Eco Answers From the Eco-Expert

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November/December 1999
By Debra Lynn Dadd  
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My local water softener dealer says that the amount of salt in softened water shouldn’t affect your vegetation, but he also says that softeners are usually installed to soften only indoor water. It sounds like a water softener might be a good purchase for you; it will save cleaning mineral deposits and make soap products easier to rinse from your clothes. (For more information on water filtration, see Natural Home’s May/June 1999 issue, page 56.)

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Counteracting Mothball Odor

Do you know of any products available for counteracting the smell of mothballs in an outdoor storage shed? We live in a mobile home park. We recently put up a storage shed and just threw mothballs all over inside. The smell is bothering the people next door. Is there a safe product I can use to reduce the smell without taking everything out of the shed and removing the mothballs?
—Shelly Hoops, via e-mail

I know of no way to counteract the smell of mothballs without eliminating them. You may want to completely seal any cracks in the shed to keep the mothball smell inside—this will also keep out moisture. My preference is to eliminate the mothballs altogether. Then you can air out the items in the shed and use a natural, fragrant repellant such as cedar, lavender, rosemary, or mint.

Debra Lynn Dadd is an internationally known expert on healthy home environments and author of Home Safe Home.
If you have eco-questions, please write her at Natural Home, 201 E. Fourth St., Loveland, CO 80537-5655; or visit her website at www.dld123.com.
“Environmentor” is used with the permission of the EnvironMentors Project, an environmental education mentoring program.

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