Cleaning Green Tips
Cleaning “Green” Tips
Many cleaning tasks that we take for granted, such as cleaning the windows, washing the dishes, doing the laundry, or polishing the furniture often involve harsh and toxic chemicals. These are bad for your body, the environment, and for your personal environment – your home. Toxic chemicals found in many household cleaners can cause health problems for humans and pets. When you flush them down the drain or throw them outside, they become part of our water and land. Here are some green cleaning tips to help make your household cleaning jobs more eco-friendly.
- Baking soda makes a perfect natural and inexpensive cleaning green product. You can clean refrigerators, counter tops, floors, and walls with a warm, damp rag and some baking soda.
- Want to make your house smell better without harsh air fresheners? Try aromatherapy. Essential oils can be diffused into a room, the great thing about this is that you have a vast selection of scents to choose from. Each can have it’s own particular effects on your mood. Of course, you don’t have to follow an aromatherapy guide, you can simply follow your nose and use what is pleasant to you. You can try citrus, various floral blends, peppermint, eucalyptus, or lavender for starters.
- Another good natural household cleaning green product is borax. This is very efficient for freshening carpets. You can mix it with some essential oils to create a nicely scented, natural carpet cleaner that you can apply to the rug before vacuuming.
- For a natural at home window cleaner, mix two tablespoons of white vinegar with a gallon of water and clean your windows using newspapers. This simple and inexpensive solution works as well as your typical commercial mix that has strong toxic chemicals in it.
- To clean wood floors, you use another common household item –tea! Just boil up two teabags in hot water and mop up the floors.
Some other natural household cleaners you can use for many cleaning tasks are lemon juice and club soda. Both of these remove stains from just about any surfaces.
Of course, in addition to these suggestions you can go to your health food store and more commonly a mainstream supermarket, and find a wide variety of organic and natural cleaning product for every purpose. These tend to be a little more expensive than commercial brands, but many are also highly concentrated.
You can do just as well any commercial product with the DIY (do it yourself) type cleaning green tips included above. Either way, remember that you when something needs cleaned, you can always make the green choice!
No related posts.
Tags: aromatherapy essential oils, Home, natural carpet, natural household, product, water
essential oils are very soothing and they smell good too`.’