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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 [...]

Call to Action: Bath and Body Works Anti-antibacterial Soap Letter

August 5th, 2009 · 28 Comments · Call to Action, Cleaning

Welcome Fight Back Fridays from Food Renegade! Please check out Analyzing Aluminum in August as well. Your second Call to Action is an idea that’s been percolating in my head for a few years now, and I’m finally going to do it (and ask you to join me!). Last week I discussed the problem of [...]

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

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

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 [...]

Food for Thought: Hand Sanitizers in the Home

April 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · 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 [...]

2nds of Food for Thought: The evil villain Triclosan…

February 21st, 2009 · 15 Comments · Cleaning

This is part three of a three-part series on antibacterial soaps. Part one: My Relationship with Soap Part two: Food for Thought: Antibacterial Soap What is Triclosan? Triclosan is the chemical added to anti-bacterial soaps (or triclocarbon for bar soaps) with the aim of killing bacteria. It is non-discriminatory in that it won’t only kill [...]

Food for Thought: Antibacterial Soap

February 21st, 2009 · 5 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 [...]