Mommy Goes Green

I purposely don’t buy clothing that needs to be dry cleaned but sometimes, you just need a dry cleaner. I admit I use the dry cleaner closest to my house (and the least expensive).  They are definitely not eco-friendly.  Every time I walk in there, I cringe from the awful smell.  If I can avoid it, I don’t take my kids with me.  It’s that bad.

The leading dry cleaning chemical, percholorethylene, is still used by 90% of dry cleaners. In 1996, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studied workers at dry cleaners.   In the overall group, those who worked for five years or more with percolorethylene had a higher risk of bladder, esophageal, and cervical cancer, although most of these workers also had exposure to other solvents.

I no longer have an excuse to use the closest dry cleaner.  Through NoDryClean.com, I found an eco-friendly dry cleaner a mile from house. 1 mile.  This great database not only tells you how far the nearest eco-friendly cleaner is but it will also tell you what kind of cleaning the dry cleaner does like silicone cleaning, wet cleaning or carbon dioxide cleaning.

If you are an Android user, you can download their free app and for you iPhone users – there’s one coming soon!

Do you use a dry cleaner?  Are they eco-friendly?  If so, do you find your garments to be just as clean as traditional dry cleaning methods?

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