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Mrs. Meyers = not green. Loads of dangerous chemicals. Google it, read the labels. Smells great, but even that aroma may be bad for you. Scent equals a chemical molecule, which is entering your nose and therefore, your body. Check to see if this stuff is safe for you to breathe, make your own decision..but don't call it "green." I'm amazed that the cache of "green" still clings to this company. We've all fallen for the product packaging. Stop drinking the Koolaide, people. Totally agree with LittleMissSunshine

Can someone explain the table in the second picture--it is lovely, but how is it standing up? How many legs are there, and at what angles? Is the base of the table some sort of pipe?

"Naturally-derived" means nothing in terms of assessing the health risks to you or your children. Petroleum is natural; it comes from nature. I would hope this website would stop shilling for companies that are contributing directly to the increased toxicity of our environment. You can't go into any store, school, or office without being overwhelmed by the off-gassing from plastic, cleaners, carpeting, markers, etc. That new car smell--that's not a "good" thing....

Mrs. Meyers is natural? Well, I suppose anything that comes from planet Earth is "natural," including saccharin, gasoline, and correction fluid.

But healthy? I'm not a chemist, but there are an awful lot of "methyls and benz" in this list. Are these petrochemicals? Do I want my child or dog to breathe these? This stuff is absorbed through the skin and lungs, and there may be a cumulative effect from ALL the different products we use. Plus, why do we need to use petroleum products at all? My understanding is that methyl anythign of benz anything is terrible--endocrine disruptors? Maybe. Neurotoxins? Maybe.

Try soap, hot water and elbow grease.

ingredients in Mrs. Meyers' All Purpose Cleaner (from the Mrs. Meyers website):
Water, Decyl Glucoside, Sodium Methyl 2-Sulfolaurate, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Citrate, Fragrance*, Ocimum Basilicum (Basil) Oil, Carum Petroselinum (Parsley) Seed Oil, Piper Nigrum (Black Pepper) Seed Oil, Betula Alba (Birch) Bark Extract, Glycerin, Caramel, Disodium Ethanoldiglycinate, Methylisothiazolinone, Benzisothiazolinone

My mother always gives me salt to bring out the flavor in life, a (new) broom to sweep cares away, and something else. I forget...it might be a new apron. We are African American, but this tradition seems to have traction in many other cultures as well. I am very superstitious and still have the container of salt from my last move three years ago.

There are so many prejudices and assumptions at work it boggles the mind. "Laziness." "Inability to prioritize." It is entirely clear that people make really far-reaching assumptions about people based on their physical size. I agree most with Trish 1980 and offer this for pondering--in fact, most of the extremely overweight people I know are the OPPOSITE of lazy--raising families, working extremely hard at their jobs [plural], doing lots of uncompensated community service, putting in extra unpaid hours. I agreee that not being skinny is not a priority for them--they don't carve out time for yogalates and spending hours choosing artisinal bok choy. But please remove any suggestion of laziness from the discourse. If anything, the people who are willing to spend hours pondering every calorie, reading tome after tome about mazimizing life span through particular combinations of foods, and yes, commenting on AT posts, are narcissists.

I've seen prostitutes who are incredibly skinny. And drug dealers. My mother is a bit overweight, lives on vegetables and home-cooked meals with healthy meats, gardens every day--and will out-live most of us.

Examine your assumptions. Is that person lazy--or that person the hardest working person you know? Stop attributing qualities to people based on their appearance. You don't know what that person goes home to. A larger than average person could be a well-educated, HARD-WORKING person who goes home to such a wacky home life and has NO TIME to exercise. But is that person kind? Funny? Smart? Thoughtful? Meanwhile, I see LOTS of skinny people with foul mouths and fouler opinions.

Check your logic. The coincidence and good luck that a natural foods grocer is in your neighborhood is NOT a priority that you have set. That would be like me saying that I set a priority that Ann Taylor would open a store near me and that is why I am so well-dressed. That is called fantastical thinking.
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I agree--every dollar you spend is a vote. But the ballot boxes have already been STUFFED, and the election tampered with (by Big Agribusiness, Big Petroleum, and the US Govt).

At first I hated it...and then I thought a similar thought to bodicegoddess and Sunny Blue.

Stars, maybe.

Also, the proximity to the illuminate beer-logo is what I DO like about it. Because it's NOT an illuminated beer-logo....

Thanks for assuming I'm a man. I am not. However, my guests include 5 year old boys, MEN, and a host of others with HORRIBLE aim. Plus, everyone knows that when you flush...I won't get into details, but as an experiment, try putting blue dye in the toilet and then flushing. Guess what--blue dye-painted toilet lid!!!

And heaven forfend you are not in the habit of closing the lid before flushing. I think AT jumped the shark with this one.

Bluntly, this seems gross to me. How do you clean these properly without destroying the artwork? And I lump these in with the other insane toilet artworks, like the goldfish tank toilet, etc. A toilet should be able to be cleaned, scrubbed, scalded, debraided--whatever word you want to use. Porcelain, stainless steel. I'm also against WOOD toilet seats. Ew.
I mean this entirely apart from the merit of the art--I do not mean to take away from the artist's effort to make something fun. But....ew....

Plastic, plastic, and more plastic.
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re: Catherine_g: I agree.

Our local natural foods store offers liquid suds in bulk. You can bring in your own container.

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Vinegar works well, comes in a glass bottle.

Also-buy detergent in a cardboard box [borax, Seventh Gen, Ecover]--Peak oil is almost here, and we need to wean ourselves off of plastic.
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Sometimes, just super hot water and a little elbow grease works--I guess that is the notion behind the steamer. I just wash my counters with scalding water. And I try to have cleaner habits so everything doesn't need de-greasing.

As far as dishwashers--as an experiment--run the dishwasher with NO soap--the dishes get clean. Maybe not perfectly clean, but they are sterile: (I call it good enough for me, but not "company clean." Keep adding tiny bits of detergent until you find the least amount you need to be satisfied with the results.