This week’s recap: Nature Clean Laundry Detergent

Charlotte writes:

I love what you are doing here. I too use the Nature Clean products. The dish soap is also great. It doesn’t make as many bubbles as traditional dish soap does but if you feel you need more bubbles use a sponge and it helps with the suds. The Dish washer detergent is great too. The only product that I found that wasn’t as good as the traditional one is the window cleaner and that is only because the natural product required more elbow grease. Keep up the great work. I love seeing what comes next.

Thanks Charlotte! I, too, found that the window cleaner needed a bit more elbow grease than your standard brands. I suppose that’s a welcome sacrifice for a natural window cleaning solution. I did find that the window cleaner smelled wonderful though! Like fresh lemons — but naturally!

The above video will tell you more about Nature Clean Living’s amazing product line, available at Topia Greenstop among other places.

Alright – the laundry experiment has been completed! I washed a load of my clothes with Nature Clean Laundry Detergent and a load of my clothes with a popular orange-bottle’d Mountain Fresh scented brand detergent.  Results?

The other brand – My clothes are clean! No surprise there. I’ve used this brand all my life, so why expect a surprise? My clothes smell like… mountains? I’ve never smelled mountains, but I’m pretty sure they don’t smell like whatever this chemical is… Now, it’s not bad, it’s just clearly a chemical smell.

Nature Clean Laundry Detergent – My clothes are clean! And they smell — like clothes. This might sound odd, but clothes smelling like clothes means that they don’t smell like chemicals — a good thing for a laundry detergent that markets itself as a natural product.

Ingredients: Water, Fatty Polyglycoside (from cornstarch and palm kernel oil), Pure Castile Soap (from soya and canola), Coco-Bentaine (from plant source), Sodium Citrate (salt of citric acid), Cellulose Collides (from cotton and wood), Potassium Sorbate (food grade preservatives)

The detergent doesn’t foam up as much as your standard orange-bottle’d detergent which might fool you into thinking that it’s not very effective (why is it that suds = effective for me? hrmm). But I can assure you, it worked just fine! And, while I do appreciate that it is natural, I’m not quite at the “dark green” level yet — so the big selling point for me? Bulk! It’s available from Topia Greenstop in bulk! You can bring in your own container and fill it up. I’m going to be just like my grandmother; I’ll have countless containers and boxes with masking tape on them labeled ‘laundry detergent’ and ’sugar’ and ‘dried peas’ in my house. I can just see it now.

So, looking for a great, natural alternative to the strong-smelling, chemical-filled laundry detergent you currently use? Try this stuff out! … and be sure to let me know what you think.

I know this’ll be exiting for you — drumroll please! Tonight I’ll be doing my laundry!

But this won’t be just any old laundry session, tonight I’ll be trying out the laundry detergent I got — in bulk — from Topia Greenstop (Clyde at Woodward, Ottawa). The detergent is called Nature Clean and I’m proud to say that it is a Canadian product! (Go Canada!)

Do any of you have any experience with Nature Clean? So far I can tell you that I love the smell of it and I love the fact that if all goes well, I can get it in bulk at Topia. This makes me a happy laundry… doer. Laund…

Laundress.

Stay tuned for the results!