Re: Method cleaning products at Target

[Guest guest]

Not too bad. They certainly talk about the right things on the FAQ on

their website. Here's the only thing that bothered me: They don't

completely list their ingredients, making the following claim as to why:

" method uses unique proprietary cleaning formulas, and for intellectual

property reasons we do not give out the specific names of the chemicals we

use. "

Any reason for not telling you every ingredient raises a red flag with

me. Maybe they'd tell you if you called them on the phone. They certainly

seem to be trying to do the right thing with their products.

Terri

At 08:00 PM 9/20/2004, you wrote:

>Has anyone looked at the new " Method " brand cleaning products at

>Target? The website is www.methodhome.com. I don't know much about

>cleaning products except that most are not good for us. I've been

>wanting to change to something safer for a while but we don't have a

>place near us that sells much of it. I can't clean the bathroom as

>it gives me asthma attacks (which I otherwise don't experience) even

>with the fan running. Only good thing about that is that my husband

>has been doing it for over 5 years!

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>I appreciate anyone's thoughts on this new product!

>Becky

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[Guest guest]

Becky,

I haven't seen Method in our local Target (but I haven't really

looked either). If you find out about any particular chemicals please

post. I will try to call as well.

Mrs. Meyer's is another brand of house cleaning products our natural

food store carries. I haven't used them though. They sell in a

variety of stores (like Cracker Barrel in some areas). There is a

store locator on the home page so you can see if there are any stores

in your area.

http://www.mrsmeyers.com/

I really like the Aubrey's line too.

I have a very hard time with the smells in many products and get

headaches/dizzy. When I tried a bottle of one of those 'orange'

cleaners, I squirted twice and then the boys and I made a bee-line

out of the house because it smelled so strong. Maybe the idea is the

product cleans by knocking the germs out cold with the smell.

.

[Guest guest]

I've been using these for a while now, and slowly converting all my products

over to the Method products. They are well priced compared to other

" natural " cleaning products.

From their website I found this:

" BIODEGRADABLE

At method, we want to rid the world of dirty. And by " dirty, " we don't mean

just the brown stuff. We mean poisonous chemicals that pollute our water and

air. So our formulas contain only biodegradable ingredients, derived from

natural materials like soy, coconut, and palm oils. Mmm, coconut. "

So maybe a soy problem?

In fact I just washed some dishes this morning with their cucumber dishsoap

and I can still smell it on my hands, yummy!

Cayce

Independent Sales Consultant of

Big Yellow Box by Crayola R

Discover Your Imagination

www.DiscoverYourImagination.com

Subject: Re: " Method " cleaning products at Target

Not too bad. They certainly talk about the right things on the FAQ on their

website. Here's the only thing that bothered me: They don't completely

list their ingredients, making the following claim as to why:

" method uses unique proprietary cleaning formulas, and for intellectual

property reasons we do not give out the specific names of the chemicals we

use. "

Any reason for not telling you every ingredient raises a red flag with me.

Maybe they'd tell you if you called them on the phone. They certainly seem

to be trying to do the right thing with their products.

Terri

At 08:00 PM 9/20/2004, you wrote:

>Has anyone looked at the new " Method " brand cleaning products at

>Target? The website is www.methodhome.com. I don't know much about

>cleaning products except that most are not good for us. I've been

>wanting to change to something safer for a while but we don't have a

>place near us that sells much of it. I can't clean the bathroom as it

>gives me asthma attacks (which I otherwise don't experience) even with

>the fan running. Only good thing about that is that my husband has

>been doing it for over 5 years!

>

>I appreciate anyone's thoughts on this new product!

>Becky

>

[Guest guest]

Method has been slowly coming in for 1-2 months now. I've seen them

in their ads every couple weeks. I just picked up the dishwasher

packs as they say no phosphates, no chemical residues and no bleach

but that's the only information they give on them. I will try e-

mailing the company and see what response I get.

Thank you for the link to Mrs. Meyer's. I found a Whole Foods in St.

that I didn't know about! I will check out Mrs. Meyer's as it

showed as being carried in two local stores.

I just checked out Aubrey's store locator and that's being carried in

a local store as well so I will have to check it out.

Thank you so much!! And thank you to everyone else who responded as

well!

Becky

> Becky,

>

> I haven't seen Method in our local Target (but I haven't really

> looked either). If you find out about any particular chemicals

please

> post. I will try to call as well.

>

> Mrs. Meyer's is another brand of house cleaning products our

natural

> food store carries. I haven't used them though. They sell in a

> variety of stores (like Cracker Barrel in some areas). There is a

> store locator on the home page so you can see if there are any

stores

> in your area.

>

> http://www.mrsmeyers.com/

>

> I really like the Aubrey's line too.

>

> I have a very hard time with the smells in many products and get

> headaches/dizzy. When I tried a bottle of one of those 'orange'

> cleaners, I squirted twice and then the boys and I made a bee-line

> out of the house because it smelled so strong. Maybe the idea is

the

> product cleans by knocking the germs out cold with the smell.

>

> .