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GrabGreen Non-Toxic, Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products

February 8, 2011 By

GrabGreen is a line of laundry, kitchen, and household cleaners that are non-toxic, biodegradable, never tested on animals, use minimal packaging, are made with naturally derived ingredients, and best of all, really work!  GrabGreen’s Patricia Spencer sent me a review kit of products so I could check them out for myself, and with the exception of the dishwasher detergent which I can’t review because we don’t have a dishwasher, I’ve actually been enjoying cleaning while using the GrabGreen products! I know, right?! ME, enjoying cleaning!
The products I got are the All-Purpose Cleaner, the Degreaser, the Dish Soap, a sample of the 3-in-1 Laundry Detergent, and the Automatic Dishwashing Detergent.  The laundry detergent is fragrance-free, the other products are Tangerine with Lemongrass scented, which smells great. The All-Purpose Cleaner takes care of greasy, sticky messes on composite, stone or tile countertops, linoleum, wood floors and more, with biodegradable ingredients. The Degreaser leaves a smear-free, clean surface on stove tops, kitchen floors, cook top hoods, inside the microwave, trash cans, sinks and more. I keep it next to my glass cooktop stove to take care of spills and clean up greasy spatters.

I’ve reviewed natural cleaning products before but have never been sent dish soap, so I had to see if GrabGreen Liquid Dish Soap really works as well as my usual “blue liquid” dish soap.  And, I’m happy to report, it does!  A couple of squirts took care of a meal’s worth of dishes, plus left that nice tangerine and lemongrass scent on everything.  GrabGreen’s dish soap is biodegradable, non-toxic and phosphate-free, and gentle on the hands.

Use the store locator on the GrabGreen site to see if there’s a retail location near you, otherwise I recommend buying the products directly from the website. Shipping is a flat-rate $6.50, or FREE for orders over $75.00.  Getting GrabGreen products to review has definitely turned me into a fan! Learn more at  grabgreenhome.com.

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Products Moms Will Love

May 14, 2009 By

Moms, I’ve been reviewing products that you can really use!  There are so many that in order to get them all posted, I’m going to do a big review round up for you.  Ready? Here we go!

FOOD:

O Organics is a line of organic foods that was once a private label for Safeway but is now being rolled out to stores around the country.  We sampled airplane graham crackers, freeze dried apple and strawberry bites, strawberry cereal bars, and bite size cheese crackers.  If your a Mom who likes buying organic products, O Organics won’t break your budget, and there’s a wide variety of foods including beverages, dairy products and cereals.  Everything we tried was delicious and I would buy them again.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter cooking and baking sticks have 50% less saturated fat than butter, 0g trans fats, 0 cholesterol, and are an excellent source of omega-3s. I received a package to sample, and I don’t know how they do it, but I found no difference in performance or taste. I put dabs of it on our cooked veggies at dinner, spread it on toast for the kids, scrambled eggs in it, and even used it to make grilled cheese sandwiches, with no difference that I could taste or see. Don’t eat saturated fat if you don’t need to! You should be able to find these at grocery stores for around $2.99 for four sticks.

CLEANING

Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Decor Canisters- I gotta be honest here, I appreciated getting these to review but I wouldn’t buy them again. Unless there was a sale plus a coupon that made them free.  Not because they don’t work, I mean, it’s a wipe with clorox cleaning liquid soaked in, which is the only thing that makes my boys’ bathroom clean on a daily basis.  The problem I have with this is 1., the part that the wipes are supposed to thread through so you can pull out one at a time? Is kinda flimsy and I end up just grabbing and yanking out a bunch at a time. Second,  I’m not going to look at cleaning wipes canisters as a complement to my “decor”. I’m going to keep them in the closet with all the other cleaning products, up on a high shelf where Kaitlyn can’t reach them. Sorry, Clorox!

CLOTHING

PeaceLoveMom sent me a wonderfully soft and comfy baby blue t-shirt that says “Happy Mom” on it with a big smiley face, and a matching ball cap. When they contacted me about the review and I went to the site, I was happy to see that they offer a “Fuller Cut” women’s tee. For, you know, us fuller-figured gals.  At $40, PLM tees are more expensive than ones from Target, BUT they are also made in the USA with 100% cotton and won’t shrink. I love mine!

PERSONAL CARE

Softsoap liquid hand soap has come out with a great idea for keeping at least a little plastic from being thrown away more often, their new Softsoap Ensembles feature refills that you use with the pump from the finished-up bottle of soap. They come in different designs and colors for a little splash of color in your bathroom. I like Softsoap, I buy it anyway, and I like the idea of being able to just take out the pump and put it in a new base.  Great idea!

I’ve got more reviews of products Moms will love coming up in the next post!

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My House Would Be Cleaner If I Wasn’t So Lazy

April 26, 2009 By

Parent Bloggers Network is doing a blog blast this weekend about housecleaning.  I wish I had a snappy post for you with a chore chart and a cleaning schedule and great tips for managing those daily chores and the weekly ones or whatever, but here’s the truth:

I Am A Lazy Slob

I like having my house be clean, don’t get me wrong. I don’t actually enjoy looking down my laminate floor hallway and seeing dust bunnies and bits of god knows what, it’s just that I’m too lazy to DO anything about it.

And now that I’ve read a few of the other posts that PBN bloggers are doing on this topic, I have found my sisterhood. Heather, Jenny, please teach me the secret handshake and send me the t-shirt, cuz I also have a husband who does the dishes and the laundry after work (even though I’ve been home all day and have no good reason not to have done them myself except for being LAZY).

This blog blast is sponsored by Pledge Multi-Surface cleaning spray, but because I didn’t get the post emailed to PBN on time, I won’t be getting a free can of it in exchange for writing this post. I might win a $250 VISA card that they are giving to someone at random, so yay!

I’m also totally bummed, because Pledge has this website called How I Clean Now and there’s a video message from Trish Suhr of The Style Network’s Clean House. AND, it says five BLOGGERS are getting cleaning interventions from Trish! I LOVE TRISH.

And, in what must be the definition of irony, I LOVE Clean House. I love it so much that my oldest son, who gets up early for school and watches a little TV, RECORDS Clean House for me at 6 AM! I don’t like
to clean, but I sure like watching other people do it!

So anyway, click that link up there for How I Clean Now to print out a $2 coupon for Pledge Multi-Surface, and visit Parent Bloggers Network for links to more housecleaning (or lack thereof) posts.

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