These kits consist of 100% natural ingredients and cover the gamut of needs: for home, body, baby, and pets. We've given cleaning supplies as housewarming gifts before, but this green batch of goodness has everything all wrapped into one and makes for a great gift for yourself or someone else.
Eco-Me Cleaning Kits
Above, home starter kit ($26), including:
- 1 natural fiber storage bag
- 2 spray bottles for mixing spray cleaner and polish
- 1 jar for mixing scrub cleanser
- 1 natural bristle scrub brush
- 1 handy mixer
- 1 microfiber cleaning cloth
- 1 bottle Eco-Me Home Cleaning Essential Oil
- Easy to follow instructions show you how to mix ingredients right from your own kitchen.
Re-nest posted the kits back in January, and as we dug deeper into the Eco-Me site, we really liked the variety of products and tips offered...
Originally posted by Heather on AT:Chicago.
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I bought the eco-me cleaning kit and it's just great. The good thing is that you don't buy any more expensive chemical products to "clean" your home. I love the smell of vinegar and olivie oil in the apartment. And I love the idea that nobody (children of course) can be harmed with it.
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I'm sorry, I am just always annoyed by the proliferating products that purport to be green - but seem like they are just making another thing for people to buy.
What's greener - buying brand new plastic bags to pick up dog poop? Or reusing the bags you inevitably accumulate?
Why on earth would you go out and buy plastic spray bottles when - hello - all your old cleaning products come in the same kind of bottles? You can relabel them if the aesthetic is important to you. Or mix up your eco-cleaning stuff in an old spaghetti sauce jar. Or a bucket. For heaven's sake.
Sorry to lose my temper, I just wish we could be a little more sensitive to what is truly a useful product, and what seems little more than greenwashing or using the eco label to justify more endless consuming.
view reversibleskirt's profile
What's nice about this is that you can assemble your own collection of the same things to present as a gift.
A spray bottle (repurposed or purchased) and some of the above items, plus a bottle of vinegar and baking soda and some essential oil, would make a great housewarming gift, or is just a good inspiration for transforming your own cleaning kit.
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In defense of the dog poop bags, they are biodegradable unlike a grocery store plastic bag. Plus if you are more diligent about bringing your own bags to the store with you the stash of plastic bags at home begins to dwindle.
view vertigo's profile
I have to agree with reversibleskirt; it is a good idea, and maybe would be nice to give someone wanting to make some changes, but are otherwise clueless, but really, the "greenest" thing, the most economical thing is to repurpose, or reuse. I get annoyed with the magazine "Real Simple"; so many things in there are so expensive, and just the thought of anything that pushes too much consumersim misses the point. You don't have to buy stuff all the time-sometimes I think people buy stuff b/c it makes them feel connected to the present in an overt way-like it doesn't matter that you do these things, live this way unless people SEE you buying it, or doing it....wow I digressed, sorry
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