n this site you will find more than 1000 links to products that benefit your health and the environment. After more than 25 years as a consumer advocate for health and the environment and looking for products to use in my own personal life, I know where to buy a few things and how to choose green and nontoxic products. 
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Cleaning
Maggie's Soap Nuts
"Soapnuts" are nature's laundry soap. They are the dried fruit of the Chinese Soapberry tree, which contain saponin, a natural cleaner used for thousands of years to clean clothes. These completely unprocessed nuts--used by people all over the world--release their soap when the shell comes in contact with water. You just drop a few nuts in a small cotton bag and place it in the washer with your items to be washed. I tried these and everything came out clean and soft. No fragrance, no residues. After several loads of wash (I got three loads from mine), you can just toss the remaining shells in the compost pile. Site also contains instructions for making a liquid cleaner from soap nuts that can be used for washing humans and pets, fruit and vegetables, spot treating laundry, hand washing delicates, cleaning kitchens and bathrooms, washing cars and plants, repelling pests, cleaning jewelry, and washing windows (they sell it ready-made now too, with lavender and tea-tree oil added). About 50 cents a load. "Maggie's Pure Land reserves the Soapberry harvest years in advance, providing families with guaranteed income from living Soapberry trees. By using Maggie's Soap Nuts you are preserving tropical forests! You are supporting real people in their local economies, cultures and communities! You are using the safest, most natural product available!"
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Mary Moppins
This interesting website offers some great tools for cleaning plus a Precision Home Cleaning System that will allow you to do all your housekeeping quickly and efficiently (her book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning tells how to do everything--even make the bed). Mary's patented mop lets you use one handle and cleaning head to mop floors, dust walls, wax floors, wash windows, and more, just by changing what you put in the head. You can clean the floor with a terry cloth towel and toss it in the washer. Mary is a professional cleaner who is intently and sinerely making the switch to green. Her products and formulas are changing as she learns. But the mop is a winner right now!
OregonVISIT WEBSITE
Howard Naturals
All-natural cleaning products, including wood cleaner and polish, wood preserver, upholstery cleaner, granite and marble cleaner, and stainless steel cleaner and polish--all made with vegetable-based natural oils and waxes and no solvents. Choose products "with the added touch of aromatherapy" (natural essential oil and fragrance blend) or fragrance-free.
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Kir DeVries Natural Ultra Concentrated Cleaner & Laundry Soap
"Simplify your life, reduces the toxins in your home and save money with one easy to use ultra concentrated home cleaning product." This really is the most concentrated product I've ever used. Two squirts from an inconspicuous slim bottle does a whole load of laundry and gets it clean (I've been trying a sample). "We use three natural, non toxic cleaning agents and two preservatives required by law. So there is no more toxic residue left lingering on your clothing, dishes, hands, counter tops and tubs." Designed to clean everything from one bottle. Safe to use in dishwashers, regular & HE laundry machines. Cleans dishes, hard surfaces, laundry, hands, kitchen and bath, pets and more. Free of fragrances and dyes.
MarylandVISIT WEBSITE
Shaklee Get Clean Cleaning Products
A full line of cleaning products made from "sustainably sourced natural ingredients" and "no hazardous ingredients." They are natural, biodegradable, fragrance-free, and super-concentrated (which makes them very economical to use and reduces a lot of packaging). And, Basic H2 has so many uses, it is truly a multi-use product. Products have zero impact on global warming from 100% offset of greenhouse gas emissions. For a free sample of a fragrance-free dryer sheet, visit www.safehomecleanhome.com .
GeorgiaVISIT WEBSITE
Soap Hope
Buy your favorite brands of all-natural soap online and 100% of the profits will be invested in microloans for women in poverty. "We research every maker for you to ensure our products are 100% all-natural. There are NO artificial preservatives, fragrances, colors, parabens, or other harmful chemicals in any products at Soap Hope, and all products are cruelty-free. You can feel safe with every product we carry." Soaps include bar and liquid soaps, shampoo, laundry soap, cleaning products and more.
TexasVISIT WEBSITE
E.logical / Nyco Products
Green Seal certified industrial cleaning products, including a multi-purpose cleaner with citrus oils and hydrogen peroxide, a degreaser, glass cleaner, and bathroom cleaner. No known human toxicity, carcinogens or reproductive toxins, no offensive fragrances, no endocrine disruptors, biodegradable. In addition to Green Seal certification, these products meet standards required for LEED credits, Federal Government General Services Administration (GSA) purchasing standards as Environmental Preferable Products, H2E Hospitals for a Healthy Environment health & safety requirements, NGO Healthy Schools Program criteria for cleaners in schools, and NISH and affiliated program's recommendations for cleaning chemicals. Appropriate for recommendation to schools, nursing homes, daycare centers, hospitals, and workplaces. Go to "our Products" tab and choose "e.logical" for links to individual products. For home use, call for referral to purchase from local distributors.
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