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The larger point of the article is that companies are working overtime to change the formulas of everyday products, from shampoo to toilet cleaner, to naturally-derived chemical ingredients.


If you read on (it's quite a long article) you'll find out that Johns Manville fiberglass insulation is formaldehyde free... and that Owens Corning is not. We're excited to see that in many cases the petroleum-derived chemicals in products can be replaced with less toxic natural alternatives, but we would have liked to see a bit more questioning of our over-consumption of chemicals... do we really need liquid toilet bowl cleaner? Elbow grease, of course, is the greenest and most natural chemical of them all.