Green Cleaner?

Have you wonder how much chemical we dumped into the drain everyday at our house? These chemicals can be dangerous to our health and our environment. Also, many of these chemicals are not biodegradable. When they accumulate, they can turn into toxic and can damage our body.

Some of these dangers stay around your house without knowing it. The most common danger is solvents. Solvents, used to dissolve fats, oils, and grease, can be found in paint, cleaners, and furniture polishes. Another other common compound is called formaldehyde. Formaldehyde can be found in carpet, cushions, furniture, and even bed sheets. These Volatile Organic Compound, or VOC, can be dangerous to our health causing skin, lung, and eye irritation. Because they are derived from petroleum and coal tars, long term exposure can cause long term health problems such as asthma and cancer. A simplest way to detect if you have inhaled VOCs is if you have a headache. Make sure you open the window for ventilation and stop using these chemicals.

What is the solution to prevent us from smelling hazardous chemical? The answer is simple. To treat oganic matter, we should use organic matter. For thousands of years, we use natural ingredients to clean our home. Maybe we can pick up that trend again in the 21st centry and make some homemade cleaner to prevent us from polluting the environment and is also good to our health.

Here are some nautural ingredients I found useful.

• Distilled white vinegar. Vinegar disinfect all types of surfaces. It can also be used to remove grease and fabric softener.
• Hydrogen peroxide. Not only it can wash away blood, it can be a bleach and also deodorizes.
• Hot water + lemons, + sunlight. Lemon and sunlight can sanitize clothes and surfaces. Lemon can also cut grease and smells.
• Baking soda. A good detergent. It removes odor.

If you want to know more about green cleaning. This site can help you. It has instructions on how to make cleaners for different types of surfaces. But make sure to be careful when mixing abrasive materials. Always use cautions! I have made the glass cleaner from this website and I think it works great. I didn't have to spend anything extra to buy all my ingredients because I already have them at my house. The bottle? I use my old hairspay bottle. I saved a bottle's life as much as saving a trip to buy hazardous chemicals to clean my window!