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Your laundry detergents dirty little secret

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Your laundry detergents dirty little secret

‘Bulking agents’ are not just for body builders and ‘fillers’ are not just for cracks. Unfortunately they are both polluting your laundry and effecting your health and chances are, you don't even realise. Unless you’ve looked further than the back of your laundry detergent box, you will be shocked to find out what they actually contain. I know I was. Not shocked actually. More like horrified. Granular bulking agents and fillers are the shit (and not as in... ‘da shit’ but actual shit!!) that is added to laundry detergents to make their volume larger and give you the perception that you are getting...

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Natural stain removal tips for natural disasters

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Natural stain removal tips for natural disasters

If we had a dollar every time we were asked… *Drum roll* ‘Buuuut, how do they work on stains? We would be living on an island in the Maldives, in one of those little huts on the water, sipping cocktails in our bikinis, getting our feet rubbed and hand fed grapes by Sven the Swedish backpacker. Alas… we don’t. So here goes… Soapberries work as well as chemical detergents. So if you would normally treat a stain before you popped it in the wash with a chemical detergent, you will still need to treat a stain when you use soapberries....

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100% essential hotness in a bottle!

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100% essential hotness in a bottle!

Hold onto your tweed caps urban hipsters, we have a new sexified laundry tonic range, made from 100% pure essential oils and we literally can't stop staring at their beauty and sniffing their gloriousness! We predict these bad boys are going to fly out the door. Our new range of four tonics can be used with our 'Organic Soapberries' or our 100% pure Australian 'Wool Dryer Balls'. These hot little numbers will add freshness and fragrance to your washing and drying loads without adding anything nasty - no chemicals, fillers or synthetic fragrances. Made with 100% pure essential oils, they can...

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Laundry detergent manufacturers do not, by law, need to disclose what is actually in their products.

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Laundry detergent manufacturers do not, by law, need to disclose what is actually in their products.

WTAF?? Yes, you read that right. Cleaning and detergent manufacturers don’t have disclose on their packaging, the ingredients they have in their products. We actually have no idea what we are exposing ourselves to, and can only assume it won’t kill us. Well not straight away anyway! Continuous and repeated exposure to harsh chemicals can add up and cause skin irritations, sore throats, respiratory disorders and even liver and kidney damage. Some of the chemical nasties which hide in traditional laundry detergent are: Sodium Laurel Sulphate (SLS)This bad boy is in laundry detergent and so many personal hygiene and cleaning products it isn’t funny! Shampoos, bubble-baths,...

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Keeping your organic fabrics, organic.

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Keeping your organic fabrics, organic.

So you forked out the dosh for high quality organic fabrics for your family – organic cottons for your bubs – (check out the divine Lulu in organic clothing from Aster & Oak), organic bamboo clothing for yourself and linens for your bedding because they feel freeeaking amazeballs and you want top shelf chemical free gorgeousness for your nearest and dearest. BUT did you know when you wash your clothes with traditional laundry detergents you are adding chemicals to your organic fibres? Things like Sodium Laurel Sulphate, bleaches, dyes, synthetic fragrances and zeolites, which can diminish the quality of your...

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