Learning non-toxic cleaning techniques can be beneficial to the enviorment and to your family or home as well. Why would we want to learn these techniques? Wouldn't you want to know how to save money, protect your health, reduce your use of valuable resources of the earth, avoid petroleum products and other non-renewable resources? Plus, most chemical products we have under our kitchen sinks eventually go into our drinking water stream, which has cancer causing chemicals. Just as antibiotics are causing drug resistance, so too are disinfectants. Here are few eco-friendly tip that really work.
To clean and deodorize your dishwasher try adding a cup of vinegar to your empty dishwasher and run the cycle. Also add vinegar to the rinse dispenser instead of jet dry for streak free dishes.
Mix equal parts hot water with white distilled vinegar in a spray bottle to clean windows. Dry with a soft cloth for streak-free windows!
You can shine up your chrome fixtures with lemon and salt.
Hanging your laundry out to dry will save you money, and can even extend the life of your clothes.
Vinegar should be used to clean hard water stains and soap scum from your bathtub, sinks, shower and your toilet. It sanitizes as well as cleans. Dilute the vinegar with water or use it full strength.
You can remove most coffee or juice stains with a little hydrogen peroxide in water, plus a few drops of ammonia, according to kitchen designer Florence Perchuk. For everyday wear and tear of your stone countertops, buff away small scratches with superfine dry steel wool called "grade 0000."
To clean a cast-iron pan, add 2 tablespoons of oil and place on medium heat. Once the pan is heated, pour in 3 tablespoons of salt. Next, using a tong to hold a paper towel, scour until clean. Finally, rinse and coat with vegetable oil to cure. Done!
If your hand doesn't fit down a narrow vase, then fill it halfway with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets to do the dirty work for you.
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