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Green Exterminator

There are some big bugs in Texas and occasionally they show up in your house. We have ants and roaches. I know that is disgusting – it’s not like they are all over the place. We just find one here or there in the kitchen or the bathroom. For me [...]

Green Cleaning

I just had my house cleaned top to bottom by a green cleaning company, TX Green Clean. I have mentioned before that my son has asthma and chemicals irritate his lungs. They did a fabulous job and they only used non-toxic products. They used a steam cleaner to disinfect and clean [...]

Shopping for Green Personal Care Products is Hard!

I have to say that one of the hardest things about going green is that it sometimes feels like I am looking for a needle in a haystack. All of the “green” products out there are overwhelming and since there is not much regulation yet, anyone can throw a green sticker on their [...]

Don’t use personal care products with Oxybenzone and Benzyl Alcohol if you have asthma!

This is pretty serious stuff. I want to thank Pat for posting about the soap nuts. When I was researching the soap nuts it opened up a huge can of worms. It brought me to a site listing all of the harmful chemicals found in fragrance products and listed the side [...]

Beginning my green journey in Austin

Hi and welcome to my blog!

So I started to really care about going green and being healthy when I moved to Austin.  When I lived in New York, I thought my town was nice, but the conditions all around New York City made it a little overwhelming – the air and water seemed so [...]