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Health First Roadmap Preliminary Review - Category 2: Chemicals Assessment
The third blog in our series, we highlight our companies preliminary performance on the Second Category of the Health First Roadmap: Chemicals Assessment.
Health First Roadmap Preliminary Review - Category 1: Chemicals Management
The second in our series, we highlight our companies current state performance on the first Category of the Health First Roadmap: Chemicals Management.
Health First Roadmap - Preliminary Review
We're sharing the results of our self-assessment on the Health First Roadmap.
Meliora Cleaning Products is Adopting the Health First Roadmap
Meliora Cleaning Products is adopting the Health First Roadmap. Developed by Women's Voices for the Earth, this step-by-step guide will help us assess and improve our ingredient screening and reporting process. Follow us on this journey as we report out how we're doing and what we've learned.
Baking Soda: Where does ours come from?
Baking Soda (sodium bicarbonate, NAHCO3) is one of the key ingredients of our Laundry Powder. The most common source of the baking soda in the US is the Green River Basin in Wyoming, where trona ore is mined and refined into baking soda (aluminum-free, as it's always been). Since we started nearly 5 years ago, this is where our baking soda came from. We have started a shift to a different, still US-based, source. In Colorado, baking soda comes from nahcolite, NaHCO3, which is extracted from the ground via mining or water extraction. Nothing about our baking soda's chemical make-up, or its performance...