I am still doing the thing! Reduce Household plastic by 97% Update

So, I kept doing the thing!...still

Just another update on my project from a few weeks back.

A few weeks ago I showed you guys the cleaning products I had formulated. These is my babies.

My day job is as a formulation chemist and a R&D Technician for a large company. I make, test, formulate, develop, etc household fragrances, candles, cleaning products and more.

On the cleaning chemical side...hardly anything is green and EVERYTHING generates waste. It made me sad.

I started with some prototypes, and you guys showed me a lot of love

I made fragrance and color free cleaning chemicals that were stronger and greener than most chemicals in the stores.

My window, dish, all purpose and degreaser.

I packaged them...shittily

My shitty prototypes brought you guys to the yard and they were like...everyone's better than yours...

Screw it, you guys showed me a BUNCH of encouragement.

I kept on with my shittastic prototypes

I'm still working with packaging at the moment, but that's going to all clear up once my kickstarter funds come through.

I started designing packaging

After getting some legal lockdown I started packaging up my products into envelopes. These tiny ketchup packets of cleaners make a sixteen ounce bottle. You tear open, add two cups or 430g of water to your bottle, or just add the chemical then top it off if you have a correct sized bottle. This is 1.5g of plastic per packet versus the 100+g in a plastic bottle and trigger sprayer. It all comes with your labels, safety data, and a little pair of gloves if you have sensitive skin!

Those guys working on trash traps for the ocean will have a lot easier of a job if we can stop adding to the mess.

I had some more ideas

Biodegradable COMPOSTABLE sponges that don't use bleaching, colors or chemicals to process. Loofah...Love my Loofah.

Neat fact: Did you know they can't recycle trigger sprayers? Too many types of plastic and metal bits to go through the machines. They end up in landfills :< Reuse one. They last forever.

More shitty prototypes and shitty layouts

We tried so hard making things look nice and clean

Finito!

We're almost there. We're working on getting a better plastic for the packets and have it come printed to save money

We sent out some sample kits

People LOVED them. We were thrilled...no more reformulating on my part!

We took pictures.

We got our asses a logo

Look us up on facebook? Keep an eye out for our indiegogo coming soon?

Cat tax?

I put my cat in an owl costume...She enjoyed it.

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