Guide to Green Cleaning

Traditional cleaning products are harmful to the environment and your health. With the threat of Global Warming we need to practice organic living for the future of our children. To green clean your house it's cheap, easy, and effective. Let's get started!

First, open up all those windows! It's summer time and the scent of all those beautiful flowers outside can produce natural air freshener! The air inside a home or office to be more toxic than the air outside. Proper ventilation of your home is crucial to maintaining good health. Keep windows open as often as possible allowing fresh air in and keeping toxins flowing out.

Baking soda is a great carpet freshener! Sprinkle some baking soda on your carpet while ventilating the house. Make sure to vacuum it up after a few minutes once the odor-eliminator does its job. Baking soda is cheap and has many uses. Besides acting as a carpet cleaner, baking soda can be used as toothpaste, or inside the refrigerator eliminating bad odors.

Combining white vinegar with hydrogen peroxide creates a cleaner similar to bleach without the harmful chemicals. Don't mix the white vinegar and hydrogen peroxide together in the same bottle. Mixing will cause the cleaner to weaken. Simply mix the products "as needed" and apply to a surface. White vinegar and hydrogen peroxide combine creates a cleaning product that can kill 100 percent of the bacteria in your home. A cleaner, fresher, and healthier home is just a few cents away.

Before you start tossing all of those old harmful cleaning products away pause just a second. Throwing the old cleaners in the trash or down the drain will still cause harm to the environment. Many communities hold toxic & electronics recycling days and will take all of these chemicals off of your hands. Whole Foods Market or another local organic grocery store is a good place to look to see what days they offer toxic recycling.