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Mom Love Contest

May 8, 2020

Watching Mandy (my wife, pictured here with our son Hucky) take on motherhood over the past 5 years has been a site. She is a force. Researching, reading, engaging and playing.  It came naturally ...

What Mask Filters Should We Sell?

May 8, 2020

As you probably know by now etee stands for everything touches everything else.  Our goal is for all our products to come from the earth and return to the earth, meaning biodegradable, eco-certifi...

How to Properly Wear a Face Mask

April 10, 2020

Okay, you've got yourself a face mask... now what? I know what you're thinking: "you just put it on and out you go, right?" Not quite. Fortunately for us, as soon as we started our 'buy one <&...

Should We Make Organic Cotton Face Masks?

April 1, 2020

Here's the situation.  Coronavirus is in full swing and the tools we have to 'flatten the curve' are evolving. This is what we know for sure: Hand hygiene is essential: a 20 second soap and water h...

Developing a Plastic-Free Dish & Hand Soap Pod

March 31, 2020

  Changing habits are tough, kind of like developing new products, but the end result is always worth it.  Ever since launching our beeswax wraps and bags, our customers asked us what dish soap ...

How to Use Your Hand Soap Concentrate

March 31, 2020

Fill your dispenser with 375ml (12.6oz) of water (makes 16.5oz or 400ML of soap) Rip open one end of your soap pod (rip it over top of your dispenser to capture all the paste). Squeeze out the ...

How effective is bleach as a disinfectant?

March 21, 2020

  Christmas of 2018 was awful. Everyone in our house got sick with the stomach flu, and it was not pretty.  This winter Mandy and I were determined not repeat that nightmare and so she cracked ope...

Soap Vs. Hand Sanitizer

March 19, 2020

Drug companies are investing millions to find a way to destroy the Coronavirus once it enters the body. Supplement companies are selling high priced nutraceuticals that promise to boost your immun...

Have a cool 'plastic-free' product idea that's keeping you up at night?

December 28, 2019

Welcome to the club! This is your chance to bring that idea to life.   No bad ideas, so dream BIG and help us - help you - make 20 new products in 2020. Top idea wins a prize! Winner will receive a...

Merry Christmas!

December 17, 2019

Happy holidays friends! Little known fact... pretty much everyone at etee has some sort of background in music, so each year we put together a Christmas track.  Here's one from a couple years back...

HOW SHOULD WE GIVE BACK?

December 4, 2019

Hey all, We believe we should give back - it's totally in line with our mission. Cash would be tough at this stage of our growth, but I'm sure there is so much more we could do. I'd love your sugg...

How-To Get 'Stubborn' Folks to Adopt Your New Foodwraps

November 17, 2019

We've all been there.  You surf online, find something new and cool, it arrives in the mail and you are pumped, then you try to get your household to jump on-board and they just can't change their...

How to Get 'Stubborn' Folks to Adopt Your New Dish Soap

November 13, 2019

When your Dish Soap arrives, some family members or flat-mates may be resistant to the new change - no judgement this happened in my house and I helped develop the stuff! Here's the thing, our soa...

How To Use Your New Dish Soap Concentrate

November 13, 2019

So how do you use this stuff? Fear not friend, it's pretty simple. Check out this video or read below. Fill your dispenser with 375ml (12.6oz) of water (makes 400ML of dish soap) Rip open one end...

Your Plastic Free Journey Starts Here...

November 13, 2019

In 2017 my buddy Pj and I launched etee after many hikes along the plastic littered shoreline of Lake Ontario and 16 months of product development.   The mission? Develop innovative solutions to ...