Bon Voyage, Hawa!

Hawa Adam is one of our longest-term employees, but is now an owner of the Blue Nile affiliate. She started working soon after we started Safi. As Hawa prepares to visit her home continent for the first time in 20 years, we would like to honor her by remembering this brief interview we did with … Read more

Lemon Oil Alert

Here at Safi we have always used Oasis detergent. Oasis is a special green cleaning product because it isn’t just super safe for humans and pets, easy on the skin, safe for greywater systems, never tested on laboratory animals, and completely biodegradable… it also biocompatible. “What’s biocompatible?” you might wonder when you dictionary doesn’t recognize … Read more

Happy MLK Day!

Why was Martin Luther King, Jr in Memphis on April 4,1968? He had come to support the tired, underpaid sanitation workers who were on strike. Sanitation is often the last thing the economy really wants to support, and cleaners of all kinds tend to work hard for little pay. These are issues near and dear … Read more

Think sunshine and think Safi.

Think sunshine and think Safi. We clean our cloths in bio-compatible detergent, use the gray water to feed trees, and hang the cloths up to dry where UV light can further sanitize them. When we first learned that many cleaning companies use disposable towels, or use regular microfiber cloths, but throw them away after a … Read more