20 Tips for Creating Safer Havens: Tips 16 – 20 Below are the last five tips in our Top 20 ways to rid your home of chemicals and create a safer haven. We hope that you have found them helpful and are enjoying creating Chemical-Free Zones along with us! If you missed tips 1-15, here […]
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More Tips for Creating Safer Havens Social Media Badges: Show everyone your commitment to making your Home a Chemical-Free Zone by printing our Tags and use our social media badges to spread the word online! Post them on your Facebook page, your blog, or use them as your avatar anywhere to let everyone know that […]
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More Tips for Creating Safer Havens In honor of our 20th global anniversary, last week we shared the first five of our Top 20 tips for ridding your home of chemicals and creating safer havens. Below are the next five tips in our series. Don’t forget to check back next week for Tips 11 – […]
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Tips for Creating Safer Havens Have you heard? Norwex officially turns 20 this year! In honor of two decades of improving quality of life by radically reducing the use of chemicals in personal care, we’re offering up our Top 20 Tips for Creating Safer Havens. Use these first five to get started, and check back […]
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The U.S. holiday of Memorial Day is approaching—a time to honor and remember loved ones, especially those who have served in the military. A great way to “Live Green” while participating in this holiday is to plant a memorial tree! A tree can be a natural, “living memorial” that will honor memories of a loved […]
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An increasing number of products today are described as “eco-friendly” and biodegradable. However, not all of them live up to the environmentally friendly label. Even those that do make the grade as certified biodegradable or compostable don’t end up where they should. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Organic materials—comprised of yard trimmings, […]
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During the month of February, Norwex is sharing the love! One of the ways we are doing this is through spreading awareness of the dangers of chemicals and providing some ways we can reduce their use in our lives. At Norwex, we know that the more we increase awareness, the more we can improve quality […]
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“One Less” – Conserving Paper In continuing with my “One Less” theme, this month I address paper! While paper is not the first thing that comes to my mind (nor, probably, yours) when considering ways to save resources, paper packs a tremendous environmental wallop. The paper industry is considered the third most polluting of all […]
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Less Toxic Living Happy New Year! With the New Year comes a new set of resolutions to make either our lives or the lives of those around us better. At Norwex, our resolution is to continue creating a better quality of life for everyone, and what better time than now to help you start the […]
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How to Host an Eco-Friendly New Year’s Party 2013 is drawing to a close, and what better way to ring in 2014 than with an eco-friendly New Year’s party? Start your next year of purposeful living with a celebration that lives up to the lifestyle you support. A New Year’s party is just like any […]
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