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Cleaning tips
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[edit] Eco-cleaning products
- Make your own. It’s easy to make your own green cleaning supplies using basic ingredients such as baking soda, lemon juice, liquid castile (or vegetable-based) soap, vinegar, and salt. Though some take a little more elbow grease than conventional cleaners, they are a lot safer. Try some of these simple homemade green cleaning supplies
- Make your own soap
- Make your own All-purpose green cleaner
- Make your own Scouring powder
- Use old newspaper to clean mirrors.
- Ecover - the most famous ecological cleaning products
- Clean your windows with Homemade vinegar window rinse
- See also Uses for vinegar.
- See here for a vast list of non-toxic or less-toxic alternatives to hazardous household chemicals.
- Look here for recipes to make your own non-toxic cleaning products - from all purpose cleaner to stain remover, bleach and wood floor polish.
[edit] Why clean ecologically?
- Some cleaners even contain suspected carcinogens and reproductive and developmental poisons. Some are thought to cause asthma. According to the American Thoracic Society, using conventional household cleaning sprays once a week may increase the risk of developing adult asthma, and may be responsible for one in every seven adult asthma cases. The higher the concentration of cleaning products in indoor air, the greater the risk that a child will develop asthma.
- Some conventional household cleaners also sully the environment with ingredients that can contaminate the air, water, and soil when they are manufactured, used, and thrown away. Cleaning products with phosphates, for example, can cause "dead zones" in lakes and streams. Triclosan, a chemical used in antibacterial cleaners that has been shown to interfere with thyroid function in animals, is now polluting more than 60% of U.S. streams.
[edit] Eco-cleaning Companies
- Use an eco-cleaning company Home Sweet Home UK (London)
- Use an eco-cleaning company Greenway Maid US (San Francisco)