tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33195626.post6528944912302863915..comments2023-10-18T03:54:15.636-05:00Comments on Plum and Blue: Product PlacementAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08697016985940799359noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33195626.post-80638903156699252662007-06-28T19:19:00.000-05:002007-06-28T19:19:00.000-05:00The cloth diaper people swear by leaving cloth out...The cloth diaper people swear by leaving cloth out in the sun to bleach. It sounds as crazy as cloth diapering. Since we're putting our skepticism aside and experimenting with the latter, I tried laying a soiled one out to dry. After a few hours in the sun, the diaper was dry and the spot dwindled from the size of a tea saucer to a few specks on the inner layers. I'm now a believer. I think another round would remove all traces of the yellow, but I didn't set it back out. Anyway, I'd say that's a pretty green option. The active ingredient is fusion.Shereehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10258976416231029174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33195626.post-59863025897541545862007-06-28T09:54:00.000-05:002007-06-28T09:54:00.000-05:00No stain removers/household cleaners are without t...No stain removers/household cleaners are without their respective "active ingredient" which is typically some form of anthropogenic compound. Here is a list of Material Safety Data Sheets for Simple Green (which I found when I was sure I exposed Gillian in utero to lethal levels of it when our adminstrative person sprayed it to clean our dry erase board (in a very small office space-even though is smells like licorice, it really doesn't lack an underlying smell of something chemical-ish).<BR/>http://www.simplegreen.com/pdfs/07_msds_simple_green_&_pad.pdf<BR/><BR/>At any rate, the active ingredient is 2-butoxyethanol in Simple Green (also affectionately known as Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE)). It has mostly been associated with hemolytic anomalies in chronic exposure studies, and respiratory effects at significantly high levels with acute exposure. Either way, unless you're huffing it on a regular basis, you will be fine. Obviously, ingestion is another story altogether. It is true that anything, including water, can be toxic at high enough doses...as Paracelsus said 500 years ago, ~"the dose makes the poison".<BR/><BR/>Something from my agency on EGBE (in plain English): http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/phs118.htmlMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07130322711328248564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33195626.post-57748711477912323082007-06-26T16:27:00.000-05:002007-06-26T16:27:00.000-05:00Tide is, and always has been, superior. Try Tide ...Tide is, and always has been, superior. Try Tide and Spray N Wash and see what happens. Those two are the favorite combo in my family and my experience, too.<BR/><BR/>The Simple Green headquarters are located about 40 miles south of where I live. They rest gently in a large green building, Cape Cod style, on a peninsula in a marsh next to the ocean. Pretty place. They *look* clean. Then again, Simple Green is what we used to clean paint off the silk screens and rollers in graphics class, so how "green" can it be? I'd say it's probably pretty toxic. But what isn't? <BR/><BR/>Anyway, Simple Green smells delovely. Floods me with memories of screenprinting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com