Treehugger: MBDC’s Pick for All-Purpose, Non-Toxic Cleaning

Last Week, we told you that sustainable product and process design consulting firm McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) had awarded Begley’s Best All Purpose Cleaner with Cradle to Cradle Certification, one of the most prestigious sustainable honors out there. So what’s so special about this stuff? Well for starters, it is non-toxic, non-caustic, non-fuming, non-flammable, non-explosive, non-irritating, non-allergenic, and 99 percent biodegradable in seven days. Then, you have the ingredients that sound more like a gourmet party dip: Extracts of pine, palm, de-acidified citrus, maize, fermented sugar cane, and olive seeds.

This sounds good to me. I have been having health problems with all of the commercial cleansers for years mainly due to the stinkum that they put in them. We had been using Ivory liquid, but with their change to a new formulation a couple of years ago, when they added a stinkum to the new and improved version, had to quit because I couldn’t eat or drink from dishes that had been washed with it, unless they had been double or tripple rinsed, and even then most times I could still smell it. So now to see if our local (nearly 20 miles away) health food store carries Begleys Best and try it. Looks like a good for all that needs cleaning product without added stinkum. Cool! Thanks for thinking of the environment (and unknowlingly me) Ed!