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Natura Eco-Friendly Products

I very recently came across some cool eco-friendly products available at Home Hardware stores (Canada). It was actually my wife who told me about them after hearing an ad on the radio. (she definitely earned herself some eco brownie points with that one!)

Natura’s tea tree oil all-purpose cleaner has actually been a favourite of ours for some time now, but the timing of their two newest products couldn’t have been much better!

One of our lingering bad habits is the frequent use of paper towels. At one point I thought I had a solution in making rags out of old T-shirts, but sadly my skimpy rags just didn’t cut it in the end. Needless to say, when I learned about the Natura “Wonder Cloth” and it’s “8 layers of soft, supple, super absorbent cleaning power”, I was pretty excited!
:lol:

The wonder cloth is apparently made from 100% natural wood fibres (a little odd, but interesting nevertheless), and resists bacterial growth, thus making it (hopefully) an ideal multi-use cloth. It feels pretty stiff straight out of the package, but I’m hopeful it will mellow out a little with some use!

The other new product is the Natura static-free, re-usable dryer sheets. It’s funny, I’ve recently been looking at our big ol’ box of Bounce sheets wondering if there was some better alternative out there – I’m certainly glad to know there is!

Each box contains 2 re-usable sheets and claims they are good for more than 500 loads. I’m not sure if that is 500 each or combined, but either way this is not only more eco-friendly but also quite a bit cheaper. The box cost $12.95, so even if it was only good for 500 loads total, thats 5X more than the 100-sheets of Bounce (which probably cost $4 or $5).

Also, one other thing worthy of mention – it looks as though some money is donated to the Tree Canada Foundation for any Natura products (or at least the Wonder Cloth) purchased.

So, if you happen to live in Canada be sure to check out Natura products the next time you are at your local Home Hardware. Unfortunately I don’t think they are available anywhere else, but I imagine there must be similar products out there.

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Written by Bentley on April 2nd, 2007 with 10 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com bernice
#1. August 21st, 2007, at 11:44 PM.

Where can can your Natura wonder cloth’s be purchased.
thanks
Bernice

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#2. August 22nd, 2007, at 4:19 AM.

Hi Bernice!
Natura wonder clothes (and other Natura eco products) can be purchase at any Home Hardware location.

B.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Dianne
#3. October 14th, 2007, at 6:54 PM.

Is there anyplace that you can buy Natura cleaning products in bulk?? We have a cleaning business and we love the Natura cleaning products but it is quite expensive to buy the small quantities from Home Hardware. Thank you kindly.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Bentley
#4. October 15th, 2007, at 4:18 PM.

Hi Dianne,
I would definitely get in touch with HH to see if they will sell in bulk. I don’t know of any place where you can purchase large quantities at a discount.

B.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kim
#5. February 3rd, 2008, at 12:39 AM.

Hi there: I also use Natura Cleaner in my home. I do have concerns that I can’t find the ingredients of this cleaner other than it contains tea tree oil. There is obviously more in it than that and I would like to know what. Deos anyone know where we can find out what else is in it?? thanks.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com judith lilja
#6. February 10th, 2008, at 2:34 PM.

I would like to purchase natura cloths on line. Where can I do this? I don’t live near a home hardware.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Bentley
#7. February 11th, 2008, at 12:18 PM.

Hi Judith,
Unfortunately they don’t seem to sell them online (they should – a lot of people would buy them).
Someone told me about another company selling a similar product:
http://www.mabu.com/mabucloth.html

These can be purchased here:
http://www.kokogm.com/Green_Market/SpongesScrubbers.html

Don’t know if there are any Canadian merchants who sell those cloths but it might be worth looking into.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Bentley
#8. February 11th, 2008, at 12:19 PM.

Hi Kim,
I’d recommend getting in touch with Home Hardware to find out about the ingredients.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Pat Moore
#9. September 27th, 2010, at 2:36 AM.

Our local (Duncan, BC) Home Hardware did not have any Natura products on display. I didn’t have an opportunity to make any enquiries at the store about their availablity.

I love The Wonder Cloth and was wondering if it is available elsewhere?

Pat

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Jim Atkinson
#10. March 1st, 2011, at 9:04 PM.

The electric clothes dryer is the most inefficient appliance in the home. It heats up air to 140 degrees, dries the clothes and then exhausts that heat outside.

Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim & Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, “What a waste of heat!”

So, they started experimenting with different products and were not satisfied with any of them. They decided to develop their own product. They named it, Dryernet; It filters the air coming out of the dryer so well, you can hardly smell anything. It filters down to .5 microns and removes all the contaminants. Jim’s physician says it filters down to the bacteria level.

The original thought was to save on heat to cut expenses but they have discovered added benefits to the product. It adds much needed moisture in the winter, you don’t have to have a humidifier going since the Dryernet adds moisture. With the added moisture, Sandy doesn’t have to use skin moisturizer. It makes it easier to breathe at night cutting down on that dry mouth feeling in the morning. It cuts down on static electricity.

They found out that if your dryervent is longer than 10 feet, the dryer dries the clothes faster due to increased airflow. So that saves energy too. Overall, Jim and Sandy saved about $20.00 a month on their heating bill. If you use your dryer more than 4 times a week, you’ll save more. Many house fires are caused by a clogged dryer vent, not with the Dryernet!

How often does a “Green” product pay for itself in a month and a half? If ten percent of the electric dryers used the dryernet, over 1 Billion dollars in energy use would be saved, each year.

We have been featured on Fox news in St. Louis, KOLR-TV in Springfield, MO and KOMU in Columbia, MO.
For more information on the Dryernet, go to dryernet.com Jim Atkinson, 636-388-2808

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