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Natural Dish Soap Guide
The vast majority of “natural” dish soaps contain a ton of chemicals that you don’t want to ingest when dish soap residue remains on dishes. This guide will help you buy the best natural dish soap–ones that work well and do not harm you or the planet.
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Safe, Natural Laundry Detergent Guide
1. Mama Suds 2. Christina Maser 3. Kind 4. Eco-Me 5. Tandi’s Naturals 6. Sonett 7. Meliora Skip to: Updated: May 2022 While I was never was a big fan of cologne, in my twenties I remember finding men who emitted the scent of Tide to be irresistible. For the last decade or so, Daylon’s […]
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Start Here: 5 Crucial Steps to Decrease Toxins in Your Home
This post will help you do the five most important things to detox your home. I will tell you exactly what to swap to make this as easy as possible to get the biggest bang for your dollars and your efforts.
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Automatic Toilet Cleaners: Searching for Good Stuff
When we moved into our new apartment this fall, I noticed that the bathrooms each had a clip-on automatic toilet cleaner, like this: I, of course, removed them immediately, partially because it somehow felt gross to pee on the thing the prior family peed on (not rational, but just icky), but also because I assumed […]
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22 Earth-Friendly Swaps for 2022
One of my goals for 2022 is to up my Green game. My home doesn’t have many products with toxins in them (although I’m far from perfect), but I want to do better by our planet. Below are 22 easy product swaps you can make that will reduce waste–please share your own ideas in the […]
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12 Little Ways You Can Help Save the Earth
I started Gimme the Good Stuff in 2010 with the goal of helping families get rid of toxins in their homes–without going full DIY or crazy with anxiety! Fortunately, most of the things we do to reduce our own toxic burden also benefits the planet–natural cleaning products tend to be friendlier to our waterways than […]
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8 More Things Keeping Me Sane
How are you all holding up? Here in New York, it’s starting to seem like this really is never going to end, and I’m feeling a sense of loss over the summer that we’d planned. Here are 8 things that are helping me stay semi-sane: Home improvement projects. Since we are rarely leaving the apartment […]
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Do Air Filters Kill Coronavirus?
August 2020 update: We believe that EVERY classroom that’s holding in-person learning should contain a HEPA air filter, and experts agree that this will be a key strategy in fighting the spread of COVID-19. You probably know that in real life (as in, the time before coronavirus, or BC as I’ve been calling it) I’m […]
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Safe All-Purpose Cleaner Guide
1. Attitude / 2. Aunt Fannie’s / 3. Branch Basics / 4. CleanWell / 5. Eco-Me / 6. Force of Nature / 7. MamaSuds Natural all-purpose cleaner is the bottle I reach for most often (besides maybe the wine bottle, hehehe). My kids are charged with cleaning more and more as they get older, and […]
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8 Things That Kill Coronavirus
What kills coronavirus? I’ve done some digging on what chemical compounds will kill the virus that causes COVID-19, and I wanted to share my findings with you guys. A complete list from the EPA can be found here. Do I need to remind you that I’m not a doctor or any kind of medical professional? […]