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Review and Giveaway: E-cloth®  

Saturday, July 18, 2009





I've been trying to use less harsh chemicals when cleaning in my effort to Go Green, so when I was approached about trying E-cloths®, I was intrigued as well as excited to try them out.

E-cloth® sent me two packs of E-cloths®: the Kitchen Pack and the Bathroom Pack.



E-cloth® Kitchen Pack
(1) 12.5”x12.5” General Purpose Cloth
(1) 20”x16” Glass & Polishing Cloth

Why E-cloth in lieu of normal kitchen cleaning?
All you need to clean everything in your kitchen better than you ever have.

This pack includes the entire kitchen cleaning supplies you’ll need to clean refrigerators, countertops, windows and more. There really isn’t anything this pack can’t clean remarkably well. The advanced fiber technology penetrates and removes dust, grime, oil, grease and even bacteria with just water! There’s absolutely no use of any harmful household cleaners.

The General Purpose Cloth (Green) is for thick grease and dirt. The Glass & Polishing Cloth (Blue) is for glass, light cleaning and final polishing. (Not for use on electronic screens and delicate lenses.)

Versatile, easier cleaning –excellent on stainless steel, countertops, glass, chrome, granite, marble, tile and wood. And E-cloth’s fiber function makes cleaning faster and easier than normal.

Money-saving cleaning – no paper towels or household chemicals to buy. Saving just one roll of paper towels a week, and $10 a month on chemical cleaners results in a yearly savings of almost $200. E-cloth performance is guaranteed for 300 machine washings.

Healthier cleaning – no harmful chemicals or fumes because E-cloth uses fiber function to clean – not a chemical reaction. E-cloth cleaning is safe for everyone – especially important to allergy and asthma sufferers.

Eco-friendly cleaning
– E-cloth reduces paper towels landfill waste, and pollution that chemicals create.

100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back




E-cloth® Bathroom Pack
(1) 11.5 x 6” Sponge Cloth
(1) 20”x16” Glass & Polishing Cloth

Why E-cloth versus ordinary bathroom cleaning?
It’s the smartest way to clean because you save money, time and your health.

Say “Hello” to how you’ll clean tubs, showers, sinks, vanities, faucets, tile, mirrors and windows for the rest of your life. The advanced fiber technology of these extraordinary cloths penetrates and removes dirt, soap scum, grease and bacteria with just plain water. There’s absolutely no use of any harmful bathroom cleaners and their noxious fumes.

The Sponge Cloth is for thick grease and dirt. Its superior water absorption and superabundant holding capacity makes it an ideal bathroom cleaning tool. The Glass & Polishing Cloth is for glass, light cleaning and final polishing. (Not for use on electronic screens and delicate lenses.)

Faster, Easier Cleaning – E-cloth’s fiber function makes cleaning faster and easier. Regular use of these cloths will be a significant help in reducing lime scale and water mark build up. (For bathroom floors, check out the E-cloth Mop Set.)

Money-saving Cleaning
– no paper towels or household chemical to buy. E-cloth performance is guaranteed for 300 machine washings.

Healthier Cleaning – no harmful chemicals or fumes because E-cloth uses fiber function to clean – not a chemical reaction. E-cloth cleaning is safe for everyone – especially important to allergy and asthma sufferers.

Eco-friendly Cleaning – E-cloth reduces paper towels landfill waste, and pollution that chemicals create.


100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back



High-performance fiber function
and plain water. The new way to clean.

E-cloth cleans everything more thoroughly than traditional cleaning, and it’s faster and easier for you.


E-cloth Fiber Deep Cleans
Absorbs moisture, lifts and traps dirt, grease, oil, grime and bacteria

Surface is cleaned & polished with no chemical residue left behind

Cotton Fiber Superficially Cleans
Pushes dirt around versus deep cleaning & polishing

Surface is not thoroughly cleaned and a chemical residue is left behind

E-cloth’s best quality fibers and highly advanced fabrication enables uncanny cleaning performance. It’s a combination of two basic fibers, Polyester and Polyamide (a nylon by-product).

•These fibers are split and formed into a fabric of 80% Polyester (the scrubbing and cleaning fiber), and 20% Polyamide (the absorbing and quick drying fiber).

•These threads are very small in diameter, making them ideal for cleaning because they possess far more cleaning edges to pick up dirt.

Rated in denier (the unit for measuring fineness of fabric) a strand of cotton has a rating of 200. A human hair has a denier of 20 and a strand of silk has a denier of 8. E-cloth fiber has a denier of 0.26.

