Clean Up the Laundry

Why? Your clothes smell clean, right? I am sure they do, but regular laundry detergent is made out of oil, has harsh solvents, synthetic fragrances (with molecules very similar to hormones), and one of my biggest gripes - are not concentrated so you are paying more for the shipping and packaging of WATER. Here are a few more tidbits on laundry detergent from Ideal Bite:

• Oil (not mind) control. If every U.S. household replaces one box of 48-ounce, petroleum-based powder laundry detergent with a vegetable-based one, we'll save enough oil to heat and cool 5,300 homes for a year.


• Less irritation. Fragrances and harsh solvents such as ammonia in some conventional detergents can trigger allergies and asthma, and cause skin irritation.


• Joining a cult of fresh fragrances. You'll wanna take a nice, long whiff.


• Not losing concentration. All our fave liquid options are concentrated, so their production and transport uses less energy and packaging.

I use Seventh Generation - but there are lots of earth friendly and more people friendly options of laundry detergent out there!