Health Tips - Cleaning Products
Whatever you clean with ends up in your body through daily contact with your home’s surfaces. If you shouldn’t ingest or come in contact with the chemicals in a cleaning product in any dilution, don’t use it in your home. What body needs toxic and aging chemicals?
What are the Healthiest Products to Clean your Home with?
- Distilled vinegar in water works on windows, floors, chrome surfaces, etc. Use straight to help soften hard water deposits in your shower or toilet.
- Baking soda works on tubs, counters, sinks and most oven dirt. Use it straight or add 1⁄2 cup into 1 gallon of warm water for an all-purpose cleaner. It can also be used to take smells out of a carpet by pouring it onto the carpet and vacuuming up the next day.
- Inexpensive vodka or Everclear grain alcohol can be used as a disinfectant for cutting boards, toilet seats, cat litter boxes, etc.
- Try 20% hydrogen peroxide on mildewed bathroom surfaces. Let sit overnight before wiping. Three percent hydrogen peroxide works well to kill mold growing on windows, plastic surfaces or drywall. It is also a disenfectant, although not as effective as alcohol.
- Carbonated water helps take fresh stains out of carpets.
Most of these items are sold in bulk sizes at Costco and are dirt cheap.
Have fun sprucing up your space!
Dr. Pepi
April 29, 2008