Well, hello and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to

episode 155 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast. On this week's show we are

discussing all things related to your eco-friendly laundry routine.

Now the laundry room is the final frontier, so to speak, in terms of eco-friendly options.

While the kitchen, for example, overflows with zero-way swaps and sustainable alternatives,

laundry products, or at least laundry products over the last two

decades have remained staunchly anti-environmental.

And thanks to the monopolies that CPG companies have,

CPGs being consumer product goods companies have on the market, ethical and eco alternatives to laundry detergent, dryer sheets, and other quote-unquote necessary products are non-existent.

There's also another factor at play here and that is that doing laundry is not at all glamorous, right? If you're like me, you tend to do what you've always done in the laundry room. You buy the same products you've always

bought. Perhaps you're buying the products your mom and dad always bought.

You are executing your routine in the same way you've always executed it day after day, year after year.

And that's because laundry is a mundane,

if not the most mundane household chore.

So why waste the mental energy and changing what is working already, right?

Well, my hope is that today's episode gives you the knowledge, yes, but more importantly the excitement to

change up that routine even if your existing routine is currently working.

Today's show is split into two parts. In part one I

outline for you the best laundry practices from an environmental standpoint

so that you and I can quite literally clean up our laundry

routines once and for all. And then in part two I am bringing you a conversation with Angie and Bernard Tran, the founders behind kind

laundry sheets.

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