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Eco Friendly House
Cleaning
Tips
and Recipes
using simple and safe
ingredients
for a cleaner house and planet
As
you safely
use and remove the toxic potions you currently use to clean your baby's
environment, replace
them with simple, cheap items found in any grocery store. These house cleaning tips and
recipes really work and
lighten the impact on both your local environment and the planet!
Basic Ingredients for
Eco Friendly Cleaning
- Baking
soda
- white vinegar
- lemon juice
- soap (dish and/or
hand)
- salt
Thats
it! Add others that you feel are ecologically safe as you experiment,
follow some of the recipes and advice listed below and pretty soon your
child will be crawling about a cleaner, safer and environmentally
balanced house!
Cleaning
Tips and Recipes
- A
great glass cleaner
is a mixture of half water and half white viengar.
- Clean
up mold and mildew in the bathroom with a mixture of salt
and lemon juice or white
vinegar.
- For
a good carpet deodorizer,
shake cornstarch and baking soda on your rug
before
vacuuming.
- A
good carpet cleaning tip
is using a mixture of water, lemon juice and salt on a stain. Rub
vigorously with a rag dipped in the mixture and follow with a quick
vacuum.
- Make
a paste of baking soda, salt and hot water for a great oven cleaner.
- Instead
of using a highly toxic drain cleaner, pour a quarter cup of baking
soda into
the clogged drain
and follow that with a half cup of vinegar. Close the
drain
and wait for the fizzing bubbles to stop. Flush with a pot of boiling
water.
The versatility of
Baking Soda!
Great
household uses for a safe, inexpensive product:
- Baking soda and a damp rag can remove crayon,
pencil and other marks from your walls.
- Remove
the scuffmarks your child (or husband)
leaves on the linoleum or tile floor with a damp sponge dipped
in baking soda.
- Get more
uses from sponges or your favorite
dish scrub brush by soaking them overnight in baking soda and water.
- Shake a bit of baking soda over your carpets,
wait for ten minutes, then vacuum for an eco friendly carpet deodorizer.
The
Magic of
White Vinegar
A
fantastic
eco option for tough cleaning needs
First,
it is important to use good quality white vinegar. The cheaper
white vinegars are made with a petroleum byproduct, so we obviously
want to avoid those. Check the ingredients (only grains and water,)
spend a few extra pennies and get the good stuff for great,
baby-safe cleaning.
- Pouring white vinegar into your toilet bowl,
and allowing to sit for ten minutes before flushing, will
remove stains and bacteria.
- Remove
the stickers, labels or glue that your
baby put on the refridgerator or windows by wiping with white vinegar.
- A mom often needs coffee. White vinegar can
remove the stains in your mugs and coffee pot.
- Once a month make several ice cubes out of
white vinegar. Put them in your garbage disposal, constantly add a
small amount of cold water while you turn on the disposal. The vinegar
cubes will deodorize your sink and sharpen the disposal blades.
- For clogged drains, boil vinegar and pour into
the drain.
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