This past week SC Johnson announced plans to provide complete product disclosure for its entire line of cleaning products by 2012. That includes listings of dyes, preservatives and fragrances. <Applause here.>
Readers of this blog are familiar with our frustration over manufacturers’ refusals to disclose product information on labels and packaging. Even well-known supposedly “green” brands [...]
As an update to yesterday’s New York Times’ Green Home launch, we urge you to review the reader comments concerning the article When It comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice. And don’t stop with the top 2 recommended comments by the editors (what’s that about?). It’s clear that readers found the interview as [...]
The New York Times is launching a new column today that will appear weekly online and sometimes in print called The Green Home. The stated goal of the column is to help consumers navigate the perils of the “new domestic landscape” in choosing among the vast array of products for the home that boldly claim [...]
The San Franciso Chronicle lists what to keep and what to toss from under the sink. Clean+istry has a longstanding bias against storing ANYthing below the kitchen sink, where humidity and water leaks too frequently lurk.
Alas, the luxury of space is limited to a fortunate few. The remainder of us should consider the following guidelines.
KEEP [...]
There’s quite a groovy post at yatzer covering the exhibit Fashioning Felt at the Cooper-Hewitt. Felt is a durable, tough, stain resistant material that we enthusiastically support for the making of stools…
And rugs…
and walls…
learn more about the magic of felt in these earlier posts:
what is felt?
stock back
indoor/outdoor rugs by liora manne
table slice trivet
little field of [...]
Clean+istry woke up this morning and asked ourselves “what is the most obvious thing we can write about today?” Why, removing chocolate stains, of course. Because it’s valentine’s day. Get it?
Valentine’s day is not Clean+istry’s favorite commercially-driven holiday and not simply because it tends to skew messy with, sometimes, irreversible consequences.
Although it is always [...]
Today The New York Times tackles the questions of how to dispense with ghosts and toxic household chemicals.
Joyce Walder writes an entertaining and surprisingly informative article about how to spiritually spiff up your home in the event that it is shared with an unwanted presence. (Don’t get excited however, she does not deal with the [...]
Consumer Reports rates Clorox Green Works Natural Bathroom Cleaner online before a more comprehensive report on Shower Cleaners is released in the September 2008 issue.
Designed for counters, shower doors, sinks, tubs, tile and other bathroom surfaces, the product manufacturer claims it to be 99.05% natural and made only with plant and mineral-based ingredients. [...]
Hoover turned 100 and to celebrate issued a line of special anniversary models called (drumroll, please) The Anniversary Edition.
The Convertible (pictured) features WindTunnel Technology and gives the user a green light when an area is clean (releasing one from the nagging question of how many passes are necessary to adequately clean a carpet).
Read more here [...]
Clean+istry frequently fields the question “what are HEPA filters and why should I care?”. When Clean+istry was just a pup, starting out in the world, we would sometimes end up in a cloud of dust while vacuuming. We were then forced to continue vacuuming the dust that we had recirculated. The circle of dust created was wicked [...]