La Lavender Lady

Did you know that most of the laundry detergents and home cleaning products that you find on supermarket shelves have petroleum based chemicals in them.  Can that really be healthy for us?  And are fabrics washed in petrochemicals really clean and nice to have next to our skin?  Not to mention the ever rising cost of fuel!

But not to worry.  There are conscientious companies out there making good stuff for cleaning our clothing and our homes.

Seventh Generation is one of them. Check out their website & join their Seventh Generation Nation to get their newsletter and coupons.

Some others are  Ecover, EO & Ecos.  Links to them are provided over in the next column. 

Listen to this quote from the label on the Natural Laundry Detergent by Seventh Generation: 

"If every household in the U.S. replaced just one bottle of 100 oz. ultra petroleum-based liquid laundry degergent with our 100 oz. ultra vegetable based product, we could save 250,000 barrels of oil, enough to heat and cool 13,000 U.S. homes for a year!"

Wow!  What a way to save fuel.  Just think - if every household did this every 2 weeks - we would save over 5.5 million barrels of oil per year.  In 10 years, that adds up to over 55 million barrels of oil!  55,000,000!!  Now that would really be making a difference! 

 Check out the websites of these companies.  Some have newsletters, tips, and coupons.

EO has a very nice hand cleaner - smells & works great.  Also check out their soaps and bath products. 

Join the Seventh Generation Nation.  Great place for information on green living & the forces against it.  Become an educated consumer.

Ecos

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