•Each fiber is 1/100th the width of a human hair and is split into 16 fiber strands resulting in a standard E-cloth having an extraordinary 500 million strands per cloth.

•Unlike conventional cloths, as you draw an E-cloth across a surface, the fibers clean by breaking up, trapping and absorbing dirt, grease, oil, grime and bacteria from all hard surfaces.

•The standard E-cloth is capable of rapidly absorbing up to 7X its weight in water.

There’s microfiber, then there is E-cloth® Microfiber...


"Microfiber" is a general term used to describe a wide variety of materials fabricated using ultra-fine fibers. There is a large disparity of quality from one to another. Because the term microfiber is not regulated, great products like E-cloth share the same designation with poor ones – so the association is often misleading. Understandably, inexpensive microfibers do not clean as well, and are not as durable as premium microfiber. The overall performance of many microfibers can be disappointing. Only high quality fibers are used in the manufacture of E-cloths and we ensure that each fabric specification has the cloth's end-use in mind for the highest level of cleaning effectiveness.

What does E-cloth clean?

You’ll be impressed with E-cloth’s cleaning versatility. You’ll clean better everywhere. The science behind it enables exceptional cleaning results on a wide variety of hard surfaces, including:

Glass Stainless Steel Chrome
Wood Counter Tops Granite
Tile Ceramic Marble

Where does E-cloth clean?

You’ll quickly discover that E-cloth is the best cleaning companion you’ve ever had in a wide variety of places – making cleaning easier, faster and less expensive.

Kitchen – From toasters to refrigerators, and everything in-between – floors included. Especially good on anything stainless steel – a cleaning frustration in most homes.

Bathroom – Sparkling clean mirrors, sinks, faucets, tubs, tile, shower stalls, floors

General – Streak-free windows, removes dust anyplace, great on all non-carpeted flooring surfaces, handy in workshops – E-cloth is good in so many places.

Drinkware – Finally a cloth that leaves all glassware streak-free, spot-free and lint-free all-at-once.

Electronics
– Clean and protect the sensitive screens of today’s TV’s, computer monitors, cell phones, MP3s, PDAs and GPS units. Also good on the lenses of expensive cameras, binoculars and eyewear.

Please note: Some screen and lens manufacturers advise cleaning with a microfiber cloth. The only cloths we recommend in the E-cloth product line are those designed for these special surfaces:
•Screen Cleaning Pack
•Lens Cleaning Pack
•Mobile Phone, MP3, PDA & GPS Cleaning Cloths
•Digital Photo Frame Cleaning

Outdoor – From furniture on the deck and patio to boats, campers and RV’s. With just water, E-cloth makes cleaning away from home convenient.

Workplace – Throughout the office and break room.

E-cloth® also has a Consumer award from Allergy UK, a Good Housekeeping Consumer Award for being a Household Timesaver, and a Good Housekeeping Green Living Award.

My Thoughts:

E-cloths are helping me in my quest to use more "green" products, and they clean GREAT! Less time cleaning means more time for me to do what I need to do in my home! And that's always a positive!

The best part is that there are no streaks! I swear, no matter what I do, sometimes I just can't get rid of the streaks! So now that I have this product, I don't have to worry about that anymore!

Let me not forget about not having to buy paper towels anymore. I'm a single mom and I don't always have money for paper towels. (Seriously!) And using newspaper sometimes gets the ink all over ME, so I'm 100% good with not having to use either of those items for cleaning my mirrors or windows! I just use the E-cloth and move on!

Win It!

TWO Winners will win one pack of their choice!

Main Entry:

Go to E-cloth and have a look around. Then come back here and tell me another product there that you would like to have. (Has to be a different one than mentioned here.)

Extra entries:

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Enter another giveaway here at A Simple Kinda Life (1 entry)

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Please remember to leave links and User IDs for the extra entries or they will be rejected. Also leave your email in the comment if it is not readily available in your profile.

This contest will end on August 1st at midnight EST. Winners will be drawn using Random.org, posted in a post here at A Simple Kinda Life, and will be emailed.

Thanks for stopping by and Good luck!


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Come Celebrate the Launch of Mamavation  



Have you heard all of the buzz about Mamavation? To apply, go here before July 21st and find out how you can be the Mamavation Mom!

Mamavation is a weight loss campaign and social media experiment that is being brought to us by BookieBoo and Earth Footwear. One mom will be chosen to be the Mamavation Mom, who will learn how to live a healthy lifestyle.

