Greener Cleaners

Now that you’ve put a lot of effort into your green kitchen design, you don’t want to fill it up with harmful toxic cleaners, do you? Unfortunately, many traditional cleaners are made from petroleum based products and as we all know petroleum is not a renewable resource. Not only that but it’s harmful to the environment into your health.  So how can you find Greener cleaners for your kitchen?

One thing you can do is go natural. Some of the best cleaners are probably in your cupboards right now and these include vinegar and baking soda.  Mix in either one of these with water will give you a wonderful and natural cleaner and baking soda is a great deodorizer or for the home you can toss out those toxic plug-ins and just use baking soda.

But for those of you that like to have your cleaners come premade, there are actually quite a few choices today and as the demand for green cleaning products grows, there will be many more and the future.

One green cleaning products that’s been around for generations is Bon Ami, this widely recognizable product comes in a cylindrical container and is simply calcium carbonate.  It’s biodegradable and contains no toxic ingredients like perfumes or dyes.  Another cleaner you might be familiar with his Borax.  The unlikely name makes it sound like it’s filled with chemicals however it has just one ingredient sodium tetraborate decahydrate which is safe to use and does not contain chlorine or phosphates.

One of the “newer”products called Simple Green has actually been around for over 30 years. It comes in an easy-to-use spray bottle filled with green liquid.  The company actually has a huge range of environmental he finally cleaning products that can be used to clean just about anything.

If you take a trip through grocery store, you probably find a variety of green cleaning products on the shelves. Be sure to read the labels so you pick one that really is green and you be helping your family’s health as well as the environment.

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