If healthy and Green living is part of your New Year Resolutions, then you probably have in mind balanced diet or exercising more in 2017. But healthy lifestyle doesn’t end with sports or food. There are some changes that can be made in other aspects of your everyday life as well. And the way you clean and maintain your home is one of them.
Keen Clean experts share a few healthier ways to do the chores at home. And the best thing is – all of them are beneficial not only for you but for the environment as well!
When you make your own cleaners you don’t need to use gloves.
Make Your Own Green Cleaning Products
We have already posted here an extensive, two-part article covering the various toxic ingredients in our everyday Cleaning products. You can read it here and here. All-purpose and oven cleaners, air-fresheners, and even – antibacterial soaps consist ingredients that can harm our health.
We know, that in some cases using a heavy-duty cleaning product is the only way to get rid of dirt and bacteria. However, there are some recipes for green homemade cleaners that are as effective as the ones you buy in the store. Here are a few suggestions from our blog:
3 Ways to Clean with Salt
6 Home Cleaning Tricks with Lemons
10 Surprising Uses of Toothpaste for Your Home
5 DIY Oven Green Cleaning Recipes
Add a few drops of citrus oil to your steamer and the room will smell great after cleaning.
Invest in a Steam Cleaner
Steamers are one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly tools to clean and disinfect anything in your home. You can use it for tiles, mattresses, carpets, upholstery, kitchen countertops, toilets and bathrooms! These machines spray extremely hot water under high pressure and easily remove dirt, dust and kill bacteria.
This is why it is not surprising that even professional carpet cleaners use them to deal with particularly dirty upholstery and rugs. When you clean with a steamer in most of the cases you don’t even need to add any cleaning product! The hot vapours are enough to deal with dirt and microbes.
Small children have more vulnerable skin than adults.
Switch to Green Laundry Detergent
If you often suffer from redness, rashes, or dermatitis, changing your Laundry Detergent with a green one is first of the steps you can do to ease your condition and calm your skin. Moreover, eco-friendly products are highly recommended if you have a baby or toddler at home. Small children’ skin is more vulnerable to ingredients, found in common laundry liquids and compounds. If you want to take this step further, you can even make your own laundry detergent!
Check also:
How to Remove Berry Stains Fast and Easy
How to Save Energy and Go Green When Washing the Dishes
DIY Green Laundry Detergent Recipe:
Washing soda, borax and castile soap are all you need for a clean laundry.
1 part borax
1 part washing soda
½ part finely ground castile soap
Mix everything together and use as usual! If you want you can add a few drops of essential oil to give your laundry your favourite aroma, but this step isn’t mandatory. You can also replace the commercial fabric softener with white distilled vinegar.
These are just a few of the steps you can make to embrace a green way of living. They are easy, inexpensive, and can have a huge impact on your health.
At last, but not least, you can always rely on us if you need professional service for heavy-duty tasks like deep carpet cleaning or upholstery cleaning. We work with powerful equipment and environmentally friendly products in order to provide the best service for all our clients.
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