Organic cloth.

After reading "Home safe home" by the safe home guru, Debra Lynn Dadd, I started studying labels in tshirts and pants before buying new clothes. As far as possible, I have been trying to avoid blends, polyester and trying to buy clothes made of 100% cotton with natural dyes. And this is one such experiment: 100% organic cotton tshirt (i,e cotton grown without the use of herbicides, pesticides or synthetic fertilizers) from the mall. It's soft to the touch and really light, remains to be seen how much of it's softness it will maintain after a machine wash :)

Non-toxic cutting boards.

I have been looking online and in magazines/books to select a nice cutting board that would be non-toxic, environmentally friendly and fairly uncomplicated to maintain. The first thing I did was eliminate plastic cutting boards, I bought a couple of wooden cutting boards from walmart. Then I started reading more about wooden cutting boards and realized the story didn't just end with eliminating plastic. Apparently, the glue used to make wooden cutting boards is formaldehyde-based (try browsing through my favorite website, EWG and look for formaldehyde glues or just google and you will find enough reasons not to buy these boards). Finally selected this nice bamboo cutting board from Totally Bamboo made with food-safe non-formaldehyde glues and free of stains and paints.


I saw a few epicurean cutting surfaces that are supposed to be non-toxic too, at Bed, Bath & Beyond, looks promising...