Here is a really nice post from St. Louis At Home Magazine Blog. Makes us proud!
http://stlmagblogs.typepad.com/secretary_of_the_interior/2010/02/better-life-im-living-it.html
Check out the below article in the St. Louis Business Journal, which features our co-founder and mad-skilled scientist Kevin Tibbs as he discusses BETTER LIFE’s green efforts
It’s probably cold outside and your house is sealed up tight. You’re cozy and warm, the fire is glowing, and you’ll soon be welcoming friends and relatives into your home for the holidays. You’ve probably also been doing some cleaning to get ready. If you have, you may have some unwanted visitors – VOCs (and we don’t mean Very Obnoxious Children!). We are talking about Volatile Organic Compounds. These are the nasty chemicals things that are found inside conventional cleaning products that most people are using to clean their home for the holidays.
VOCs are a major source of respiratory problems and trigger neurological reactions (headaches, nausea, dizziness), to name just a few. In fact, the EPA has found that the quality of the air inside your home can be 2 1/2 times as bad as the air outside! When you spray a conventional cleaner in your home, your release a fine mist of chemicals that is spread through the air. Worse yet, these chemicals settle onto household surfaces where they can remain for months waiting to be ingested by your kids and pets. It is hard to believe but your home may be worse after the cleaning than before. If you have not seen our video which illustrates what other conventional and “natural” floor cleaners do to a gerbera daisy, watch the video below (it’s such a vivid illustration of the safety of BETTER LIFE that we have been accused of cheating — which we did not!)
At BETTER LIFE, our products contain no VOCs. In fact, our products are completely plant based and contain no chemical ingredients at all. Safe for you and your family and friends.
Think BETTER LIFE doesn’t work as well as conventional cleaners? Not so. If you haven’t seen this, please watch how BETTER LIFE actually removes more bacteria than conventional chemical disinfectants.
Give your family and your guests the gift of clean. Get the BETTER LIFE Starter Kit. Everything you need to make your home clean and safe – now and forever.
If you are looking for a unique and thoughtful gift for a loved one or yourself, order now and we’ll have our starter kit on the doorstep by 12/25 (free delivery)!

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Happy Holidays from the BETTER LIFE famiy!
BETTER LIFE was informed that it is a finalist for the St. Louis Business Journal’s Heroes of the Planet award. BETTER LIFE’s green and safe household cleaning products are nominated for the Products award category.
Winners will be announced Thursday 10/29. Thanks to all who nominated us.
We placed gerbera daisies in our Simply Floored! green floor cleaner and then did the same with another “green” competitor and a conventional counterpart.
We then did some time lapse photography. Check out the results in this video. Let us know what you think.
We are looking forward to participating in both the Taste of St. Louis and the Best of Missouri Market this Fall weekend. Both events are top notch and a ton of fun.
BETTER LIFE is a sponsor of the Taste and will be faithfully serving as the clean-up crew after the Top Chef competition, including the headlining event with Hubert Keller! We’ll also be selling our products, so come by and see us. Mike Kociela, one of the Taste’s organizers, is a true green visionary — he is well on his way to making Taste St. Louis the greenest large scale event in the country (no kidding). We appreciate the support Mike has shown for BETTER LIFE and hope everyone can come join in the fun at the event.
While on the topic of green visionaries, the Missouri Botanical Gardens has been at the forefront of the green movement for 150 years. Best of Missouri Market is an annual favorite put on by an amazing organization. The name says it all, and of course BETTER LIFE fits the bill perfectly, along with some other great artisans, winemakers, and one of our favorites Gooey Louie. We’ll be selling special starter kits at the event.
If you make it to one of these great events, be sure to stop by and say hello!