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Monday Mission: Find and Replace SLS

October 31st, 2011 · 41 Comments · Green Living

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to read your soap and cleaning labels, seek out "sodium lauryl sulfate" and "sodium laureth sulfate," then begin to look for natural alternatives. (Can you see why I just wrote "SLS" in the title?) Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Since last year’s natural personal products [...]

Sign, Buy, Free & Win: Around the Blogosphere this Week

July 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Call to Action, What to Buy

Sign this. I’ve been ranting about the evils of triclosan and how it drives me mad that Bath and Body Works includes it in everything for years now. (Here’s a letter some of us sent to B&BW two summers ago before school started. And since we’re coming up on back-to-school time – no, we’re not!!! [...]

Triclosan FDA Update on Antibacterial Products

April 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Call to Action, Cleaning

You knew I couldn’t keep quiet about this. Just three weeks ago, I was telling you to get the triclosan out, and from the moment I started Kitchen Stewardship I’ve been passionate about getting the word out that antibacterial is bad stuff. Now it’s in the news and under fire. In one on my first [...]

The Biology of Antibiotic Resistance (Or “Mommy, Where do Superbugs Come From?”)

March 26th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Cleaning, Food for Thought

This is a guest post by SnoWhite of Finding Joy in My Kitchen. This week there has been a focus on getting the antibacterial soaps out of our homes. As a biologist, I am excited by this because our overuse of these soaps actually contributes to bacteria no longer being killed by antibiotics. How does [...]

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Antibacterials Out

March 22nd, 2010 · 61 Comments · Cleaning

Welcome, spring! If you’re not from Michigan, spring may be a season that speaks of flowers, sunshine, and green leaves on trees. Around here, it’s just confusion, all the time. Case in point: Thursday, we were easily outside in short sleeves. Saturday we woke up to snow on the ground. What season is this? Even [...]

Monday Mission: Get the Antibacterial Soap Out!

March 22nd, 2010 · 35 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to rid your home of the chemical triclosan and just use regular old soap to avoid the dangers of antibacterial soap. This is a return of the first ever Monday Mission topic, and one rather dear to my heart in a strange, fixated way. Impact Ratings: Level [...]

I’m Talkin’ Antibacterial Soap at Simple Organic Today

March 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

I’m honored and excited to be part of the writing team at Simple Organic, one of the new blogs of the Simple Living Media family founded by Tsh at Simple Mom. Today I’m talking antibacterial soap, one of my weird passions and the very first Monday Mission ever here at Kitchen Stewardship. You’ll learn about [...]

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