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 good [...]
Entries Tagged as 'antibacterial soap'
I’m Talkin’ Antibacterial Soap at Simple Organic Today
March 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: antibacterial soap
Results of Last Week for my Readers
January 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
I must be missing my girlfriends after the holiday break stuck with enjoying my family. I just want to chat away and tell you all a bunch of random stuff related to Kitchen Stewardship. If you’ll indulge me (again), here I go:
I ordered and received the canned tomatoes in glass jars from Tropical Traditions that [...]
Tags: antibacterial soap·canned goods·Cleaning·Michael Pollan·soap·tomatoes
Bath and Body Works/Triclosan Update: KS Responds to their Reply
September 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Cleaning, call to action
Triclosan Update! If you live in the Washington, D.C. area, please participate, and for everyone, please forward this info on to anyone you know in D.C.:
On September 12th Washington D.C. residents can wash their hands of Triclosan by dropping off any products they find in their homes that contain this ingredient at the Whole Foods [...]
Tags: antibacterial soap·soap·triclosan
Back to School: Are you Shopping for Hand Sanitizer or Handsoap?
July 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Cleaning, What to Buy, frugality
It seems way too early to be thinking about going back to school, but I see the stores are, so I bet some frugal planner parents are, too. Even though I won’t be going back to school this year (I’m a teacher in my former life, but I haven’t been since the year prior to [...]
Tags: antibacterial soap·back-to-school·Cleaning·handwashing·sanitizers·soap
Food for Thought: Hand Sanitizers in the Home
April 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Cleaning, What to Buy
It’s time to return to our first topic ever here at Kitchen Stewardship, antibacterial soap. We learned that triclosan, the common ingredient in antibacterial soaps, is bad news for the environment and our health, as well as overkill for our hands. Good hand-washing with regular soap is all we need.
An incredibly popular option for hand [...]
Tags: antibacterial soap·Cleaning·green cleaners·handwashing·kids·sanitizers·soap
Monday Mission: Handwashing and Antibacterial Soap
February 23rd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Cleaning
Monday Mission #1: Increased Handwashing and Decreased Antibacterial Soap
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is three-fold (I know, I’m not supposed to overwhelm you. I can’t help it! The third one I just added, but it’s important, and easy.):
Inspect your household for triclosan. Reveal it and decide how [...]
Food for Thought: Antibacterial Soap
February 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Cleaning
This is part two of a three-part series on antibacterial soap.
Time for your first serving of “Food for Thought“. Put your thinking caps on – here’s the science of washing your hands:
Start with water: water has a cohesive property. It likes to “stick” to itself. This explains why water forms droplets, why those water strider [...]
Tags: antibacterial soap·Cleaning·handwashing·soap·triclosan

















