Green Society: Socialites do their part!

pettyfog · Apr 22, 2007

Eco-Socialites Make Cleaning Green a Priority

“We all want to make our homes the safest place in the world for our families,” she said to a roomful of women with cascading hair and bouclé jackets. “We get global warming, but we don’t think about what we are exposing ourselves to in our homes. We can all watch ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ But what can we actually do to make a difference on Earth Day besides buying a Prius?”

The answer, according to Ms. Barnett, is a line of natural health-care and housecleaning products made by Shaklee, a 47-year-old company based in San Francisco whose cleansers were beloved in the 1970s by the first Earth Day generation, the folks who installed composting toilets.
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And what goes around, comes around..

Still, she has no plans to reduce the family’s significant carbon footprint by, say, selling the Manhattan second home. “I’m not a perfect person,” she said. “I’m not the greenest woman in America.” And there was scant indication that other guests, most of whom, presumably, knew their way up the steps of a private jet, were contemplating major lifestyle cutbacks. Glancing about the room, Ms. Barnett said, “We aren’t all going to move to one-bedroom apartments.”

She would do what she could, she said, pointing to the correlation between commercial cleaners and the toxic residue that sometimes lurks in the tub, forming that grimy bathtub ring. “Basically your kids are bathing in the Love Canal,” she warned, her comments drawing a shudder.
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That ring comes from what you clean the tub with?!!!!!! When I was concerned with it, it was from using bath oils and bubble bath. Perhaps a simple rinse after cleaning would also do the job.

She poured a quarter-teaspoonful of concentrated Basic H2 all-purpose cleaner into a 16-ounce spray bottle of tap water to demonstrate its use. “People are ready to embrace this,” she said, “but we can’t ask them to make a change unless it comes easily.”
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Well... how hard could it be? After all, what are maids for?

If NYT cant address the obvious in a fluff piece, then how much cred....

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