for a few months now and it does a fabulous job on most surfaces. We've even used it on our floors a few times since we bought the economy sized value pack from Sam's Club. But how green is it? I recently stumbled across the GoodGuide.com that sizes up companies and products based on three factors of Health, Environment, and Society with their own rating system in order to help folks find safer, healthier, green products. So I headed over to the GoodGuide to find out what they thought of the Green Works cleaner.5.6 out of 10 from the GoodGuide! OUCH! And their worst rating was on the environmental impact of the product! Contributing to global warming, toxic waste, and poor energy management (according to the GoodGuide) How is that very green? Sorry Green Works, that's an easy flunk in my book for being eco friendly.
Flash forward a few weeks later a friend of mine shares a great video called A Wake-Up Story by a non-profit Healthy Child Healthy World that really resonated with a lot of people I know who have children.
After seeing the video I visited their website to learn more information about them when I discovered an advertisement that led me to the ActiveIon website.
Once there I clicked on the box with the photo of Bill Nye the Science Guy and watched the 9 minute video. I wasn't really ready to believe this the 'wonders' of this technology until I could see it in action. How do I get my hands on one? Where can I see a demonstration?
Well, lucky me! It just so happened that because of my job, I'd be going to the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, California. One of the biggest shows of the year for this industry and lo and behold, who do I see as an exhibitor? Ding! Ding! (sung in my best opera lady voice) AaaaaactiveIoooooooon!
The day of the expo I was on high alert for their booth. When I finally arrived I wasn't greeted by anyone from the company at first. They all seemed to be giving demonstrations. A very nice lady who owned her own green cleaning business in Oregon was asked by ActiveIon to come down to the show and talk to people about the product. This was my first contact with ActiveIon. Perfect! I'd love to talk to someone who could answer some real cleaning questions! After a quick demonstration with a drizzle of olive oil on a sheet of stainless steal (which I must show later) was a very powerful visual that showed how the water really acts as a cleaning agent. "What about the really tough jobs," I asked. "Well, it's not a miracle worker. There are just those occasions when your best spray solution you have just wont do the job. That's when we incorporate some baking soda into the mix to act as a soft abrasive for sinks or tile." That seemed logical enough. Plus if all I needed was baking soda, that would be an overall much healthier way to clean.
So at the end of our conversation I managed to find myself pulling my credit card out of my wallet to purchase an Activeion AI1004 Ironator HOM
. OOHH AHHH! It's still painful just thinking about it! $160 bucks! But by some mystical force....I just couldn't say no to this. I was still skeptical, but there was so much to gain if it worked.
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