We would like to be a resource for people and projects to help them with the ever increasing need for non toxic living solutions and environmental awearness. We hope you enjoy what we have to offer. Please feel free to email us for any reason to add to or comment on this newsletter.

Thank you - Linda and David Zielski

How green printing can make a good impression

Look around your workplace, and you'll likely find plenty of printed material, from business cards to brochures to books. Printing words and images on paper may seem like one of the more environmentally benign things your company does, but that isn't necessarily the case. If you examine the life cycle of printed matter -- from turning trees into paper through the witch's brew of chemicals involved -- professional printing takes on a decidedly non-green hue.

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Can Your Antiperspirant Cause Alzheimer's Disease?

One of the commonest questions readers have when they get to the topic of deodorants and antiperspirants is whether the aluminum in antiperspirants can increase their risk of Alzheimer's disease. We don't have a definitive answer, but suggestive evidence may change the buying habits of some shoppers.

However, don't stay fixated on Alzheimer's disease as your sole concern. That's because aluminum is clearly a powerful neurotoxin (i.e., toxic to the nervous system), even if its link with Alzheimer's disease is not clear. That alone should raise a warning flag for users of aluminum-containing antiperspirants (as well as aluminum cookware).

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Safe Substitutes at Home: Non-toxic Household Products

Toxic chemicals in the home can be eliminated simply by making thoughtful choices in the supermarket after educating oneself about where the hazards are in common consumer products. How can you determine what toxics you have in your home? Take this "toxics tour."

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EPA to Accept Pesticide Tests on Humans

The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects.

Susan Hazen, the EPA's principal deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, said Monday the new rule for accepting tests won't allow "intentional pesticide dosing studies of children and pregnant women."

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Nature's First Aid Kits and Simple Pure Baby

We have worked all summer and have finally released the baby products and the new Nature's First Aid Kits. Along with this effort comes a new website. We attended the 2005 Natural Products Expo East in Washington this fall and our all natural hemp diaper bag won the new product showcase for personal care items. This diaper bag included our full line of baby products. Please click the link below to view our new site.

www.simplepurebaby.com

Save 15% on All Products this Spring

From now till June, save 15% on all Simple Pure Clean cleaning products, Simple Pure Baby baby products and Nature's First Aid Kits. Just enter in the discount code

202444

When you check out. Here are the links to the sites:

www.simplepureclean.com
www.simplepurebaby.com

Thank you for your continued support.