The Cleaning Power of Vodka
Getting that green cleaning regiment together means gathering lots of household ingredients from lemons to baking soda to vinegar to... vodka?
Getting that green cleaning regiment together means gathering lots of household ingredients from lemons to baking soda to vinegar to... vodka?
The humble lemon can be a powerful, versatile addition to your cleaning regimen.
Last week, we talked about cleaning with vinegar, and it got such a great response, I thought it would be fun to take a look this week at vinegar's best friend: baking soda.
Plain old vinegar has so many uses beyond being a delicious addition to salad dressing and critical for making pickles! You know you can use vinegar as an all-natural hair rinse. Did you know it’s a great disinfectant, too? Toxic cleaning supplies contribute to poor indoor air quality, not to mention the damage they do [...]
Until recently, no one associated sparkling clean bathrooms and kitchens with poisoned air and mutated aquatic life. But the same lemony fresh cleaners, disinfectants, and degreasers that shine your stove top can also make you sick and can cause real problems for the waterways they drain into. Just ask the Environmental Protection Agency, which reports that "the air inside the typical home is on average 2-5 times more polluted than the air just outside—and in extreme cases 100 times more contaminated—largely because of household cleaners and pesticides."
Oh, Swiffer! You are so convenient; why must you also be so wasteful? The thought of all of those pads ending up in the landfill has had me racked with Swiffer Guilt. Our Swiffer has been living in the closet for quite some time now, but we recently pulled it out again.