There will be a Twitter party on July 30th from 5pm to 8pm PST (Mountain Standard Time: 6pm to 9pm, Central Standard Time: 7pm to 10pm, OR Eastern Standard Time: 8pm to 11pm), where the Mamavation Mom will be announced. (Plus, they're giving away a pair of Earth Footwear every 20 minutes!!!) Use hashtag #mamavation to participate in the party.

To enter to win, go to Mamavation and grab a banner, and read the rest of the ways you can win!

Don't forget to join Bookieboo while you're at it!





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Kids Being Spoiled By Grandparents  

I was never really spoiled by my grandparents. My mom's parents were my favorites but they never spoiled my brothers and I. My father's parents, we always seemed to be around them more, but they were more of the disciplinarian type of grandparents.

Matter of fact, thinking back, I didn't really get spoiled by anyone.

I'm not too close to my adoptive family and my birth family lives too far away to spoil my kids, so my kids don't really get that whole spoiled by Grandma or Grandpa thing.

We went to visit my adoptive family on the 4th of July and my daughter wanted to eat some junk instead of the huge amount of food my mother had prepared. My daughter has ADHD and is rambunctious enough - so I was not feeling her having anything with loads of sugar.

My mom and dad overheard me tell her no to whatever it was and even though I don't remember exactly what they said, it was something along the lines that it was okay for her to have it, it was a holiday, etc.

At first I was a little taken aback because as kids, we never had soda or tea and Mom limited our sugar intake very strictly, in my opinion. So I thought, WTF?!, but didn't say it, of course, and politely told them that she bounces off of the walls enough and I didn't really need her to be keeping me up all night and if they wanted her to have it, I could leave her there for the night.

That of course didn't work, as my brother and his family was staying there during their visit from Colorado! Needless to say, my word stuck and that was that.

It's funny how things change when your parents become the grandparents, isn't it? It's like a total Switcheroo!

Have you experienced this with your kids and your parents? How did you handle the situation?


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CPSC Recalls - Important Information for Parents and Consumers  

Please click on the links to see the Press Release:

Evenflo Recalls Telephone Toys Due to Choking Hazard


Butterfly Chairs Recalled by Hobby Lobby Stores Due to Fall Hazard


Leather Shag Rugs Recalled by Chandra Rugs Due to Fire Hazard


Children's Hooded Jackets with Drawstrings Recalled by EMH Associates Due to Entrapment Hazard

Steam Cleaners Recalled by Thane International Due to Shock and Burn Hazards


Be informed!


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Winners: PakNak  

The PakNak giveaway ended a little over an hour ago and since I'm awake and desperately trying to get "caught up" this weekend, I figured I'd choose the winners now.

#86 - Kathy Pease
#66 - Judy Brittle
#99 - Jennifer Ketterer


Congratulations!

I'm emailing you all now. Please respond to my email within 48 hours or I will have to choose another winner.

Thanks to everyone for entering and to PakNak for sponsoring this giveaway!


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Winner: EyeBuyDirect.com Giveaway  

Friday, July 17, 2009

Random.org has chosen #77 out of 80 entries as the EyeBuyDirect.com Giveaway winner!

That means that Lisa Lovegrove is the winner!

Congratulations Lisa! I'm going to be sending you an email but if you see this post before then, please Email me!

You have 48 hours to respond to my email or I will have to choose another winner.

Thanks to everyone for entering and to EyeBuyDirect.com for sponsoring this giveaway!


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New Winners Drawn for Summer Soiree'  

A few of the winners from the Summer Soiree' did not respond (even with 3 additional days) so I had to choose new winners. (Just goes to show you gotta check your email including your spam folder! You just never know!)

The new winner for the MagnaPlay MagnaColeraze Reusable Color & Activity Sheet is #74, Toni Jensen from Mommies Angels!

New winner of 1 of the 3 ElfIsland.com memberships is #20, Terra Heck from Heck of a Bunch.

New Winner of the Membership to TidyKidz.com is #3, Danielle Garcia.

Congratulations to all of you!


Winners - please fill out this form to claim your prize:



I'm also emailing you all now - please also respond to my email so I know that you received it and that you filled out the form.

Thanks!


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Making Life Better with MakingLifeBetter.com  

As part of a MomCentral Blog Tour, I'm sharing this site with you today: MakingLifeBetter.com.

I've known about MakingLifeBetter.com for awhile now. I'm not sure how I stumbled on it, but it might have been a contest or it might have been a ResourcefulMommy Party... I can't recall!

Making Life Better is a wealth of information to, well, make your life better, from recipes to coupons for Unilever products. The purpose is to help you "feel good, look good, and get more out of life", and I believe they are achieving that!

