Lard, Rennet, Suet, and Tallow

What’s in your Personal Care Products
And Around Your Home?

Lard and leaf lard:
Pig intestines or Fatty tissue from Pigs/hogs, either processed or left unprocessed. Manteca is the Spanish for lard/lard butter.

Lard can be in lipstick, lotion (as emulsifiers), and shaving cream. And an almost guarantee, lard is in your commercial bar soaps! In candles and hidden in margarine there’s lard. Soap does not need to contain lard, which was a ranchers by-product in their own ranch/farm animal slaughter. However, a few products like Vasoline should be avoided as well. Vasoline is petroleum, which is neither lard nor good for the earth!

Substitutions for lard:
Vegetable fat, fruit and nut wax.
Almond, Cocoa butter (an evergreen tropical plant), coconut, cotton seed oil, jojoba, palm seed and palm fruit oil, peanut, sesame, and soy (soybean) oil.
If you are not Vegan: beeswax.



Rennet and Rennin:
Usually from calves/young cows.
Obtained from the lining of slaughtered animal’s stomach. Found in nearly all cheese (unless specifically listed as being Rennet-less and “animal friendly”) and coagulated dairy food products.

Available substitutions:
microbial (non-animal) agents, vegetable rennet, lemon juice, and bacteria culture (like acidophilus, the friendly bacteria occurring in natural yogurt and non-dairy herbal remedies).

Suet:
Raw beef or mutton fat.
Suet can be found as an ingredient in Bird Food/Animal Blocks, cheaper margarine, and possibly still in some medicinal ointments.

Numerous choices available over suet!

Tallow/Tallowate/Stearic Acid
Derived from the slaughter of Cattle, Horse, Sheep, and Pigs (though the later is rarely labeled due to Religious groups disallowing most pig products). Listed or Unlisted/Unreported, tallow may be present in your Animal/Livestock Feed. Tallow is used over wax at times for cheaper candles and crayons. Unlike Suet, tallow does not require refrigeration.

Alternatives:
Japan Tallow (natural fat from Fruit tree produce) and Vegetable Tallow (such as bayberry)



So, why are the fatty tissue areas, which are equally similar in humans and animals, where heavy metals have absorbed and stay, feeding cancer cells among other things, used for human and animal consumption? Why would you wish to pamper yourself with any so-called beauty product containing animal fat, ligament, or organs? Why do companies hide the usage of these hideous ingredients? Monetary reasons must be the only excuse to dump these health hazards into our food, animal care, and cosmetic goods. Yikes!






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METHOD Detergent and Laundering Tips

Stain Removal

and

The Eco-Friendly
METHOD LAUNDRY DETERGENT

METHOD PRODUCTS:
www.methodhome.com

The previous article mentioned, METHOD “People Against Dirty”, is something of profound interest to me.
Today, I will detail the most important product to me,
as I do laundry everyday, throughout the day.


METHOD 3X Concentrated Detergent (Phosphate-free)

“free + clear”

• coconut surfactants (biodegradable)


• corn (plant solvent)


• borate salt


• coconut soap


• plant based glycerin


• purified water


• *fragrant oils (in scented versions)


• (non-animal) enzymes, stain removers


• biodegradable brightening agents


• *less than 0.1% preservative

Alas, I do not yet have a front load washing machine; however, even with this and every top-load machine I have owned/used…
I only require 1 1/2 teaspoons – 1 tablespoon of all METHOD Liquid Laundry Detergent products, for regular clothing or towels!

Please start with less detergent than what is suggested on the METHOD label, adjusting to your laundry’s dirt and oil saturation. Depending on the minerals and other compounds in your personal or town water supply/source, detergent requirements will fluctuate.

Always place LAUNDRY DETERGENT (of any type/brand) in Hot Water, prior to adding any laundry. Then, adjust temperature to type of washing after your detergent has diluted.

Towels will always necessitate the very Hottest of washing water, as you do not wish to cross-contaminate.

Delicates/lingerie/silks
require Cool Water Only.

Hot Water:
Kills germs, shrinks fabric, and can set-in stains. Pre-spot stains with cool water and your natural laundry detergent/natural spot remover, gently scrubbing/brushing fabric and allowing detergent to penetrate into moistened fabric.


Cool Water:
Does not remove mildew, does not remove odor, however will Not shrink fabric. Baking Soda in a pre-wash, can remove odor, prior to your (reg./normal) wash cycle. Again, allow the Baking Soda to dissolve in warm water prior to adding laundry. Soak in washer as needed to remove foul smell, up to an hour. Follow with full wash cycle, then with white Vinegar in rinse (which also removes all soap product residue from even prior laundering)!

My personal recommendations of the METHOD Liquid Laundry Detergents-

• “Free + Clear” (for highly sensitive people)
• “Sweet Water” (for general households)

*METHOD Laundry Products: Recommended/Approved by Front-Load and Eco Washing Machine manufactures




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Lowry and Ryan: METHOD

Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan: Founders of METHOD

www.methodhome.com

People Against Dirty-

the Cruelty-free, Eco Friendly Cleaning Line!

Adam Lowry is a graduate, in Chemical Engineering, from Stanford, whose background includes Product Design and patents in the Automobile Industry.
(bio found: http://soe.stanford.edu/alumni/profile_lowry.html )

Eric Ryan chief brand architect, the guru behind METHOD’s Marketing, previously spent over seven years in the advertising field with consumer goods from Saturn to Gap, and Old Navy. Eric Ryan was named PETA’s “Person Of The Year” in 2006 and dubbed ECO LEADER by Time Magazine! “Style is what gets a customer into a brand, substance is what keeps them there” is a now famous Ryan quote.

Lowry and Ryan are the co-founders of METHOD which they started, long past their high school days together and subsequent to the years separated after college, where they realized corporate greed (from standard companies) and, on the flip side, the total lack of esthetically pleasing and cool marketing that the environmentally sound businesses could never comprehend.

Utilizing their Science and Marketing backgrounds with their distaste for negative, guilt driven, lack-luster “Eco Choices”… METHOD and their Motto “People Against Dirty” were born. Today, these now married Eco Pioneers live in California and continue to reach for not only the heavens yet, have angels on the payroll (as it would seem). High Fashion and Modern Design are attached to METHOD and their Revolution!

METHOD is the 7th fastest growing company in the U.S., and has the fastest business growth in all of California. Over 25,000 Retailers in Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States so far have found that “being GREEN (with METHOD) does mean Chic and even Prosperous”!



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