Spring Greening

Ecofriendly cleaning products to whip your kitchen into shape.

can re-fill all your Ecover cleaning products as well. I haven’t done it yet but it occurred to me to bring an empty pepper mill down there and just stick the peppercorns straight in there!

the source. Solution? I keep some baggies and medium sized plastic garbage bags in the house in case the smelly ones arrive, and transfer any food into the good ones. I also use the fragrance-free dishwashing liquid from...

noting its use in cleaning cookware: http://www.leavesofjade.com/index.php/tea_blog/pages/rust/ This brand discusses the ingredients – essentially salt, oxygenated water and lime (which ends up, I think, as just calcium)....

Generation and Ecover household product lines and a good amount of health and beauty products. All in all it is a lovely, refreshing and needed addition to the area. I hope they keep up quality and inventory and do well.

has very soft water. We had been using a major brand of supermarket dishwasher detergent. For that reason, we now use only Belgian Ecover brand dishwasher detergent, http://www.ecover...

how about ecover?

when I flipped it over. I assume the stink is somehow associated. I’ve tried cleaning this in very hot water with soap to no avail; the dark stain remains as does the stink. I’ve also tried some gentle household...

's the phosphate which causes the crazing. Ignore the recommendation of the dishwasher manufacturer; I’ll bet that there’s some ulterior reason for the recommendation,. I use Ecover (this is an unpaid endorsement)...

based, fragrance free, brands such as “Seventh Generation” and "Ecover" (be sure to read the labels as they also offer scented versions). Now that i’ve gotten all the old stuff out of my home I have less...

supermarkets won’t have some things, like: —fairtrade foods (ideally coffee, tea, sugar, chocolate, bananas, etc. but I’ll take whatever I can get) —biodegradable washing powder/washing up liquid/household...

, Ecover ...etc. It’s not just whether it’s scented or not, but also whether it’s petroleum-based surfacant or not. The ones that don’t leave a residue,...they don’t cost that much more. I find I can...

- and to reduce crazing of your glassware. Like Ecover (my unpaid endorsement).

There’s Ecover Natural. Maryland is trying to pass legislation to ban phosphorus in DW detergents because they foul the Chesapeake Bay. It has been seriously restricted in laundry detergents for 22 years. Washington State...