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What's Inside Palmolive Ultra
...and why you might want to wear gloves.

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...

Good Question: Green Wedding Favors?

These handcrafted soaps from LifeTree Botanicals would be a great wedding favor for our green wedding, but I worry they might be out of our price range. Anyone have a great idea for something practi...

Mango and Avocado Soap on a Rope from Uncommon Goods

Soap on a rope is something we associate with a Sunday afternoon, a microwave and scrap fabric, but it just so happens that avocados and mangos are two of our most favorite things in the world....

Natural Cleaning with Zamuta Soapnuts

Why haven't we heard of these before? Introduced to the U.S. market in 2004, Zamuta Soapnuts are nuts from India's Rithra tree. The nuts contain a natural detergent (saponin) and can be used in laundr...