Nantucket_Spider

Nantucket Footprint is our way to do right by the environment without compromising on people-friendly ingredients. Those of us who care about our household health and the greater environment have often struggled to find products that are truly eco friendly and safe. Words like “green”, “safe” and “eco-friendly” have been overused and often abused by companies determined to wear the “green” mantle without doing the work or making the changes to formulations that would actually make products less toxic or have a lower environmental impact. Sometimes the changes simply involve the packaging colors – clear, brown or white plastic and plastic-lined packages that signal that the contents are less toxic than alternatives. But we all know that substance matters.

We decided to make our own line of cleaning products because for us, none of the existing options ticked enough of the important boxes: many products we tried were heavy on artificial perfumes or fragrances or contained questionable ingredients, including some banned in other countries. Many were weak on ingredient disclosure and used vague, general language or had no ingredient disclosure at all. Even the concentrated versions of these products were packaged in single use, often heavy and bulky plastic. We noticed that most of the “green” products contain the toxic preservatives methylisothiazolinone and benzisothiazolinone. Other products with “cleaner ingredients” smelled unpleasant and didn’t work well at all– they tended to smear windows, leave streaks and were ineffective at cutting grease. Through trial, error and lots of research we have come up with our own formulations delivered in a truly eco-friendly, compact and fully biodegradable format. We did our best to create products that do tick all of the boxes - Safe and eco-friendly while managing to still be highly effective