The first ingredient in most cleaning products is water. In some cases, water makes up more than 90% of household cleaners, like detergent, floor cleaner, and shampoo. By selling cleaners without all that water and distilling them to just their active ingredients, perhaps people will use less plastic. That’s the idea behind a growing environmental push to sell more waterless products.
The environmental push to remove water from cleaning products
Credits
Guest:
- Alden Wicker - author of “To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back”