Green Mom’s Carnival: Spring Cleaning

Posted on Mar 13, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Healthy Living, Products, Susie Collins

Twenty-one green mommie bloggers write about their green cleaning tips.

Tiny Choices reports on Green Mom’s Carnival: Spring Cleaning.

Twenty-one green mommie bloggers wrote posts this week on their green cleaning tips. You’ll find links to tons nontoxic cleaning methods, cleanser recipes, info on how to reduce and recycle toxic substances, and lots of ideas for kitchen and bathroom cleaning.

Not all the recipes and techniques are suitable for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, so pick and choose things to try with caution. Green cleaning often includes many essential oils to which sensitized people cannot be exposed (I cannot be around any mint oils, eucalyptus, tea tree oil, pine, and other essential oils often used in green cleaning). But you’ll also find a lot of great ideas and solutions to cleaning without toxic chemicals.

Though the bloggers are united on the subject of green cleaning, their takes on the matter vary wildly– and make for fascinating and insightful reading. Thusly we present to you (in the order of submissions received) the collective works.

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By the way, my favorite all-round nontoxic cleaning solution is pictured above:

2 gallons hot water
1/4 cup borax
1/4 cup vinegar
A squirt of Bronner’s liquid lavender soap (you can sub your favorite liquid soap)

I use it for everything: counter tops, floors, tub, toilet, walls, garbage pails, kitty litter pan, porch floor, mudroom, muddy shoes, everything. It rinses off very easily. You’ll be amazed at what that solution can clean!

If you think even that solution is too much for you, the most basic ingredients for natural, nontoxic cleaning are vinegar, baking soda, and lemon. Period.