Save Your Health and the Environment with Green Cleaning Products
There are many different opinions when it comes to being more eco-friendly and using green cleaning products. For some, it’s simply an added expense that they just can’t afford – but this couldn’t be further from the truth!
It only takes a few simple ingredients to clean all of the different areas around the home and it doesn’t take long to make your own green cleaning products from scratch, which really won’t cost you much at all.
What’s Wrong With Traditional Cleaning Products?
You may not know this, but there is no law in place that forces manufacturers of cleaning products to tell us what they’re made from. Shockingly, many of the chemicals are toxic, unfit for human consumption.
We do consume the cleaning products we use, if indirectly. Every night when we sleep in those clean sheets we are absorbing the washing powder we chose to wash them with. And when we spray anti-bacterial sprays in our kitchens, they are contaminating the air.
Not only are the health risks shocking enough, but we also need to realize that the ingredients are flushed into our water streams, which harms the environment in many different ways. We don’t need to do this!
A Healthy Alternative
If you want to start going green today, then I’m not about to tell you to go out and buy the most expensive products. Wait awhile until you’ve used up the products you do have, and then set aside the plastic spray bottles they come in so that they can store the recipes you make yourself.
There are a number of extremely simple options, such as a wash of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to get rid of mold or you could use lemon juice as an antibacterial cleaner. So simple!
If you don’t have the time to make all of your own cleaning products, then there are still eco-friendly brands available if you look in the supermarket. They can be more expensive, but buying ingredients in bulk will help save you a lot of money. The great news is that some of the natural laundry options will last for hundreds of washes – ultimately working out a lot cheaper!
If you want to go green you don’t have to change everything straight away. Start with your laundry, then move onto another area of your life. Before you know it you’ll never know why you relied on those toxic cleaning products!
Eco friendly cleaning isn’t as difficult as it might first seem. I’ve found many different simple recipes and natural cleaners to help me on my journey towards going green.








