Save Money, and the Earth, with Homemade Cleaners

Last week we discussed how toxic many household products are (so toxic that they are routinely referred to as hazardous household waste) and how to safely remove them from your home. This week we want to share some inexpensive and simple recipes so you can make earth-friendly replacements for those items.

We’ll start with cleaning supplies.

Conventional cleaning supplies: Homemade cleaning products can get your home just as clean as conventional products for far less money and with far less toxic exposure. They also smell better! Here are recipes for a few multi-tasking items. Read more

Book Review for “Clean House, Clean Planet”

We weren’t totally happy with our conventional cleaning products – many were “stinky” as our daughter succinctly put it and they sure cost a lot – but we didn’t give the subject much thought at first. Then we read that the Environmental Protection Agency ranks indoor air pollution as one of the top five environmental risks to public health, in large part due to the chemicals found in traditional cleaning products, and finding greener alternatives moved to the top of our to do list. Read more