These days, it’s clear that the traditional laundry soap products we’ve grown up with have done the opposite of what they promised — instead of cleaning our clothing, they’ve soiled it with toxic chemical compounds — along with the air, our homes and our bodies. Should we throw it all out and start from scratch? That makes the most sense.
But if you’re like me, you might feel sentimental about “clean laundry smell” and other relics of 20th century cleaning. So I did some research and found out that I can have my “clean laundry smell” and inhale it safely, too. I also found products that reinvent the wheel in delightfully unexpected ways.
Remember that it doesn’t just stop with the soaps... consider switching out PVC laundry baskets for beautiful, fair-trade woven baskets, and re-think the best source of all for clean laundry smell: a basket of clothes line-dried in the sun.
