Okay, back to everyday life. One activity I did today was tend to our cutting board. It is built into the counter and made of corian, a very hard plastic. Such a simple, mundane chore, and yet amazingly, even with cleaning the cutting board, there is an environmental catch, a broader environmental issue that needs to be addressed. The news wires seem flooded in the last few days with articles on drug resistance, which is caused by our overuse of antibiotics and the fact that people eat animals that are fed antibiotics.
People use disinfectants for a lot more than just their cutting boards.
Using herbs as antiseptic agents is an old art, and doesn't appear to cause drug resistance in bacteria. Many are so antibacterial that they are used in natural cosmetics as preservatives. For my cutting board, I make a lovely smelling lavender spray by combining about 20 drops of a pure essential oil of lavender with a cup of water in a spray bottle. I spray it on the cutting board and just leave it overnight without rinsing. All rights reserved.