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Clean and Green for the Holidays

posted by Jana Ballinger Nov 20, 2008 11:00 am
Clean and Green for the Holidays
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The holidays are coming and you know what that means–company’s coming too! If you’re planning to entertain a gaggle of relatives, a flock of friends, or both, then you are going to want to make your home clean and inviting.

But what’s inviting about the smell of toxic chemicals, the kind found in most commercial cleaning products? Besides being better for the Earth and better for your health, these tips for DIY formulas will make your home clean, green and smell great to boot.

Solvent-Free Furniture Polish

Non-Toxic Oven Cleaner

Silver Cleaning With Household Basics

Mulled Cider Air Freshener

Fragrant Floor Wash

The 5 Basics for Non-Toxic Cleaning.

P.S. If you’ve got people staying over, read the Best-Dressed Guest Nest for making your spare room a home away from home for visiting relatives and friends.

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Janna Spektor

thank you

Sam Torres

Homax also has an awesome line of environmentally friendly, non-toxic cleaning products. They have some of the most amazing stain removers I have ever used too. They clean stains out of nearly any type of material, without damaging the item you are actually cleaning! If you purchase from them online, you can also get free shipping. Check them out at:
www.homaxproducts.com

Shannon Cox

Shaklee has a really great product line of entirely non-toxic, eco-friendly cleaning products that work better than any of the other green products I have tried.

You can check their entire GetClean line at at:

http://www.shaklee.net/shannon/prodHou

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