As a mom to 3 young children, I have become sensitive to what I use as cleaners in my home. I have eliminated MOST not all (yet) toxic chemical cleaners and have replaced them with more environmental/green products.
Here are 3 things I use to green clean my home:
** Use Vinegar — as I have found out, vinegar is an all-natural solution to clean and deodorize your home. Now you don’t have to use irritating and smelly chemicals to clean your home. I use vinegar when I wash my children’s clothing, I use vinegar to clean calcium build up in my bathroom. There are also many more uses of vinegar I haven’t tried.
** Baking Soda — use it to eliminate odor (I use it on my carpets) and may be used as a gentle scouring powder
** Borax — great for eliminating odor, removing dirt. Do keep out of reach of children as it is toxic if swallowed.
How do you green clean?
2 responses so far ↓
Andrea // March 15, 2008 at 3:55 am
I’m not as environmentally clean as you (yet), but I’m a fan of cleaning with vinegar too.
One of my favorite uses for it is cleaning our stainless steel kitchen sink. I sprinkle the sink with baking soda, slice a fresh lemon in half, squeeze the juice of the lemon around the sink, and add a splash or two of vinegar. I use the lemon halves to scrub the sink and then I wipe the sink down with a sponge and rinse it out. Sometimes I grind the lemons in the garbage disposal to get rid of any odors.
The sink sparkles and smells great. Plus, I haven’t used any chemicals to do it.
geisharain // March 19, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Andrea,
I do exactly the same thing with my sink. Especially with garburators — they tend to smell after a while and I do the lemon thing and it’s odorless again.
Thanks for your tips!
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