If You Care Products

If You Care is a line of kitchen related products designed to offer European quality and eco-friendly characteristics to consumers.  The line includes a wide range of items such as recycled aluminum foil, unbleached coffee filters, natural baking sheets, parchment paper,  wax paper, cheesecloth and other baking and kitchen items.

If You Care is designed to offer a practical yet high quality alternative to the disposable products many Americans use daily.  By switching to If You Care 100% post-consumer recycled aluminum foil consumers can make a big environmental difference.  The recycled foil requires only 5% of the energy to produce compared to regular aluminum foil.  The foil uses 100% post consumer recycled aluminum and can be recycled over and over again.

If You Care's wax paper is made using soybean wax is 100% biodegradable, free of toxins and landfill safe. 

We tested a number of If You Care products and found them to be overall highly effective and of superior quality.  Their natural baking paper sheets are a real winner.  Made with natural silicone, not chemically treated with chrome-bearing Quilon.  The sheets are 12.5x16 and are unbleached.  They come in boxes of 24 sheets and are made in Finland.

If you are looking for a more environmentally friendly option for many of the day-to-day kitchen tasks If You Care's product line is definately worth a look.  The products are available at Whole Foods Market and many grocery and speciality stores across the country.  Amazon.com sells a number of If You Care products in bulk as well, all with free shipping.

Method Opens in SoHo

San Francisco-based Method setup a pop-up shop this week in New York's SoHo district. The new temporary storefront is the latest in the company's Detox Your Home traveling tour focused on helping consumers detox their homes.

Method will be in their SoHo digs through June 7th. Their new shop features many of their products as well as product experts, aroma stations and even a “dirty little secret” cleaning confessional.

The company is also offering a “toxic turn-in” where people can drop off their old cleaning products and Method will dispose of them properly and reward people with a free Method product.

Method's Soho shop will play host a number of private parties which will focus on educating and inspiring guests to live more sustainable lives.  Events will include eco-craft parties hosted by green living expert Danny Seo.

Method's Detox Your Home New York is located at 550 Broadway between Prince and Spring streets.

Timberland Recycled Ad Banner Eco Tote Bag

Last month Timberland released an eco-friendly tote bag made from its own recycled advertisement banners. The new limited edition bag is available at Timberland stores for $25.

The bags are made from billboard advertisements for Timberland's new Earth Keepers shoe line which was launched nationally in October. The banners were part of ad campaigns in Boston and our home city, Providence.

The Timberland eco-tote bags are refreshingly simple made from the recycled banners and natural canvas material for the handles. They remind us of the bags Freitag did for the Tate Modern also made from old banners.

These bags are neat an everyone of them is unique which also adds a element of coolness to them.

The bags are very well made, and because of their material are waterproof and highly durable.  Perfect for an all around tote or grocery bag these Timberland totes are quite spacious.

Its always nice to see something cool like this from a company like Timberland.  For $25 these bags are a good buy and because of their limited production and one of a kind nature they offer consumers something others won't have.