In addition to the safety benefit, green cleaning costs less per use and creates a lot less cleaning cabinet clutter. I have learned that a few products can clean it all.
Education
Certifications, ingredients, labeling lingo? What a quagmire! Transform yourself into an informed, discerning consumer to spend wisely and cruise through the marketing melee with a savvy eye.
Buying fair trade is about voting with our dollar. If we purchase fairly produced products, we are voting for fair production practices.
If you’ve recently stood in the bottled water aisle with words such as purified, distilled, spring, and so on – and that’s not even covering hard & soft water – you know water is not simple.
I interviewed Gero Leson about his book, Honor Thy Label, which tells the story of how Dr. Bronner’s global supply chain acts out the message on the bottle.
Soap is magic. With all that we understand about germ theory and antibiotics and sanitizing, we can’t do better than what the Babylonians (likely) came up with 5000 years ago.
Whether you are new to green cleaning or deeply immersed, here’s what essentials to keep stocked in your green cleaning arsenal to clean your house and all its many surfaces and scenarios.
