Featured Cruelty-Free Company: method

While some large companies continue the cruel and outdated practice of testing on animals, hundreds of companies have gone cruelty-free.

With method’s cruelty-free cleaning products, you can clean your house with a clear conscience. In 1999, two friends, Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry, joined forces to create household cleaning products that are not only easy on animals and the environment, but also designed to be pleasing to the eye. When the two founding fellows refer to themselves as the “people against dirty,” they aren’t just referring to the dirty dishes you leave fermenting in the sink or the mud your dog tracks in—to them, it means “the toxic chemicals that make up many household products, it means polluting our land with non-recyclable materials, it means testing products on innocent animals.”

In keeping with this philosophy, all method products are biodegradable, made from natural ingredients, like soy, coconut oil, and palm oil, and packaged to be easily recyclable. Not only that, they’ll get your cleaning task done without being toxic or harmful to you or your animal companions.

Everyone knows that chores can be a bore, but with their clean, modern packaging, affordable prices, and sweet smells, method products make an afternoon of cleaning as fresh and fun as possible. If you’re concentrating on washing your dirty duds, method concentrated detergent and liquid fabric softener can’t be beat. Up to your elbows in dishes? In tempting scents like magnolia, French lavender, pink grapefruit, cucumber, mandarin, and mint, method’s got the soap for you. When you’re ready to fight scum and tackle that tub, arm yourself with method’s lemon-ginger-scented daily shower cleaner and cucumber bathroom-surface cleaner.

The products we’ve highlighted are just a few of method’s masterpieces. There are tons more, like a lemon-ginger all-purpose cleaner, mandarin-grapefruit surface wipes, and magnolia scented dish soap, so get cleaning! Products are available nationwide in all Target stores and Linens ’n Things, as well as some regional stores.

The best way to let companies know that you don’t support products that are made with animal ingredients or are tested on animals is to spend your money on companies, like method, that take the cruelty out of cleaning products.

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