Making your own green window/glass cleaner is one of the easiet cleaning agents to make and the ingredients are probably already under your kitchen sink.
All you need is
2 Cups of Water
3 Tbs of Vinegar
1/2 tsp liquid dish detergent
Combine ingredients into a spray bottle and you have the most effective green window cleaner around. Simply spray on glass and wipe off with newspaper or microfiber cloth.
Please share any of your window cleaning recipes with us in comments
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So you’ve gone through all the troubles of making your home a clean and safe environment for you and your family. Maybe you’ve switched to green cleaning products and eliminated the checmicals in your home and you’ve probably started buying products made with sustainable materials. Now, it’s Monday morning and you take your children to daycare. Is this place where your child spends a great majority of the day as clean and safe as your home? Here are a few things you should think about when choosing a green day care provider.
We some of us have the best intentions when it comes to protecting our planet and making better choices at the market, buying green cleaning products and organic foods. However, there have been instances when even i ( yes i said it) considered buying chlorine bleach just for those specific instances when i needed my whites, whiter and not dingy. Instead of giving up and buying the unhealthy stuff, I did some research and found a recipe that actually work well and can be used on just about all fabrics.
The bathroom-the one room in the house that everybody uses, but nobody likes to clean. Even when we do get around to cleaning the bathroom, odors can still linger behind. Most consumers stock their cupboards with expensive aerosol deodorizers which can expell toxins into your home, including formaldehyde.
1) Use cleaning products made from safe natural and not-toxic ingredients to prevent exposure to the hazardous synthetic chemicals conventional cleaners often contain. You can now easily find green cleaning products in the household isle of your local grocer or convenient store. Popular brands include Seventh Generation, Ecover, Mrs. Meyers, & Method brand cleaners.
2) Dust with a damp cloth to ensure that household dust, which can collect toxins, is removed from surfaces and not stirred back into the air. A micro-fiber cloth works best and because of it’s technology, you don’t have use as much cleaning solution to get the job done.
3) Open windows and doors occasionally (even in winter!) to rinse out any air pollutants that have accumulated inside.
4) Don’t use aerosol products. They fill your home with microscopic droplets of whatever is being sprayed. These droplets remain suspended in the air for hours and are easily inhaled.
5) Avoid room deodorizers or other air “freshening” products, which are frequently made from unhealthy chemicals.
6) Don’t use any pesticide products in your home, your yard or garden, or on your pets. Instead, supplement a preventative strategy with natural pest control methods.
7) If you decide to use them, keep conventional cleaners and other chemical products out of your children’s rooms.
Use chlorine-free dishwasher detergent. The chlorine in conventional detergents is easily vaporized by hot dishwasher water and then released into your home’s air.
9) Ask guests to remove their shoes when entering your home. That way, they won’t track in pollutants.
10) Buy a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. These special filters trap unhealthy dust and allergens.
These fast and easy tips will help you clean your home the green way without costing you and extra money. Please share with us any quick green cleaning tips you may have with our community
