What the Heck’s a Norwex?

I finally have had a chance to write a bit again and wanted to share an update and story on how I stumbled across Norwex – and don’t worry, it’s ok if you’ve never hear of it. I hadn’t either.

When I was visiting a good friend of mine who lives in Ohio, his wife mentioned something about Norwex if passing. Not having any idea what that was myself and being a curious person, I had to ask. She told me that they are a green cleaning option that allow you to just use water and these special silver-infused high-end microfiber cloths to clean. Of course, I was hugely skeptical, but wanted to see her demo how it worked nonetheless – if nothing else to get a good laugh.

She happily agreed and then proceeded to pull out a piece of raw chicken from her refrigerator. She wiped it all over her counter, and you could see the chicken slime all over the place. Pretty gross. Then she takes a wet Norwex Envirocloth and proceeds to wipe over the area where the chicken was. Then comes the cool part. She takes out a special protein test used to detect germs in restaurants and wipes it over the same area of counter. And sure enough, no protein residue. Wipe the cloth… no protein detected. Test a spot that wasn’t cleaned with the cloth – it immediately reacts and turns the opposite color.

All that she did to clean it, was rinse it out well under hot water or a little dish soap if you’re really concerned. The micro-silver embedded in it also prevents that nasty cloth or sponge smell that so often happens to things that get wet in the kitchen.

She then goes on to tell me about how Clorox wipes aren’t really as good as most of us (including me at the time) think they are. If you read the directions, the surface is supposed to stay wet for 10 minutes.

I found this video on YouTube that shows both the chicken test and a Lysol test with liquid germ powder. It certainly made me think twice.

So getting back to present day… she sent me home with two of the more popular options, the all-purpose Envirocloth and the Window Cloth which amazingly leaves windows, mirrors, and other smooth glass.

Since then I’ve purchased several other Norwex products and couldn’t be happier with nearly all of them. I love that I’m able to reduce the amount of chemicals I’m using around the house given our two little ones. Perhaps I’ll share the details about some of those other ones in another post.

Norwex cloths are only available from Norwex consultants, so don’t go looking for them on Amazon. If you’re interested in trying them out, I’d be happy to help you get started, just let me know @TalkToErik.