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Archive for July, 2007

What would my mother say?

My poor house. It’s become the staging ground for Broom Huggers, and the testing site for cleaning products. It comes easily to us, what with 2 toddlers. But today, for the sake of science, I smeared fresh cherries all over my white laminate counter tops. And then (start ominous music) let it dry. (As an [...]

Horizon organic giveaway!

This is one of the best giveaways I’ve seen in Bloggityville! Over at 5 Minutes for Mom they’re giving away $300 worth of Horizon organic milk! (Have you ever tasted Horizon organic milk? I warn you, you can’t just drink one glass.)

If you’re struggling with questions about whether or not to switch to organic [...]

Baby shampoos? Dangerous?

You bet! I found a report in the Parenting magazine that showed up in my mailbox today about I,4-dioxane. This is a probable human carcinogen, and it’s in my kids’ shampoo! In fact, I went to Skin Deep, where you can check your personal use products (cosmetics, soaps, lotions, etc.) for toxicity information and [...]

Lead in your lunch box?

School shopping time is just around the corner. We’ll all be heading out the shops to buy pencil boxes, glue sticks, new shoes, and … cha-ching! … lunch boxes too. But as it turns out, the vinyl in many lunchboxes contains lead. Many lunchboxes use vinyl either on the inside or the outside, and a [...]

Coming Next Week

Next week will be a big week here at Broom Huggers – thanks to all the negative attention bottled water has been given (see here and here), we’ll be giving away TWO SIGG reusable bottles. As featured on Oprah, Time, Elle, and over a dozen other magazines, these bottles are cool and highly durable.Broom [...]

Works For Me Wednesday: frugal bowl cleaner

Truth be told, toilet bowl cleaners are nothing more than marketing genius. Those porcelain thrones get special attention due to the special nature of the ‘nature’ that happens there. Companies have played on our sensibilities (and sense of smell…) long enough.
What they’re really selling is: a fun shaped bottle; chemicals to alter the way your [...]

Refreshing surprise

After 9 long hours on the road coming home from Florida, I was greeted by a gratifyingly heavy white box with the familiar red and blue of Priority Mail. It was sitting on the front doorstep, welcoming me home in all it’s simplicity. The moment I saw it my heart soared – I knew perfectly [...]

We’re baaack . . .

Thanks for hanging in with us while we had a hurricane of big, gigantic, frustrating website-destroying hosting issues a few minor technical setbacks. Broomhuggers.com is back for good, settled well into its new web host, and we’ve got all our kinks out of our system.
And thank you ever so much to our good friend Stuart, [...]

Make time for thyme

Thyme is used in worldwide cuisine for its earthy, aromatic, and slightly nutty flavor. No self-respecting cook would make Thanksgiving stuffing without it (or its most appropriate friend, sage). But did you know that it has a host of medicinal uses too? Historically, thyme has been used as a disinfectant, as well as an immune [...]

One small step for coffee drinkers

If you’re looking for a simple step toward sustainability, your coffee could very well do it for you. Go for the eco-trifecta: organic, shade-grown, and fair trade (doesn’t that just sound nice?). Organic ensures that your coffee is free of pesticides – good for you, good for the planet. Shade-grown beans mature more slowly [...]