Today I saw another commercial promising to magically remove stains from your laundry. All you had to do was buy another product just for stains, throw it in with your laundry and laundry detergent and presto bamo! no more stains. Some women I know adore this idea of a quick fix, but those same 
people are often the last ones to ask what chemicals are in the product that are strong enough to do that.
Most laundry detergents and softeners are not required by law to disclose the chemicals in each product. The same goes for most soaps and cleaners marketed for “household” use. So if you can figure out what powerful chemicals are in those magic stain removers and powerful detergents, it is liable to be things that you would not volunteer to wear on your clothing next to your skin or your child’s skin all day.
So what to do about stains? Keep a stick of blackboard chalk in your laundry room. Simply rub a little chalk on a stain before throwing it into the wash. The chalk powder absorbs grease, leaving the stain easy to remove by the laundry detergent.
And what about all those soaps? Well, I don’t want to get up on my soap box (pun intended), but soap is soap. There is no need to have a soap for the floors and a soap for your hands and a soap for your hair and a soap for your face, etc, etc. Finding a basic liquid and a basic bar soap without chemicals and additives is really all you need. Companies that sell a soap or cleaner for every little surface in your house and on your body just make money selling more bottles of the same chemical laden crap to you. In our household, we buy J. R. Watkins “dish soap” for a liquid household cleaner. We make our own vegan bar soap for hand washing and body washing and we simply use vinegar mixed with club soda for an all purpose surface/floor/window cleaner. The vinegar we buy from Sams Club is $1.30 / gallon. It saves a surprising amount of money and leaves us with a peace of mind knowing our house isn’t covered in nasty chemicals.
To get the job done, we have found that Trader Joe’s laundry detergent and Seventh Generation Laundry detergent are paraben-free liquid detergents that are concentrated and work well. For the dishwasher, we use Mrs. Myers Automatic dishwashing detergent. We have tried using our household liquid soap, but the dishwasher needs a higher concentration to get things clean. Selecting a chemical free dishwasher soap is vitally important, because it is inevitable that some soap will stick to your dishes and be ingested as you use them to eat.
This December I read an article on Treehugger.com addressing healthy armpits. Armpits are a common conundrum among health nuts like myself who have decided not to use deodorizers with chemicals and metals in them. So many armpit products today advertise as an “antiperspirant”. But do you really know why they work or how?
natural salts to kill the bacteria that eat your sweat and exude that awful stink you are trying to get rid of in the first place. Get rid of the bacteria producing the smell, don’t force your skin to swell shut preventing natural sweat.
or reduce your impact on the earth? Well, if those things appeal to you, sign up for a one week trial of guided 
held in hand. He told us it is the only thing that works and turned to leave. Dylan and I looked at each other. I grabbed a tube of 
A fence around the solar farm keeps the sheep in and the people out. Sheepdogs like Border Collies have hit the spotlight helping to move the sheep around. The sheep cut the grass for free and provide wool.
Let your skin regulate itself by producing natural oils that protect the skin and keep it moisturized. Washing your face strips your skin of it’s natural defenses, leaving it dry and vulnerable, often leading to an overproduction of oil that causes acne breakouts. It is a vicious cycle. Go cold turkey and see what “nothing” can do for you! The day you start this method, use a mild scrub (see below) and steam the follow day to start the cleansing process.
Hot water strips away the natural oils in your skin, leaving it dry. If you can’t stand a cold shower, take a warm shower (not hot) and turn the shower handle to cold at the very end when you rinse your face. If there are very oily spots on your face, go ahead and gently rub them with your fingertips, but on most days just a cold rinse should be enough.
warm water and an all natural paraben-free 
A cheaper and more natural alternative is to use organic coffee grounds from your morning brew. Coffee grounds not only exfoliate, but the caffeine helps tighten your pores giving you smooth skin. If you have dry skin, you can add a tablespoon of cold-pressed coconut oil to a handful of coffee grounds and use to exfoliate.
processed sugars, 
To get from your garage to your home, you still have to walk through your yard and be seen by your neighbors. Our vehicles dominate the distance between home, school, work, grocery and family. And they even govern how we build our homes. Most households have one car for every legal driver and most cars on the free way carry just one driver. Some of us have better insurance on our vehicles than on ourselves. We spend more on oil changes and car repairs each year than we do in our own routine checkups and preventative care. It is all very fascinating.
Their Jetta TDI gets 40+ mpg. Alas, the price tag was hefty and the 2009 models were nearly all gone. (We thought that odd since 2009 is only half over and their 2010 don’t hit the road until November at the earliest. We suspected that there were some bugs in the clean diesel model that caused them to be pulled from the production line for 2009. VW hasn’t made diesel engines from 2006-2009). The Yaris was cheap ($16,000 tripped out) and the most fuel efficient gas car in its class. It gets us from point A to point B on a low budget. When we get rich, we’ll be the first one’s line for a Tesla car though, trust me. 
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