Latest Stories in Bathroom Design - Page 10
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Shadow Lake Castile Soap Relaunched As Organic
Shadow Lake Pure Castile Soap, a specialty soap made from plant extracts has been re-launched with new packaging and a reformulation featuring certified organic essential oils. The 16-ounce bottles are made from PETE, the highest-grade recyclable plastic
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Caroma Smartflush Toilets
Australia is a country that often faces droughts and urbanization has put additional demands on water reserves, so any device that saves water is of great benefit. That's why dual flush toilets have been in mainstream usage in Australia for about 10
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Envirolet Buzz
Corporate blogs can be useful and entertaining if they try to add new items regularly and keep people interested. Treehugger has high hopes for the new blog from the makers of the Envirolet composting toilet- A good introduction to the concept and some
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Nui — Certified Organic Soap
Been a lot of talk recently about the End of Oil, how production might peak this year and supplies diminish from there on. Well, here is one good news oil story. A renewable oil. An organic oil. 100% virgin coconut oil sourced with fair trade not free
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Athena Contollable Toilet Flush Handle
Remember the good old potty-motto, "If it's yellow ?" Even though I understand, respect and even occasionally follow this sage advice — that doesn't change the fact that it can kind of gack me out to "let it mellow." Fortunately for
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Drain Heat Recovery Device: GFX
Approximately 80-90% of all hot water energy goes down the drain, carrying with it up to 955 billion kWh of energy in the US alone. The GFX is a device that reuses the heat from hot water going down your drain, and uses it to preheat water going into
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Danze "Lily" Showerhead
The output from standard, one-function showerheads sometimes resembles a trickling faucet more than a bodacious jet spray. You might not need to install a luxury shower cabinet to get the effect you want. You can get a better shower experience and use
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Reliance Water-Saving Shower Delivers Perfect Temp
The Thermostatic Shower does all this and looks pretty sharp as well. There's nothing worse than shivering in your birthday suit on a cold winter's morning, waiting for the shower temperature to reach a barely tolerable level. From an environmental
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Toilet Trees
Looking to add something to your bathroom but you just don't know what? Here's a tip: how about a plunger? We're not just talking any plunger though, we're talking 'bout the Toilet Tree (ha ha, get it). It's an unclogging device "cover"
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Fix my bathtub.
Got a chipped Victorian bathtub with leaky corroded valves? Picked one up at a garage sale? Dreaming of a hot soaker in a re-beautified one like this? Before you take the 'plunge' toward restoration some circumspection is in order.Old fashioned
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Dual Flush Toilet by Caroma
We’ve talked about the no-flush urinals, but what about toilets for the *other* waste us humans continually produce? The folks at Caroma have figured it out with the dual-flush toilet. But don’t be fooled, this toilet doesn’t flush two times it actually
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Vegan Hemp Candles
Like Soylab and Madisyn Taylor these candles are made from soy wax as well. But what makes these candles different is that they are made with a 100% hemp wick that is unbleached and undyed. Some cotton wicks have lead or other toxic metal cores and
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Bamboo Fiber Bath Towels
If you haven’t guessed yet, we love bamboo. What isn’t made of it? Well, okay a lot of things, but here’s another product made from the fiber of this remarkable plant. These towels are high in absorbency yet quick dry as well. Because they are
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Toto's EcoPower Auto-Sensor Faucet
We’ve all used those auto-sensor faucets and toilets in public spaces from the Centre Pompidou to the Burger King off I-95, but just how well do some of them work? They certainly seem more hygienic than touching the same grubby fixtures that a million
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Waterless Urinal System
We recently reported on another waterless urinal that uses a recyclable cartridge and doesn't waste precious water. Seems the trend is being flushed out, as we've discovered yet another company with a similar product... Readymade-types will have to
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Shetkastone soap holder
When we were researching countertop materials for a recent Q&A; we stumbled upon Shetkastone. It would appear that it's made simply of specially formulated recycled paper. Of any sort. From office paper to waxed paper, glossy magazine paper and telephone
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William Hsu's UnBathroom Emergency Toilet
When curators at London's Design Museum asked international designers to select a product that both cost less than £10 and represented good design, Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity, didn't hestitate to throw the concept in the
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Ripple Products Shower Timer
"What we do, what we say and how we act, can create a ripple in our community." Ripple make educational products so customers become more aware of their water consumption. An average Australian , for example, uses 400 litres of water each day, which is a
