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How to disinfect laundry is a hot topic among cloth diaperers and those with compromised immune systems. While disinfecting is not something you need to do for every load, you may have to disinfect the laundry if someone in your household is sick.  In general, add your disinfectants after the machine has filled with water. Different fabrics [...]

Okay, so I was going to title this “Eco Nuts Goes Hollywood!” but then I thought that’s a little silly – we’re located in Los Angeles and we’re in Hollywood all the time. The title could just as epically be “Eco Nuts goes to the store!” Hollywood does sound glamorous though. And it is.. unless you’re [...]

We have a new product that’s in the end stages of development. We’re going to be giving away a few to celebrities this weekend at the Golden Globes Boom Boom Room, but why should celebrities have all the fun? Want to know what it is? We’re not ready to tell, just yet! For a chance [...]

Where do your lost socks go? I polled our facebook fans and the answer was undeniable:             Gnomes, by overwhelming response. All humor and kidding aside, there are a few places your socks can wind up and you CAN get them back! The Agitator you know that big “thing” in [...]

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I thought I’d share a fun story about me in High School. I had only been 16 maybe a couple of weeks when I went on a trip to Nicaragua with Bridges to Community. This was shortly after Hurricane Mitch hit and half the town we went to had been wiped out by a mudslide. [...]

I got the idea to do a science of laundry series on the blog when I was at the RDIA (Real Diaper Industry Association) meeting. We had a Laundry Science presentation which I thought was very interesting; and judging by all the non-laundry normal people that also thought it was interesting, I decided I’d do [...]

Surfactant: (pronounced Surf-Fact-Ent: Surf as in Surf’s up baby! Fact as in “Just the facts, Ma’am,” and Ent as in those giant trees walking around in Lord of the Rings) It means “surface active agent” and is the scientific word for soap at its most basic. Surfactant = Soap Surfactants change the surface tension of [...]

There are good reasons to use cold water and good reasons to wash on hot so let’s explore why temperature is important in certain situations and clear some myths and misconceptions about washing on cold and hot water. The cost/energy savings of washing in cold is obvious. I won’t argue with that for a second. [...]

We’re proud to announce our recent Parent Tested Parent Approved award! The PTPA Media Awards celebrate product excellence as rated by its members. Products are evaluated by over 40,000 volunteer parent testers. In fact here are a few things the parent evaluators had to say about us! “I was very skeptical about Eco Nuts™ at [...]