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Refillable liquid hand soap is one of the best green bathroom and kitchen steps you can take. Easy too. If you haven’t jumped on the hand soap pump train yet, I’m going to make it even easier for you. After the jump are 23 great hand soap pump options.

This week we’ve been auditing our bathtub and shower. So far, we’ve looked at basic adjustments you can make to your tub and shower, and your personal water habits in the bathroom. Today let’s look at what sort of products you’ve got sitting in your tub.
Here are some likely items:

Soap
Shampoo – conditioner
Loofah or sponge
Face cleaner
Bath toys
Bubble bath
Razor
Shaving cream (often in those pesky aerosol cans)
Shower caddy

Each of the items above represents an item I could write a lot about. Since this is a blog, not a book, we’ll look at some quick facts and solutions. Later on, at some point on …read more

We could do an entire bathroom audit this week, but that would be a lot of work. Let’s look at the different parts of the bathroom over the next few weeks. This week, we’ll start with the bathtub and shower.
Now when we do a green bathtub / shower audit, we’ll need to look at some different items. Following are the things we’ll be concentrating on.

The actual tub or shower.
The products you have sitting on your tub – shampoo, soap, sponges, etc.
Water use.
Cleaning the tub.

These are the types of issues you need to consider if you want to complete a true …read more