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- Ronnie Citron-Fink
- November 29, 2009
- 7:07 am
- 66 comments
Is it crowded under your sink with bottles of cleaning products? Healthy cleaning at home starts with some basic ingredients that keep toxins at bay, the EcoNest sparkling and your pocketbook happy.
Below are great tips for creating pure and natural cleaning products for your home. These tips and recipes were found on Eco Etsy, and submitted by SimplyNu. Below are some links to Care2 articles about natural cleaning and a YouTube video that shows how to make some basic cleaners. Check it out!
Eco-Friendly Cleaning Ingredients
Baking soda: An all-purpose cleaner. Especially effective on glass coffee pots and glassware, baking soda also removes red-wine stains from carpeting. A paste (made with water) can shine stainless steel and silver and can remove tea stains from cups and saucers. Make a paste by mixing baking soda with a Castile or vegetable-based liquid soap and a drop of essential oil (tea tree or lavender) to clean sinks, countertops, toilets and tubs. To clear a clogged drain, pour 1 cup down the sink followed by 3 cups of boiling water.
Boiling water: Use weekly to flush drains and avoid clogs.
Coarse salt: Cleans copper pans and scours cookware. Sprinkle salt on fresh spills in the oven, then wipe off. Sprinkle salt on rust stains and squeeze a lime or lemon over them, let sit for several hours and wipe off.
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Ronnie Citron-Fink
Ronnie Citron-Fink is a writer, editor and educator. She has written hundreds of articles about sustainable living, the environment, design, and family life for websites, books and magazines. Ronnie is the creator of Econesting, and the managing editor of Moms Clean Air Force. Ronnie was named one of the Top Ten Living Green Experts by Yahoo. Ronnie lives in New York with her family.
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Lesser known but all the same breathtaking!
Magical herbs!
II use baking soda and vinegar to do most of my cleaning. Thanks for this information & reminder…
66 comments
+ add your ownThanks , good advise !
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thanks.
great, thanks a lot!
thanks for the information
Great article!! Thanks Ronnie!!
Have a good day everyone!!
:)
You forgot white vinegar!
I started using baking powder to clean the sink because I ran out of the chemical cleaner. I thought it worked great and I am thankful someone else agrees.
I will definately look into the oils ... especially the lavender ... I'm a big fan of lavender.
I love that little video!
thank you!
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