Walmart slave labor takes away USA jobs

<font face=”Arial”>US consumers continue to fund China’s military modernization, even as they erode their own economy and employment at home. Even worse, Wal-Mart shoppers are supporting forced labor camps where the healthiest inmates are executed for “organ harvesting”. Wal-Mart also buys heavily from slave labor manufacturing zones, where women workers are typically paid 3 cents …

USA Textiles – Once Upon a Time

U.S. textile plants are often located in small rural communities in the Southeast and often represent the major source of employment and taxes for many towns and cities. When a textile mill closes, the entire community feels the ramifications, with local businesses, churches and government being hurt. The industry is a primary employer of women …

We gonna rock down to Eco -Avenue

Just a familiar 80’s song with an eco-twist… and without the big hair. We’re proud to announce our new eco line of Home Textiles and Apparel will soon be called “EcoAveUSA”. Previous to this, you may have goods with our “Tom’s Greenthumb” label, which we’ve produced for a few years now. The thing is, we …

How Safe Is Your Mattress?

We don’t use PBDE’s or other chemicals, so. . . you may wonder how we can offer these chemical-free mattresses without comprising fire safety, and that’s definitely something you need to consider when purchasing a mattress free of chemical flame retardants. We can’t speak for every natural mattress manufacturer, but in our case, we’ve carefully …

Welcome to our “New” Blog!

We now have this “new” blog up and running. Hope you like it. We’ll try to move our archives of “letters” and “tidbits” over to this site a little at a time. But for now, this is the new place we’ll be posting news, articles, and random ramblings!

Get Naked

It’s official. We’ve finally decided on a name for our soap and body care line: Naked Spa…. Ingredients so natural they may as well be naked. We use the bare essentials for the various items. Our bar soaps are USDA certified organic. Yippee! And the only preservative is natural rosemary. Our hemp clay mask and …

Chemical warfare in our clothes?

Did you know that chemicals and technologies developed for warfare during World War I and II, were later incorporated into pesticides for our farms? Your skin BREATHES — and is in contact with clothing, which is why some people suffer adverse reactions to chemically treated fibers. Starting with the cultivation through to the finished fabric, …

How to make a bed

Europeans are often shocked to see a bed made-up first thing in the morning. It is standard practice in Western Europe to let the bed *breathe* in the morning. The comforter is turned back to allow body moisture and odors to escape from the mattress via air circulation.