You know I'm a sweepstakes and contests person! (I love to win!) If you sign up for the site, you get instant access to members-only sweepstakes! Right now there's one to win $500 in groceries, with 25 Instant Win Tote Bags!

I'm also into beauty and beauty products. Women are gorgeous creatures and I believe that we must take care of ourselves as much as possible so that we age gracefully! (The other day I got ID'ed for cigarettes and I will be 32 soon! That made my day!) And, as a single mom, I have to be creative to stay young, within our budget.

Making Life Better has a great article that I just discovered, The Ultimate Beauty Bargains - Nothing Over $10!. Be sure to check it out when you have a free moment!

And, since it's summer and we've all got kids home right now going stir-crazy, check out The Joys of Reading: 10 Ways to Turn Your Kids into Summer Bookworms.

Have you heard of MakingLifeBetter.com? If so, do you belong to the site? Have you made any of the recipes? Chime in and let us know!

I wrote this review while participating in a blog campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Unilever/Making Life Better. Mom Central sent me a gift card and a copy of the Family Fun Book to thank me for taking the time to participate.




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Between Me And You™ Journals: Coupon Code  



I wanted to take a minute and share with you a great product: Between Me And You™ Journals. You can find them on Sand Dune Books or Between Me and You Journals. And, if you use this code "SimpleLife", you can receive $1 off of each journal!

Individuals AND stores can take advantage of this offer!

If you have any questions regarding this promo, please contact me or you can contact Between Me and You on Twitter.



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Product Review Tips from the Experts  

The experts have spoken! The bloggers writing reviews at The Product Review Place were tasked with coming up with the most useful product review tips. These tips are designed to help those just starting out but can help even the most seasoned reviewers.

Read on to learn what the product review experts had to say:


I always try to get the company to realize the added exposure by offering a giveaway!

If a giveaway is tied into the review ask sponsor to direct ship. I HATE going to the post office and it takes me FOREVER to ship winners their things. Not only is it time consuming, but it can be VERY EXPENSIVE! I am going Saturday to the PO to send off things and I know it is going to cost me about $50! Two words: direct ship

Lisa from Mom of 2 Boys, Wife of 1


Be extremely organized. You need to keep track of items that come into your house and when you are going to post. I use outlook to keep everything organized. I organize all my e-mail into sub-folders and place everything I review on my calendar.

Louise from Momstart


Don't be afraid to ask! The worst they can do is tell you no, right?

Angie Knutson from My Four Monkeys


When I offer a giveaway along with the review, I always seem to get more hits on the post.

If you're not organized you won't know what product goes where or find your notes of what you planned on saying. Take notes on the product you are trying to review. Note everything, even if you don't think its important..you can always weed out your notes later.

Ask the company if there is anything that they want the readers to know about the product..you never know what they might say.

Jo from Jo's Blog Spot


I think stats are important. They might want to know: How many people are viewing your blog? your Google Page Rank or how many followers you have? Be prepared with this information.

Jaqueline from My Lil Guyz


Be detailed in your review. If your review is just 3 lines long with nothing more than general information in it, you're not helping your readers at all. Readers want to know more than what they can just read on the product's website. Plus, companies and PR folks will come back to you with other items in the future if they see you took the time to write a good review.

Also, don't be afraid to post a negative review. Make sure you mention that it's your opinion only, but don't be afraid to say why the product didn't live up to your standards. Moms want to know if it is really worth buying, or if it is just going to gather dust or be thrown away!

Storm from Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife


DON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK. My first giveaways came from my persistence. I simply asked and I received.

Keonte from The Verdict: Parenting on Trial


When approaching a company, include why you're a good match for their company in your pitch. Include specific references to their company and products in your request so that it doesn't seem like a form letter.

Katie from Katie's Nesting Spot


Request a giveaway and explain that it improves visits to their site.

Ask what link(s) the company would like for me to direct my readers to visit. I am always sure to send a link to the company once my post is up.

I never, ever ship my giveaways unless I'm running them myself. I once did a week worth of them on my newest blog and let me tell you, I spent way too much money. The other issue I have now, but will soon be over, is that I don't have business cards. Sending items without them seemed so cheesy to me.

Connie of Brain Foggles


My best advice (and this may not be too popular with the PR people) is to be honest. If you didn't like the product, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do the review. Just give your open and honest opinion. Your readers are intelligent and can decide for themselves if they like it, especially if there is a giveaway attached.

Adrienne of Adrienne's House




Product Review Tips from the Experts courtesy of The Product Review Place. The Product Review Place connects bloggers and consumers with PR.

The Product Review Place *** The Search is Over *** Reviews. Defined. Refined.


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