy an all fabric cotton shower curtain – actually I buy 2 and wash one with the towels!

No more plastic touching my body, not more outgassing and no more mold.


vintage claw tub and mirror flickr image credit

How do you celebrate Earth Day?
If you’re not cleaning green – what’s stopping you?

Scour That Toilet Naturally

I remember once I was cleaning the toilet using a typical scouring powder.

Somehow I got some in my nose and about lost my mind with how much it burned.

I thought to myself how much damage did I just do to myself?

When I decided to go green, one of the things that really frustrated me was the fact that the natural methods;  the lemon, vinegar, baking soda approach required quite a bit of muscle power to get things clean.

I felt I had to suffer to be green.

Not to mention my house smelled a lot like a salad!

I thought,  gosh there has to be a more efficient less salad smelling way to clean green.

Got something really tough to scour off ??

Try a cleaning 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!

Every single person I know who I have shared this product with is equally astounded by it.  You need a very small amount to get the job done.  Pick your very toughest stain and let this green alternative scouring paste take it on!!


blueberry brilliance flickr image credit

How do you celebrate Earth Day?
If you’re not cleaning green – what’s stopping you?