Which natural cleaning products do you think work the best?

Answer 1

Vinegar for fabric softener, tub and tile (for water spots and soap scum) and for deodorizer. Vinegar is also a great disinfectant. There are a thousand other uses. I buy vinegar about 5 gallons at a time.

Baking soda is great for carpet freshener, laundry detergent booster, scouring powder, deodorizer. And a thousand other uses. I buy baking soda at least 10 boxes at a time.

GrapeFRUIT seed extract www.nutribiotic.com is a powerful germ killer and can be mixed for spray and wipe disinfectant. It is food safe and can also be used medicinally. Read up on it.

Tea tree oil is also a great disinfectant.

Natural oils like olive and citrus oil can be used for furniture polish.

Essential oils used any number of ways can replace air fresheners, linen sprays, and Febreze.

Dusting with a vacuum attachment instead of Pledge.

Cleaning with heat, hot water, steam, elbow grease replaces a lot of chemicals. For example, jacking up your oven to burn the crusties out rather than using Easy Off.

Fans, opening a window, or ionic air purifiers, are better than spraying things to clean up the air.

I am hearing that hydrogen peroxide is a good substitute for chlorine bleach but I have never done this.

For premade items, they are available at health food stores, and don't forget Method brand by Target. There is also Simple Green.

Having said all this, I do use regular cleaners throughout my house. I use them in their concentrate or large size and mix to meet my needs, and I use them responsibly. My three essentials are Windex, PineSol, and Murphy Oil Soap. I also think that using a single simple chemical responsibly such as bleach or ammonia, is not as bad as using some of the cleaning cocktails that are available for heavy duty cleaning, or mixing and matching a bunch of stuff all over the house when one doesn't work...much safer, much more simple chemically.

I think it is easier to clean green if you have minimal carpet in the house...hardwood is less stain resistant and cleans nicely with Murphy mop water whereas you need all sorts of things to clean other types of flooring and carpet doesn't look good long enough to last without steam cleaning, stain removing, high traffic treatments.

Answer 2

I like Method cleaning products. They are all natural, enviromentaly friendly, smell great, and work wonderfuly.
http://www.methodhome.com/