Comments on: Green tip: Lose the beef-fat dryer sheets

By: jimmydee

jimmydee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:26:31 +0000

“Like….a dead cow….yuck.”

What are you, 14?

Now that I, too, have learned this, my response is: “I could care less.”

Ever eat jello?

By: Lacy

Lacy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:53:28 +0000

Great post! I bought my wool dryer balls from http://www.wooldryerballs.com too and they really do work as stated. Mine are a year old and still going strong!

By: William Diepenbrock, Editor

William Diepenbrock, Editor — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:20:19 +0000

That’s very funny. In fact, tallow has a long and illustrious history of a highly useful nature. I was reading to my 6-year-old just last night how children in the 1870s used beef tallow to keep their leather shoes supple. And tallow candles were a staple.

I’m also convinced McDonald’s use of beef tallow was why its fries rocked, until they changed it.

On the other hand, those fries are still quite tasty, and if you can do the same thing for dryer sheets with a vegetable product, why not go for it?

Curoiously, Wikipedia notes that beef tallow is an ingredient in a biodegradable motor oil being sold by a company in Connecticut. So maybe if there’s less in dryer sheets, there will be more for that.

By: logicisourfriend

logicisourfriend — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:11:43 +0000

I happen to like tallow.