Eco Friendly Cleaning Products
Do you realize how much money you spend on every facet of household cleansers from toilet cleansers to general cleansers to mopping floors ñ the list seems endless. We walk down the shopping aisles selecting commercialized products for cleaning practically everything within and outside our home. The bulk of our shopping cart contents apart from foodstuffs are cleansing products both for personal hygiene and the cleanliness of our home.
Have you ever wondered how our Grandmothers coped without the availability of all these commercialized products? Were their homes dirty, were they dirty, did their homes not smell clean and fresh without the availability of aerosol room fresheners, were their clothes stained because they didn’t have access to pre-wash stain remover?
Have you heard of washing soda, borax, hydrogen peroxide, bicarbonate of soda, ethylated spirits, and good old vinegar? These outmoded products are every bit as effective as their commercially available counterparts, but there is an added bonus, the outmoded products are all environmentally friendly. Laundry soap powder per se was made by grating laundry soap. Soap powder is still commercially available as a pure laundry detergent.
Eucalyptus Oil is ideal for removing black scuff marks from vinyl flooring. For cleaning and disinfecting the use of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide added to a cleaning cloth can be used for wiping down bench tops and cutting boards to help kill bacteria. 3% hydrogen peroxide can also be used for treating mold on bathroom tiling. Just make up a spray bottle of 1 part peroxide to 2 parts water. For stubborn hard to remove mold you can use it straight.
Place a bowl of baking soda in your fridge and it will absorb food odors. Water stains on wooden floors can be removed with a sponge dampened in a solution of baking soda dissolved in water.
Bottled soda water can remove wine stains accidentally spilt on clothing.
In the Bathroom
Have you seen the price of these newest whitening toothpastes? Not cheap are they? How about trying a toothbrush dipped in 3% Hydrogen of Peroxide and then did it into bicarbonate of soda (also called baking soda) or you may prefer to make up a paste. Dip your toothbrush in Hydrogen of Peroxide and then dip it into salt as an alternative.
Common cooking or the more refined table salt is excellent as a breath freshener. Just place enough salt in a glass of warm to hot boiled water so that it is strong enough to be palatable and gargle. Common salt in the ratio of 1 teaspoon to 1 pint of warm or hot boiled water and you have an effective antibacterial for bathing wounds.
If you have a computer you can access all environmentally safe products for many different applications. In fact, you can get lost for hours viewing all the different environmentally safe products that work just as effectively as the commercially available non-environmentally safe products and you can save yourself a lot of money in the process.
