Each of us has been on a boat where the previous stewardess was a product shopper; always searching for the perfect cleaner that would do the job better. Then when the product does not work, it does not get thrown away but stuffed in the back of the cabinet, taking up prime real estate.

I came aboard M/Y Milk and Honey in November. I could not believe my eyes when I opened the cabinet doors in the laundry room.

There seemed to be a million different products.

On most of them, the directions were in another language. I had to smell them and look at the pictures on the box to figure out what each one was used for, not to mention how toxic most of them were.