Sweepstakes -- Green Works™ Dishwashing Liquid

Back in May, we had the pleasure of testing Clorox's Green Works™ line of natural cleaning products.

Now Clorox has just introduced a new Green Works product for the kitchen - Green Works Dishwashing Liquid.

Using plant-based ingredients derived from coconuts and olive oil, the Green Works Dishwashing Liquid promises to cut through grease and loosen cooked-on food while being gentle on your dishes and cookware. As always with Green Works products, the product has not been tested on animals and is apparently both non-allergenic and biodegradable.

But does it work? You betcha!

Unlike some puny natural cleaners, we found that Green Works Dishwashing Liquid sudzed up great and worked just as well as the non-Green cleaners we used in our unenlightened youth.

(Apparently "sudzed up" is not technically a real English phrase, but we would like to submit it for inclusion in the language. You know what we mean, right?)

Like the rest of the Green Works product line, Green Works Dishwashing Liquid will carry the logo of the Sierra Club, which carries a certain amount of environmental gravitas.

And if one Green logo isn't enough to prove Green Works' good intentions, the Dishwashing Liquid also is emblazoned with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Design for the Environment" logo.

Although Green Works Dishwashing Liquid is available in five scents (Original, Water Lily, Tangerine, Free & Clear and Simply Lemon), we like the Free & Clear version best, because frankly we think scents and dyes are a bit unnecessary in a dishwashing liquid.

We presume and hope that such scents and dyes would be as natural and environmentally-friendly as possible, but they can't possibly be as eco-friendly as using no dyes or scents at all.

Where to buy:

Green Works products including the Dishwashing Liquid (Update - MSRP $3.59) are apparently available everywhere Clorox products are sold, which means too many places to list here, but probably including your local grocery store.

How to win:

We had so much fun and got so much great feedback on our first Sweepstakes last week, that we're running another one starting today!

Thanks to the generosity of Clorox and its marketing agency, five lucky winners will each get one bottle of the new Green Works Dishwashing Liquid!

How to enter: Just sign up for a 1Greenproduct.com email subscription, then confirm your email address by replying to the verification request sent by FeedBurner

When it ends: 11:59 p.m. EDT on August 19, 2008.

Already a 1GreenProduct.com email subscriber? Congratulations! That means you're automatically entered in this sweepstakes.

Additional chances to win: Active email subscribers can get three (3) additional entries for this sweepstakes by blogging about the 1GreenProduct.com Green Works Dishwashing Liquid Sweepstakes and then emailing us a link to your post.

How we choose a winner: On August 20, we will pick five (5) winners using an Internet-based random number generator at Random.org.

Our promise: We will never sell your email address to marketers or spammers. Your email address is used solely to deliver 1GreenProduct.com news and review. Generally, you can expect to receive between 3-5 email updates per week.

One entry, many great prizes: Remember, as long as you remain an active 1GreenProduct.com email subscriber, you'll automatically be entered into all future sweepstakes. We'll try to run an average of at least one sweepstakes per month.

The fine print: Unfortunately, for legal and/or logistical reasons, we apparently have to limit the sweepstakes to residents of the 50 United States and D.C. who are 18 years of age or older.

Please play fair. You can only subscribe once to the email list and you can only get a maximum of three additional entries for writing a blog posting about the sweepstakes. To read the complete list of Sweepstakes rules, follow this link.

Good luck! And may the Green Works force be with you.

Update - This sweepstakes has been featured on SweepsGoat and Online-Sweepstakes.com.