How To Keep Your Home Clean Naturally

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How to Keep Your Home Clean Naturally

 

 

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

 

 

To clean with natural products all you need is:

Baking soda

Vinegar

Borax

Hydrogen peroxide

Liquid castile soap

Organic essential oils (optional)

Mixing bowls

Spray bottles

Micro fiber cloths

Vodka (optional)

 

 

Baking Soda is great to scrub your bath and kitchen. Put it in a

glass grated cheese container with a stainless steel top that has

holes in it, and just sprinkle the baking soda on the surfaces and

scrub. You may add a few drops of your favorite essential oil to

this. Lavender and tea tree oil have anti-bacterial qualities.

 

 

Baking soda mixed with apple cider vinegar is a bubbly combination

that has many uses. As a drain cleaner, sprinkle baking soda down the

drain then add apple cider vinegar and let it bubble for 15 minutes,

then rinse with hot water. This is a safer alternative to dangerous

drain cleaners. Baking soda and apple cider make a wonderful spa-like

bath for soaking away aches and pains and detoxing. It also cleans

the tub and the drain.

 

 

Baking soda can also be used as a fabric softener in your laundry.

 

 

To polish silver, instead of using toxic silver polish, fill your

kitchen sink with hot water, add a sheet of aluminum foil and baking

soda, and let the silver pieces soak until clean. It is an easy and

fun way to clean silver.

 

 

Vinegar can clean almost anything in your house; you can add liquid

castile soap, essential oil (optional), and filtered water, then

clean floors, windows, bath, kitchen, etc. Vinegar can also be used

as a fabric softener. Never use dryer sheets -- they are toxic too.

In the laundry, use vinegar in the wash cycle to prevent fabrics from

fading.

 

 

Commercial window cleaners contain butyl cellosolve -- a toxic

ingredient that is not listed on the labels, so vinegar and water is

much safer. Use a micro fabric cloth, not newspaper, which contains

toxic dyes.

 

 

Borax is a good laundry booster and cleaner (it can even remove mold)

-- and is safe and non-toxic.

 

 

Hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant, and is safer to use than

chlorine bleach for disinfecting and whitening. Lemon juice is also a

natural whitener.

 

 

Liquid Castile Soaps can be found in health food stores and are safer

than commercial liquid cleaning products.

 

 

Organic essential oils may be used in homemade cleaning products

depending on your personal preference and tolerance to these scents.

Never use synthetic fragrances or air cleaners.

 

 

Commercial fabric refreshers also contain dangerous chemicals,

therefore, use vodka in a spray bottle to freshen up chairs and

upholstery. The vodka is cheaper, non-toxic and the alcohol

evaporates, and is not harmful. The alcohol in hand sanitizers is

harmful, however, and should not be used on children since the

alcohol absorbs into your body via your skin. Therefore, use only

hand sanitizers that are plant based from the health food store, or

just good old soap and water.

 

 

Making your own natural cleaning products is rewarding and fun, and

you can use the natural scents that you prefer while ensuring that

your home is safe from dangerous chemicals that are harmful to your,

and your family's, health.

 

 

Sources:

Jeanne McLaughlin, International Institute for Bau-Biologie and

Ecology

 

 

www.mercola.com

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Excerpt

How to Keep Your Home Clean Naturally

 

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

 

To clean with natural products all you need is:

Baking soda

Vinegar

Borax

Hydrogen peroxide

Liquid castile soap

Organic essential oils (optional)

Mixing bowls

Spray bottles

Micro fiber cloths

Vodka (optional)

 

Baking Soda is great to scrub your bath and kitchen. Put it in a

glass grated cheese container with a stainless steel top that has

holes in it, and just sprinkle the baking soda on the surfaces and

scrub. You may add a few drops of your favorite essential oil to

this. Lavender and tea tree oil have anti-bacterial qualities.

 

Baking soda mixed with apple cider vinegar is a bubbly combination

that has many uses. As a drain cleaner, sprinkle baking soda down the

drain then add apple cider vinegar and let it bubble for 15 minutes,

then rinse with hot water. This is a safer alternative to dangerous

drain cleaners. Baking soda and apple cider make a wonderful spa-like

bath for soaking away aches and pains and detoxing. It also cleans

the tub and the drain.

 

Baking soda can also be used as a fabric softener in your laundry.

 

To polish silver, instead of using toxic silver polish, fill your

kitchen sink with hot water, add a sheet of aluminum foil and baking

soda, and let the silver pieces soak until clean. It is an easy and

fun way to clean silver.

 

Vinegar can clean almost anything in your house; you can add liquid

castile soap, essential oil (optional), and filtered water, then

clean floors, windows, bath, kitchen, etc. Vinegar can also be used

as a fabric softener. Never use dryer sheets -- they are toxic too.

In the laundry, use vinegar in the wash cycle to prevent fabrics from

fading.

 

Commercial window cleaners contain butyl cellosolve -- a toxic

ingredient that is not listed on the labels, so vinegar and water is

much safer. Use a micro fabric cloth, not newspaper, which contains

toxic dyes.

 

Borax is a good laundry booster and cleaner (it can even remove mold)

-- and is safe and non-toxic.

 

Hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant, and is safer to use than

chlorine bleach for disinfecting and whitening. Lemon juice is also a

natural whitener.

 

Liquid Castile Soaps can be found in health food stores and are safer

than commercial liquid cleaning products.

 

Organic essential oils may be used in homemade cleaning products

depending on your personal preference and tolerance to these scents.

Never use synthetic fragrances or air cleaners.

 

Commercial fabric refreshers also contain dangerous chemicals,

therefore, use vodka in a spray bottle to freshen up chairs and

upholstery. The vodka is cheaper, non-toxic and the alcohol

evaporates, and is not harmful. The alcohol in hand sanitizers is

harmful, however, and should not be used on children since the

alcohol absorbs into your body via your skin. Therefore, use only

hand sanitizers that are plant based from the health food store, or

just good old soap and water.

 

Making your own natural cleaning products is rewarding and fun, and

you can use the natural scents that you prefer while ensuring that

your home is safe from dangerous chemicals that are harmful to your,

and your family's, health.

 

Sources:

Jeanne McLaughlin, International Institute for Bau-Biologie and

Ecology

 

www.mercola. com

 

 

 

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