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Living Green For The Environment | Did You Know You Can Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products?

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Most of us have the basic ingredients for making our own Eco friendly cleaning products already in our cabinets, we just don’t know how to put them together.( source: Home and Garden Magazine: Living Green/ and Recipes from Green Clean)

  • Baking Soda:

    • Can be used for scouring, and it’s a natural deodorizer. It works best at cleaning grease, proteins and Animal messes.
  • Distilled White Vinegar:
    Can be used to clean soap scum, dissolves scale and works well on mold. It also works well on stains from coffee, tea and rust.
  • Soap:
    • Castille Soap made with Olive Oil or Vegetable based soaps attach to soil at the molecular level.
  • Recipes:
    • Soft Scrub:Mix a 1/8 cup of Baking Soda and soap to a creamy mixture.
    • Appliance Cleaner: Dry Baking Soda will shine up small appliances.
    • Toilet Cleaner/ Deodorizer: Put 1/4 cup Baking Soda and 1/4 cup Vinegar into the bowl and clean with brush.
    • Oven Cleaner: Sprinkle Baking Soda on stains in oven the sprinkle with water. Let sit for several hours or overnight. Then scrub out stains and rinse with water.
    • Hardwood Floor Cleaner: Mix a 1/4 cup of Vinegar with one gallon of warm water. Mop wood or linoleum floors then rinse out.
    • Glass Cleaner: Mix equal parts Vinegar and Water and put in a spray bottle. this mixture can also be used for cleaning countertops, lightly soiled range surfaces and backsplash areas.
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September 6th, 2007 at 04:45 am by bibi in General, Green Action, Green Products

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