The Demonizing of Petrochemical Surfactants

This is a post I just wrote for the Glass Smart Products blog. I thought I might introduce some new ideas about the cleaners we use. I have always believed that there are many of us that are concerned about the “soaps” in our buckets. Well here is some interesting proof that you all are in fact more accurate than even you knew. Who knew?

Henry

The upshot of the blog is:

  • there are loads of harmful chemicals in commercial cleaners like Dawn
  • there are natural alternatives like Thieves soap that use loads of essential oils

Thanks for the good info Henry. I am happy with my Ecover… for now.

Its a great product. I have experimented with it. Less sudz than Dawn. I’m looking into the pure syn-dets used in Ecover. They are plant based. Still petro chems. Fatty acids you know. But if there are no really bad by products like 1, 4 Dioxane like what is in Dawn,I would be happy.

Henry

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