I want to use cleaning products that are healthier for the environment, but I worry that baking soda and the like won’t really get my tub and toilet germ-free. Should I continue using bleach products in the bathroom? When it comes to household cleaning products, most mainstream brands make use of chlorine bleach, ammonia or [...]
There are plenty of toxic products on the market you can buy in order to “clean” your house. But what you may not know is that distilled white vinegar does the job of most of them without any toxicity — and for much cheaper! Using only inexpensive vinegar, water, and a castile soap like Dr. [...]
That low-flow showerhead which was working fine now slowing down to just a trickle? It’s probably because of a build-up of calcium and other minerals in your local water supply. The nozzles get clogged up and water can’t be pushed through them anymore, potentially leaving you standing in a drip-like shower with soap in your [...]
This is a brilliant idea, and I am amazed that it took this long to for something like this to come to market. This new household cleaning product, called “Replenish“, is basically an empty plastic bottle made from PET-1 with a “twist-on” bottom full of concentrated cleaner. You fill the plastic bottle up with water, [...]
While there are all sorts of ways to clean up the germs around the house, most of them are terrible for both you and the environment. Just last week I wrote about how the most common version of “cleaning” is anything but! It is pure insanity that we use the chemicals in these products on [...]
Sadly, the majority of people in the world still use toxic and potentially dangerous chemicals to “clean” their homes with. What I don’t understand, however, is why it’s called “cleaning” when it’s anything but? Toxic ingredients like Butyl Cellosolve, a neurotoxin which causes liver and kidney damage and is found in most cleaners; Cyclodextrin, which [...]
Did you know you might not need to buy toxic specialty cleaners to get the metal items in your house spotless and shiny? Turns out that many common household ingredients can do a fantastic job of polishing up the metal without any chemicals at all. While I highly recommend you try any of these in [...]
