Best Eco-Friendly Products for Your Home and Family
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Move toward a more eco-friendly home one load of laundry at a time. Photo: iStock
Reduce the carbon footprint of your bathroom and laundry room
Instead of contributing to deforestation with traditional toilet paper, lean into better alternatives such as recycled or bamboo toilet paper. If you’re due to replace your toilet cleaning brush but, understandably, haven’t given much thought to what you’ll choose, think natural. This beechwood-handled, coconut-fiber scrubber packaged in a cornstarch bag will cut back on your carbon guilt.
Finding an eco-friendly toilet cleaner is tough. Bleach-free liquid options abound but come packaged in plastic. Seventh Generation’s formula — free of bleach, artificial fragrances and dyes — comes in a 100-percent recycled bottle. Or, you can sprinkle baking soda and vinegar in your toilet bowl and, with a little elbow grease, scrub away the gross stuff.
The newest trend in less-wasteful laundry is ditching big detergent jugs for eco-friendly sheets. If you’re a fabric softener fan, consider popular wool dryer balls, purported to reduce wrinkling and cut drying time by up to 25 percent. When the sun comes out, why not let it do some of the work for you? This clothes-drying umbrella is movable and collapsible, making it work in many spaces.
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