My quest to be more green didn't start until I had kids. I didn't seem to care about what was in my food, that I had to air out my house for hours after cleaning it and had no problem using all sorts of chemicals to get rid of ants, weeds, and so on. I used to be a bleach and paper towel addict.
Then I brought home my first little bundle of joy...and she changed everything! I started to care BIG time about the products I used and what we were eating. I started a quest to find safer products for cleaning our home, started getting a farm box each week of organic produce and stopped having the pest people coming out to spray lord knows what all around our house. We took big steps in the right direction.
Then my 2nd bundle of joy arrived. This bundle had allergies...poor girl! Finding a laundry soap that didn't cause a rash was hard (no matter how "green" or "sensitive" it said it was!). We were constantly thinking she had a cold and kept coming back from the doctor with the same diagnosis--allergies. That is when I discovered the company that I am now an advisor for--H2O at Home. It took me from being sort-of-kind-of-green-at-least-I'm-buying-the-products-that-claim-to-be-eco-friendly to being the green person I am today. I had 2 bins of cleaning products that didn't work---I gladly got rid of them and replaced them with a couple products that do a better job and the packaging is cute too :) It was a friend who told me about H2O at Home at a playgroup b/c i think she was tired of hearing me complain about cleaning products that don't work. She hooked me with things like "clean your windows with just a microfiber and water" or "use a tub a clay that cleans everything from silver to marks on the walls to granite to bathrooms." This friend did not sell the products she just loved them. After using them and finding out there were no advisors in my area I decided to go for it b/c I knew they would be a hit with everyone who tried them. I'm so glad I did!
I think back to the first time I saw the products and how I felt like I was let in on a cleaning secret. It annoys me that we have been trained to keep buying these ineffective cleaning products that need to be constantly replaced and they are so full of harmful chemicals. Or that there is no standard for saying a product is green in the US. I try to educate people and help them learn how to read lables. You read it for your food--why not for what you are using for what you are cleaning with?
The other day my husband was cleaning out his truck. He took out one of the kids carseats and if you have kids you know how bad it can get under a carseat! I have no idea what the heck they spilled but on one side it was like a black goo and on the other side looked like a raspberry smoothie had been dumped. We used to use this fabric cleaner on our cars. Lord knows what's in it but it smelled pretty bad and we'd air out our cars for a few days. H2O at Home has this all purpose microfiber mitt that other advisors had been swearing lifts stains out of rugs and carpets with just water. I figured it wouldn't hurt to try--and it worked! And even better my husband was SHOCKED that it worked. He kept asking...just water?
So that is how I went from being a recovering bleach addict to someone who uses just chemical free cleaning product and doesn't buy paper towels anymore!
To learn more about my company go to www.myh2oathome.com/molly