Comments on: Cruelty Free Baking Soda - Boycott Arm & Hammer, Buy Bob’s Red Mill

By: shirley grant

shirley grant — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:41:50 +0000

I live in England and would like to know where i might purchase Bob’s red Mill baking soda from…..Many thanks

By: marissa

marissa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:39:40 +0000

I am a totally believer of baking soda.! I have so many uses for it. I am 100% against animal cruelty and make me so sad and hard to believe that A&H test this product in animals since they advertise the product as natural and sensible for the enviroment. I will write to them and ask them to stop such a cruelty.!
I will try Bob’s Red Mill Baking Soda.

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:03:32 +0000

I just bought a hugh bag of A & H baking soda for non toxic cleaning. Then I found out it still test on animals. So I’m on my way back to Sams Club to return it and just placed an order with Bob’s Red Mill. Although it does take some research to do non toxic cleaning and try to be cruelty free, but I feel its so worth it in the end. Thank you so much for this article.

By: brenda l hey

brenda l hey — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:42:40 +0000

How or where can I buy Red Mill Brand Baking Soda. I live in RI. and am near Mass.
Thank you

By: joni

joni — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:00:43 +0000

why is arm and hammer using aluminim in their baking soda? Is their any person in canada using “Bob’s” baking soda? Whar other product do you carry?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:11:01 +0000

Thank you so much for letting us know about Arm and Hammer products! My household will NOT be using them again! We stopped using A&H baking soda to cook with when we found that it also contains aluminum which is connected with Alzheimer’s Disease. But Good heavens, I had no idea that they tested on animals! Thank you for standing up for what is right and good.
God bless you,
Sarah

By: tina

tina — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:31:12 +0000

i use bobs baking soda for everything.
brushing teeth, deodorant, occational hairwash, exfoliant, laundry, fridge, litter box, heartburn, fighting ants , cleaning the toughest stains or toilet mixed with vinegar…
you can mix it with castile soap and have an excellent dish detergent.
all i have in my household are baking soda, white vinegar and castile soap. using it for EVERYTHING!!!!
it works and its great for our planet….and for people with kids they can leave the stuff around worry free, your kids will never get poisoned.
there is even a doctor in italy that has some amazing results treating cancer with it. i had some pretty severe health issues in the past and i drank 1tsp baking soda mixed with a glas of water before sleep. i dont know if that cured me, since i was doing alot of other things too, but at least there i is no harm in trying it….

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:02:49 +0000

I went to the site and tried to make a comment, it just keeps recycling me to a page that says “Tell us what you think.” So - either they are inundated, or they don’t care. Go to the page and click on the pull down menus. These guys also SELL PET PRODUCTS! So they are destroying animals, yet they appeal to animal lovers? Puhleeeeze. We don’t need to just go after Arm & Hammer, if they test on animals for Baking Soda, imagine what they do with Nair and the other products on the list. Tweet this website over and over again until they feel the full force of the Twitter population. It’s the only way to get them to change.

The good news is that animal testing is no longer necessary. Scientific American just featured alternatives to animal testing in the latest issue. Go buy it, copy the articles and send them to every company you know of that animal tests. This is just ridiculous that they keep doing something that is unnecessary, cruel, costly, and gruesome. FWIW, I don’t buy ANYTHING that is tested on animals.

By: Damon and Cindy Williams`

Damon and Cindy Williams` — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:00:41 +0000

THANK YOU! How horrible a civlized country is STILL testing on animals. Encourage Bob’s Red Mill to get more into advertising their cruelty free product(s) Since there are so many people raising their consciousness re: cruelty to animals - Bob would be wise and very pleasantly surprised how popular his (?) products would be if they were better known Thank you again

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:23:50 +0000

This is another example of Arm & Hammer making a product that is also dangerous to humans… Ironically it is a “Pet Fresh” carpet powder. I also read reviews about this product causing seizures in healthy dogs with no previous medical problems.

Arm & Hammer Carpet & Room Pet Fresh Odor Eliminator was purchased by myself and my fiance because we felt A & H would be safe…

Boy was I wrong.

I normally have sensitivities to fragrances, but I had no idea that I would wind up in the emergency room two days after it’s use.
It took that visit to the ER to connect the dots to figure out why I had no lung capacity, why I felt like there was someone sitting on my chest, why I fainted, why I was scared to sleep and not wake up, and why I literally at one point realized that I could not inflate my lungs any longer.

I thought it was the antibiotics I was taking…but I had been on them about a week before these symptoms and it made no sense, until I went home and realized what had been the only real change to my home environment.

I had a severe Allergic Asthmatic reaction. I have only used an inhaler on one other occasion about ten years ago, when a summer in Oregon had some especially bad pollen and a lot of brush fires…I haven’t ever had this type of problem breathing.

I can’t imagine what this would do to someone with a more severe case of asthma, or a small child, or pet with sensitivities. Obviously someone’s pet had seizures.

I stopped breathing. I was lucky that I figured out what it was and removed it from my home. It happened a second time this morning when I had gone to bed on a pillow that I had forgotten had been on the floor before we cleaned our carpets to get rid of the A & H Petfresh.

My fiance was fine, so someone with no sensitivities would be okay… This is just a heads up for anyone out there with environmental sensitivities or mild to severe asthma or respiratory problems, and small children.