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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 [...]

How to Make Your Own Homemade Safe Baby Body Wash {GUEST POST}

October 19th, 2011 · 46 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living

This is a guest post about how to make your own soap for baby by Erin Odom of The Humbled Homemaker When I became a mother, I starting thinking about my family’s health and nutrition for the first time. I breastfed (until my first daughter was almost 2 and still going with my second at [...]

Avoiding Chemicals for Baby Bottoms and Baths

October 12th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Green Living

Johnson & Johnson baby soap and Desitin were both among the products I purchased for baby Kimball number one six years ago. I also had a touchy relationship with them, because although I didn’t really question their ingredients at first, I was cautious about using them: Since babies seem to grab the tube of Desitin [...]

Back-to-School Bonanza: Got Stink? Try Bamboo Charcoal {REVIEW}

September 20th, 2010 · 6 Comments · What to Buy

The strangest looking thing is sitting in the soap tray in our bathtub right now. It’s black. It’s slippery. It’s heavy. But it makes white suds. Ever Bamboo makes products from bamboo charcoal, which is easily renewable, super porous, and even anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial, according to the company. Most of their products are for odor [...]

Monday Mission: Green Cleaners Resolutions

January 18th, 2010 · 47 Comments · Cleaning, Monday Missions, What to Buy

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make one change in your cleaning routine to be more kind to the Earth. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides I’ve been “green” for a few years in most of my cleaning with my triple threat cleaners, but I had a few areas that I [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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