Comments on Teri J.'s review of Laundry Detergent
Laundry Detergent
Description: A biodegradable cleaning agent.
Works great, but isn't as good for the environment as everyone thinks.
I LOVE Arm and Hammer Laundry detergent. It gets clothes very clean, and smells great. My husband is a mechanic and it actually gets his greasy clothes very clean. The price is great. Unfortunately, though, it isn't good for the environment. It contains optical brighteners. These are bad for the environment, per the Seventh Generation website states as follows:
"While this [optical brighteners] is generally harmless as far as our laundry is concerned, optical brighteners are less than benign from an environmental perspective. Many of the chemicals in this category are toxic to fish and other aquatic life. Some are also capable of causing mutations in bacteria. Compounding these problems is the fact that optical brighteners are also very slow to biodegrade into their less harmful component parts."
See the website http://www.seventhgen.com/household_hazards/optical_brighteners.php for the entire article the above is from. It's very facinating. That is why I have discontinued the use of Arm and Hammer.
Teri J.'s keywords: optical brighteners, clean clothes, baking soda
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