How to Keep a Home Clean With Environment Friendly Products

Parents are always warned to keep dangerous and poisonous fluids, including cleaning material, locked up so kids won't get at them. Parents never want their children to be around a wet floor or near an item that can impair their breathing. However, they often don't take the same precautions for themselves. Using everyday items can fix both of those dilemmas.

Things You'll Need

• Vinegar
• Lemon juice
• Toilet brush
• Baking soda
• Vegetable oil
• Mild soap
• Cedar chips
• Lavendar flowers
• Mint
• Microfiber cloth
• Sponge
• Rag or towel
• Green bags

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Instructions

• 1

  Dampen a microfiber cloth with water and run it across your mirrors to clean them. Microfiber cloths do not leave streaks and clean toothpaste spots easily from your bathroom mirror and fingerprints or other chemicals from any other mirror in your home. To dry off the mirrors, use the other side of the cloth. By only using water, this cloth can be used repeatedly and is easily washable.

• 2

  Put your fruit in environmentally friendly bags. This helps eliminate extra plastic from grocery store bags and keeps your fruit ripe. These bags can be used repeatedly and tied easily. It's an opportunity to recycle, keep your refrigerator drawers cleaner and your fruit longer.

• 3

  Use a toilet brush sprinkled with baking soda or vinegar to clean your toilet.

• 4

  Mix one teaspoon of lemon juice and one pint of vegetable oil on a rag to polish furniture. It leaves the same smell as your average wood polish.

• 5

  Sprinkle baking soda on your carpet to deodorize it and vacuum it after 15 minutes. Baking soda is also a useful way of killing roaches.

• 6

  Pour 1/2 cup of baking soda and 1/2 cup of vinegar in your clogged drains, and after 15 minutes, pour boiling water down the same drain. This bubbling mixture helps to clean your drain without the expensive plumber.

• 7

  Wipe plant leaves with soap and water and rinse them off, and water them as you usually would. By doing this, you give every leaf more attention and ideally you won't develop dead leaves.

• 8

  Place cedar chips, lavendar flowers or mint in different areas of your home, such as in clothes drawers, closets and floor corners.