Detergent

Savvy travelers know, whether you’re packing toiletries for a weeks-long European vacation or an overnight camping trip: less is more. The secret to lightening your load (and looking like a million bucks while you’re away from home) is to carry tiny versions of your favorite products. Read More »

How do I hate thee, traditional bottles of liquid clothing detergent? Let me count the ways:
1. You are heavy, and when I am carrying my laundry down 4 flights of stairs (and back up again), I really don't like adding your additional 5 pounds of weight to my burden.
2. When I measure you out into the lid/cup to pour you into the washer and then replace the lid, I always, always, always make a mess.
3. Sometimes I toss you in the hamper with the clean clothes that I'm carrying back home because, after all, I only have two hands, and then you leak your blue goo all over everything and I have to start from the beginning and rewash.
4. If I accidentally buy the wrong scent (which is usually any scent at all), my clothing comes out with a powerful aroma that probably doesn't go with whatever perfume I was planning to wear.

Nellie's All-Natural Laundry Nuggets, on the other hand, are just tidy little pre-measured balls of unscented natural cleaning goodness... Read More »

With the endless greening of all household cleaning products, it is about time that someone turned an environmentally friendly eye to the supplies that new parents need most. The people at Dapple have created a line of green, baby-safe household cleaners specifically targeted at stubborn formula and breast milk stains and odors. Every new mother should be able to breathe so easy.

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