Friday, June 25, 2010

Cleaning Wood Cabinets and Floors

GoodGuide has a review of Method Wood for Good Spray. They give it an 8.7 which is a very good rating. They rate it better than alternatives such as Murphy Oil Soap (although they only have a rating for the Murphy Oil Soap Multi Use with Orange Oil) which gets a 5.6 which is decent, but not as good as the Method product. What brings down the Murphy cleaner is it's health 4.0 rating. This is the same rating as Bona and a few others get. Compared to the health rating of 8.7 for Method Wood for Good Spray, these other products score pretty low.

Method also sells a floor cleaner called Method O-Mop Wood for Good Floor Cleaner. It gets a slightly lower GoodGuide health rating of 6.0 which drops it's overall rating to 7.9. What happened? Why did it's health rating drop like that? GoodGuide answers the question by pointing out that O-Mop includes Propylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether. Although it raises a medium level of concern, Method
Ecos, and Seventh Generation all use it in some of their products. And all three of these companies are trying to produce greener products. The lower rated products like the Murphy Oil Soap have a whole list of ingredients that raise a "high level of health concern."

I think I'm ready to switch. What about you?

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