You don’t even need to be that concerned about the future of the planet (though why on earth wouldn’t you be?) either.  Much that is ‘green’ is also frugal and healthy.  Avoiding exposure to harmful chemicals is just as important for you, your kids and pets, as it is for the micro-organisms residing in our water-ways.

Personally I don’t really think it matters what your motivations are, so long as you do something to rely less heavily on bleaches and harmful disinfectants that do nobody any good at all.  Yes your toilet bowl might shine so bright you feel satisfied you are doing your job of keeping house and home spic and span.  But at what cost?

Re-evaluating your routines, and changing just one thing a month, to something a little more environmentally friendly will do you the world of good, as the one responsible for keeping the home clean too.  You don’t really want to be breathing in all those toxic fumes do you?

By looking for traditional ways to tackle the chores you can avoid both dangerous products, and also expensive ones too.  There are so many cheap cleaning options; from baking soda to scrub the bath tub, to white vinegar to disinfect your counter tops.  You don’t have to pay much for the greenest cleaners, and you don’t have to have a closet full of bottles you would rather your children didn’t get hold of.

And don’t think your new flower scented, organic product with its pretty green bottle is necessarily the best option either.  Think more basic than that.  You need to aim for:

• Non toxic cleaners
• No chlorine bleach
• Concentrated cleaners
• Recyclable packaging
• Readily bio-degradable ingredients
• Safe to use – and that means often choosing items designed to be used in the work-place, since they must pass far more stringent health and safety requirements as far as user exposure is concerned

More basic things to consider are:

• Using less water to rinse those products away
• Avoiding irritants (even natural ones) such as citrus oils
• What cloths / sponges etc are you using – can they be recycled or re-used?
• How sterile does your home really need to be?  There is far too much emphasis on doing away with every bacteria or germ in the home.  In some cases this is a must, but most of us live far more healthy allergy free lives if we come into some contact with these naturally occurring organisms.

Enjoy your clean home but not to the expense of your health (or indeed the planets), and make at least one change today towards more Environmentally aware green cleaning.

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Whilst some people are more than happy with a splash of vinegar or some baking soda to clean the bathroom you may find such homemade remedies simply don’t fit into your hectic schedule or your normal cleaning routine.  Try them, you might well be surprised.  And, even if you don’t use these ultimate green cleaners for all your household chores, if they save you from the evils of bleach or chlorine based products only for one task they will help.

Trying new ways to do our ordinary housework is best done in stages.  If you try to re-work your entire cleaning regime you are far more likely to fail, become discouraged and ultimately return to your old ways.  Far better to change one thing.  Find a green cleaner you are happy to use and then tackle the next chore or type of product you use.

Being more environmentally friendly has to be a gradual process for most of us bought up using and abusing the earth’s resources.  We may know we should re-vamp our whole lifestyles but frankly that just isn’t likely to happen for more than a tiny minority of die hard eco warriors.  Rather than be deterred by your inability to alter everything, do one thing, and do it well, be happy with your choices, enjoy the satisfaction of knowing you are ever so slightly more green than you used to be, and you will be encouraged by that one small success to change other aspects of your household chores, or indeed your life too.

Baby steps are what we should be thinking about, because even if you can afford to use organic, natural everything unless you use those products wisely and really think about their impact on the planet, through using resources, transportation and water etc you may as well just use a little less but continue with your old traditional products.

Green cleaning products have to suit you and your routine.  So when thinking about making the change pick one product and do something about the nasty polluting or dangerous version in your closet.  When you have found a great green alternative that keeps you happy in your routine and is Eco enough for you move on to the next.

Most of us simply cannot be perfect, and frankly even if we were you just know some new scare or new story will make us realise that perfection was far from true.  So stop sweating about everything and just do something, anything to make your cleaning just a little bit more Eco Friendly today.

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My guess, not many.  After all, most of us rarely even read such tiny instructions or warnings do we.  We tend to assume that if something is sold to us it simply must be safe.  But, though generally it is pretty easy not to kill yourself with multi-surface kitchen cleaner, all these products do have potential health risks.  It isn’t just the concern about toddlers drinking things they really shouldn’t either (though household cleaners are the main cause of child poisonings today).  No, the issue is how we use them and what we use them with.

Most cleaners will tell you that they should be used only in a well ventilated space.  But lets be honest here, how many of our guest bathrooms are well ventilated?  Ditto the oven and most of us do not own really great breathing apparatus, nor would we wear it when cleaning the oven?  But, fail to follow the rules and you will definitely be breathing in far more of the fumes from your products than that deemed safe in their product testing.

If your eyes are running, you start sneezing or your skin is irritated can you really be happy about what is going on inside?  Much better to choose greener cleaning products that are more mild to you who uses them.  This is one of the reasons the Simple Green Cleaner range has done so extraordinarily well.  After all, they are far from the most environmentally friendly ranges available.  But, what they do have is a history of being used as workplace cleaners.  Firstly this means that however green they are there first job is to be efficient.  The second issue is that to be sold as industrial workplace cleaning products requires passing far more stringent safety legislation than anything used in the home.  So, though they may have their detractors they are generally some of the safest cleaning products for you to be using, as far as your own health is concerned.

On the whole Green Cleaning Products are better for you, as well as for the earth.  Relying less on harmful irritants means they are less likely to lead to health issues for those who use them.  But, even if you use the most natural cleaner on the market do think about how you use them.  Leave all natural vegetable soap on your skin and it will damage it, drying it with its alkaline nature.  Vinegar may be the mildest antibacterial cleaner going but you wouldn’t want to inhale it when mixed with baking soda.

Green Cleaning Products are better for you and the earth, but only if you break the habit of a lifetime and read those instructions every now and again.  And, think very carefully before using two different products together.  The reaction to products mixing can be very different to when used alone.

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You will really need to study the labels to ensure you purchase a green cleaning product that is up to your personal ‘green’ standards.  Maybe you want less toxic, more easily disposed of cleaners.  Or perhaps you want ‘all natural’ ingredients.  You may have keen interest in packaging; how easy it is to recycle, whether it is produced from post consumer recycled materials to begin with, or is it plastic free (a pretty tough one this).  For some the avoidance of petrochemicals is a must, or maybe you just want some super mild to protect your babies skin when you are dealing with the laundry.

The options are huge and to be honest no one range is likely to appeal to everyone.  We all have compromises to make between being less harmful to the environment, and our standards of cleanliness.  You must choose green cleaning products that are exactly right for you and your lifestyle.

An easy way to know exactly what ingredients are going into your green cleaning supplies is to use homemade remedies.  Now very few of us have time to create all our own cleaning materials.  But, switching one or two key items from pre-made formula to home-made Eco clean recipe can be done easily and with little trouble on your part.  If nothing else use baking soda to deodorize your garbage pail rather than usually extremely toxic deodorizer sprays.  Or ditch the windolene in favor of some vinegar and a microfiber cloth.  A few homemade recipes can really cut costs to your pocket and the planet and are a great way to supplement your other less than perfect green cleaning products.

Our desire to make cleaning Eco friendly and live more sustainable, less polluting lifestyles, is a noble one.  But we have to be realistic here and never forget that even one product changed is a help.  Choose or make one Green Cleaning Product today and who knows, next month you may choose another until by next year perhaps all your household chores are more environmentally friendly?

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