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Results of Last Week for my Readers

January 6th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized

Pin ItI 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 [...]

Bath and Body Works/Triclosan Update: KS Responds to their Reply

September 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Call to Action, Cleaning

Pin ItTriclosan 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 [...]

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Back to School: Are you Shopping for Hand Sanitizer or Handsoap?

July 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Cleaning, Frugality, What to Buy

Pin ItIt 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 [...]

Food for Thought: Hand Sanitizers in the Home

April 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Cleaning, What to Buy

Pin ItIt’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 [...]

Monday Mission: Handwashing and Antibacterial Soap

February 23rd, 2009 · 21 Comments · Cleaning

Pin ItMonday 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 to approach each [...]

Food for Thought: Antibacterial Soap

February 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments · Cleaning

Pin ItThis 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 [...]