Ask Dr. Pete: On Color Protecting Detergents & Reading Product Labels
01/31/21 Ask Dr. Pete

Ask Dr. Pete: On Color Protecting Detergents & Reading Product Labels

Dr. Pete is back with more helpful knowledge, including how to decipher what’s wrong (or not) with your shampoo’s ingredient list and the chemistry behind how color protecting detergents work. Read on to learn more.
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5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Facemask

Ways to make wearing a non-medical face mask more practical, comfortable, and long-lasting for everyday life. 

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12/31/20 Dirty Collabs

Dirty Collabs: Malin Landaeus, Vintage Seller

A Swedish immigrant with a background in tailoring, fashion and organic textiles, Malin Landaeus opened her namesake vintage store in Brooklyn almost fifteen years ago. We talked to her about why she no longer buys anything new, what makes a good vintage shoe, and how the future of consumerism is in our own hands. 

Ask Dr. Pete: On Sanitizing and Sensitive Skin – Tips & Alternatives

Ask Dr. Pete: On Sanitizing and Sensitive Skin – Tips & Alternatives

Dr. Pete is back with more helpful knowledge: everything you need to know about sanitizing, including but not limited to whether there is such a thing as too much; and answering questions you may have asked yourself recently, such as “do I have eczema or is it just winter?”
How to Wash Activewear and Workout Clothes: A Guide

How to Wash Activewear and Workout Clothes: A Guide

What's the best way to wash activewear? Many of us make the mistake of washing and drying our athletic wear and technical apparel as we do everything else we wear. But activewear is different and requires some specialized cleaning techniques to make them last longer. Read on to learn more. 

7 Ways To Reduce Waste & Produce Less Waste At Home

7 Ways To Reduce Waste & Produce Less Waste At Home

We’ve been trained to look for what’s most convenient, even if that compromises the wellbeing of our planet. Now, in order to conserve, individuals have to create their own systems within the wider system: it’s up to each of us to reduce waste. It comes down to changes in habit.
How To Limit Screen Time for Yourself – Tip & Ideas

How To Limit Screen Time for Yourself – Tip & Ideas

Research on the effects of screen time is ongoing and ever changing. In fact, the term "screen time" itself is already passé. There is plenty we don’t know. But patterns are emerging across everything from personal anecdotes — “if I look at my phone past 11 PM I can’t fall asleep” — to actual studies like this 2019 one from Harvard that explains how our digital devices affect things like sleep and creativity by depriving our brains of boredom and suppressing melatonin secretion.
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12/03/20 Ask Dr. Pete

Ask Dr. Pete: On "Permastank" and Tips for Chronic Spillers

Dr. Pete is back: as a product inventor, innovator, and sustainability expert, he’s the brains behind our Bio Laundry Detergent and was a founding member of The Sustainability Consortium. This month he’s here to help, answering everyday questions for chronic spillers and how to get rid of “permastank,” plus why it happens in the first place. Read on for more. 
Dirty Collabs: Karl Jarvis, Conservation Biologist
12/03/20 Dirty Collabs

Dirty Collabs: Karl Jarvis, Conservation Biologist

A Utah native who has spent the past couple decades researching the effects of man-made roads on local wildlife, Karl Jarvis, PhD., is a conservation biologist and professor based in Southwestern Utah. Curious about his work, we talked to Karl about his research and some of his findings over the years, what he’s working on now, and the role he thinks we each have to play in conserving wildlife wherever we are. 

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A Clean Ingredient Guide for Parents

How to choose safe cleaning products for babies, infants & while nursing (& more).
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Extending the Life of Garments, Fabrics (& Earth)

Easy, earth-friendly ways to make your clothes — and your paycheck — last longer

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How to Create Positive Vibes At Home: 5 Ways

5 simple ways to love the place you live even more Home is where the heart is. Home is also, depending whom you ask, where a lot of other things happen—where the cat rips up the sofa, where the lau...
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How Your Stain Removal Tricks Really Work

Everybody Spills. Learn how to clean it up with science using dirty Lab's cleaning tips and tricks. Click to read more.
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Why We Don't Include 1,4-dioxane in our Laundry Detergent

We made a laundry detergent that’s safe for you and the planet. 1,4-Dioxane is one thing we left out: here’s why. You’re probably not going to find 1,4-Dioxane on a label, but that doesn’t mean it...