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Air fresheners are supposed to make your home smell fresh or clean or possibly like you’ve taken an instant trip to the Bahamas, but what are they really? Artificially scented aerosol sprays or cones or doodads that you plug into the wall that usually smell positively dreadful and hit you in the face whenever you walk into the room. Not to mention, there are all kinds of reports that conventional air fresheners can irritate asthma and contain toxins like cancer-causing phthalates and hormone altering endocrine disruptors! Why poison yourself when there’s a better way – our Aromatherapy Air Fresh Sprays! Our Air…

The ancient Egyptians are thought to have scrubbed their teeth with a special powder made from ox hooves and eggshells as far back as 5000 B.C. The Romans opted for sticks with frayed ends, while the Greeks used rough cloths. In 1498, the Chinese began attaching coarse boar hairs to bamboo or ivory handles, creating the earliest known version of a toothbrush. People used variations of the boar bristle toothbrush until 1938 when the DuPont Company introduced nylon bristles, which proved sturdier and more efficient than animal hairs. Thus, the modern toothbrush was born! The toothbrush has gone through many…

Everybody should brush their teeth twice a day, right? It’s a common practice that was instilled in us as children. But do you know what’s REALLY in your toothpaste? For one, mass market tooth cleaning pastes usually contain sodium lauryl sulfate aka shampoo base. The main reason manufacturers add SLS to toothpaste is not to help make your pearly whites even whiter. It’s to make it easier to fill the tube at the factory and to make the product more consistent when being squeezed out. SLS is a good emulsifier, lubricant and foaming agent, but you might want to think…

In 2016 Vermont Soap Company founder Larry Plesent was contacted by a gentleman in Egypt named Ahmed Safaa. Ahmed was seeking advice on how to make bar soaps the Vermont Soap way. Larry began mentoring Ahmed vial email in the basics of batch soap production. Fast forward through dozens of emails over the next two years and Ahmed is now the proud owner and operator of Safaa Solutions, a natural soap and personal care company! He just moved into a small clean factory where he is experimenting with liquid soap and deodorant production as well as successfully making and selling…

Most of what we call medicinal drugs are in fact synthetic versions of the healing molecules found in plants. Plants it seems, have been fighting cancer, virus, bacterial and insect pests for half a billion years. Since we plants and people are part of the same ecosystem and share DNA with all living things, their solutions often work for us two legged critters too. The pain reliever we call aspirin for example is a modern version of the ancient Gaelic recipe for infusing the inner bark of white willow in vinegar. Tamoxifen, recognized as effective in slowing the rate of…