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Mr. Klein Your Underwear

We don't separate our underwear from the rest of our laundry. We throw it in with like colors, turn the washing machine on and call it a day (well, until we have to take it out). If we did wash our...

What's Inside Palmolive Ultra: Ingredients Decoded

To most non-scientists, the ingredients listed on the back of non-natural cleaning products or personal products are completely foreign. Wired Magazine's series "What's Inside" deconstructs the ingred...

Goodbye Detergent! New Clean Kitchen Set and Scraper

It's no secret we're fans of Goodbye Detergent!, the brand of cleaning products designed to reduce the need for chemical cleaning agents. Soon the line will expand to include a Kitchen Scraper, which ...

Gorenje WA60125: A New Eco-Friendly Washing Machine

Gorenje, makers of the neat Tiki water heater, have debuted their newest washing machine, the WA60125. Like their condenser dryer, this appliance from Gorenje also fits the eco- friendly bill. With ...

5 Simple, Safe & Surprising Metal Cleaners

Inspired by the folks who make their own bathroom and kitchen cleaners, we remembered this list of simple and safe homemade metal cleaners in Real Simple Cleaning, and pulled it off the shelf this mor...

Special Uses for Bar Keeper's Friend

We use Bar Keeper's Friend on the stainless steel surfaces in our home for cleaning and rubbing out scratches. When we last used it, we noticed on the can's label that it's also recommended for tile...

How to Make Your Own Kitchen Cleaners
Home Hacks

Making your own cleaning products for the kitchen is both economical and good for your health. When you're using baking soda, vinegar, and water, you can feel pretty confident that the cleaning you'...

Humor Me, Then Clean: Beauty Engineered forEver

Here's another line of eco cleaners to add to our ever-growing green cleaning products arsenal. Hailing from New Zealand, B_E_E products ("Beauty Engineered forEver") use essential oils and natural...

LA Go Green Expo: 10 Great Finds

Flexible water bottles, hand soap derived from biofuel, and a machine that extracts water from air were among the innovations shown at Go Green Expo in Los Angeles this weekend. After scouring the s...

Disinfect Naturally: Seventh Generation's Surface Cleaner

When it comes to cleaning products, we usually stick to simple, non-toxic solutions like baking soda and vinegar and avoid harsh chemicals and synthetics. However, we do admit to wanting a little ex...

In Praise of the Kitchen Scrub Brush

I grew up using sponges in the kitchen. I used sponges for everything: wiping countertops, washing dishes, cleaning the floor. I only started to use a scrub brush very recently, and now I know I can n...

Product Review: Twist Loofah Sponge
In The Test Lab

Name: Twist Loofah Sponge Price: $4.28 or less. Rating: Recommend* We've posted about Twist's Loofah Sponges before but when I saw them in my local grocery coop, I decided to try them out. The pack...

Wooden Drying Rack

We always find ourselves doing lots of extra laundry during the holiday season- all those parties create a lot of dirty tablecloths and napkins. We try to minimize our dryer use, both because of th...

Wash Up In Style: Full Circle Home's Dishwashing Tools

Thanksgiving may be the biggest cooking day of the year, but it (and today, Friday!) is the biggest washing up day of the year too! Between the roasting and the serving you've probably dirtied every...

Goodbye Detergent! Now Available in the US

Earlier this year we told you about these naturally abrasive scrubber and pads made of recycled corn cobs, peach pits, & walnut shells. Unfortunately they were only available in the UK, but now thes...

Method's Shiny Suds Spoof Commercial

Last week Method launched a campaign in support of the Household Product Labeling Act which, if passed in Congress, would require cleaning products to bear labels with “complete and accurate” li...

Hot or Not? I'm Not a Paper Towel Dish Towel at Target

Remember the I'm Not a Plastic Bag bag from Anya Hindmarch? Well, what do you think about this little interpretation from Target? We got a chuckle when we came across it while looking through a frie...

1,001 Uses for White Distilled Vinegar

We love white distilled vinegar. We don't love the way it smells. But we love it. It's pretty cheap, it's non-toxic, environmentally-friendly, and you can use it to do (literally) like a thousand thin...

Kitchen Sponges: 5 Tips for Greener Cleaning

We were discussing kitchen sponges with some friends recently (riveting party topic!) and were surprised to hear that one of them discards and replaces her sponge every week. Certainly this isn't such...

Paper Towel Alternative: The Skoy Cloth

I'm happy to report that my household is almost completely paper towel-free! I keep a roll tucked in the back of a cupboard for those rare, really awful situations, a roll which (luckily) I haven't ...

The Electrolux UltraSilencer Green Canister Vacuum
In The Test Lab

Reviewers: Emily and Robert, Upper West Side, Manhattan Product: The UltraSilencer Green Canister Vacuum Designer: Electrolux Price: $299 Rating: Recommend* When Cambria suggested that my Manhatt...

Wall Mount Folding Drying Rack

We must be going through a wall mount phase. Earlier this week our friends at AT:Boston blogged about wall mount cabinets from CB2. Now this: a wall mount drying rack that folds down when not in u...

Green Ideas: Plastic Bag Dryer

Even if you're trying to use mostly reusable bags, chances are sandwich bags still come in handy- especially for snacks and traveling with the kids this summer. Is it gross to recycle them? We're pr...

New from ABC Home: Eco-Intelligence

This past June NYC-based ABC Home launched a new line of eco-friendly home products, equipment and accessories called Eco-Intelligence. Each product explains its energy and cost saving potential and...

The Xeros Waterless Washing Machine

Southern Californians are hopefully aware of the required water usage limits being placed, meaning every drop counts in an ever expanding market of demand. So any household cleaning device or applianc...

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