Clean Well
Date: May 20, 2008 | Category: Home Furnishings, Kitchen, The Home
CleanWell is a revolutionary sanitizer that uses Ingenium, a unique blend of essential oils, which meets both EPA and FDA standards for germ-killing ability. CleanWell’s kid-friendly sanitizers, soaps, and wipes are made with ingredients from renewable plants such as thyme that don’t require pesticides during their growing process and are 100% biodegradable. The company’s products eschew any harsh chemicals, are not tested on animals, and now come in a variety of scents like orange vanilla, lavender, and ginger bergamot (with spearmint lime on the way). We also love that CleanWell’s PET bottles were designed for re-use with easy-to remove labeling. I buy mine at Spring on Polk Street when I am in San Francisco, but you can get your fix at Whole Foods or Target (or order them on Amazon).
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Steve Hengsperger
Date: May 27th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I’m sorry, plant-based does not equal non-toxic. Just look at all those natural cleaning products currently available that use natural ingredients consumers would rather avoid, such as petroleum distillates, some of which can cause cancer. And just because a cleaning product is biodegradable and made from plant-based sources doesn’t mean that it is without potential adverse effects on health.
Plant-based ingredients included in some green cleaners include limonene (a citrus-based oil), pine oil, and the foaming agent coconut diethanolamide — all of which can cause allergic dermatitis. And a recent study of natural and nontoxic consumer products found the suspected cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane in roughly half of 100 tested products — including several dishwashing liquids with words such as “Earth friendly” and “eco” in their brand names.
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