Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Cleaning
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My aching back. How do people over 30 bear children? I feel 40 today. Time to dig up the prenatal yoga video, it does a sore expanding body good.
Here are the tips on cleaning that I have picked up over the years as well as a few from the "Living More with Less". A few basic principles apply. If you buy the normal bottles of cleaning items from your Wal Mrt isle, you are 1- spending way too much. 2 - using environmentally un-friendly substances. 3 - filling your home with an unneccesary amount of unhealthy toxins. 4 - wasting resources with each new plastic bottle.
I am personally currently using Shaklee cleaning products because they are, for environmentally and health conscious products, pretty cheap. Shaklee distributers can be found online and they will ask you to become a member, but I never did. I just bought a quart of the solutions at non-member price (about $13 for the general cleaners) and they are still 2/3 full after two years! They come in concentrate and you just add about an ounce per spray bottle. I use the basic G cleaner (all purpose and windows) and basic I disinfectant for bathrooms. They work great. Shaklee has a virety of other great products, they were just too expensive for me to purchase, yet.
Orange oil, sold at organic garden centers, is both a great cleaner for grease and kitchen as well as kills all ants on contacts. Plus, how healthy is orange oil!? It is a bit more spendy.
I am still working on finding cheaper, healthier, more responsible options for laundry. so far anything more environmental is too expensive for me to splurge on. I do use 1/3 less detergent than called for and add baking soda to the laundry and everything turns out clean and bright. Baking soda is a great, cheap, healthy cleaner. Use it as a scrub for your kitchen sink (gently).
Anyway, just some ideas. Below is the information I found from that book. I hesitate to use ammonia as much as they suggest, because it is toxic. But it is definately a cheap option.
Hold that thought - I haven't had time to add these ideas yet. I will come and post them tomorrow.
Here are the tips on cleaning that I have picked up over the years as well as a few from the "Living More with Less". A few basic principles apply. If you buy the normal bottles of cleaning items from your Wal Mrt isle, you are 1- spending way too much. 2 - using environmentally un-friendly substances. 3 - filling your home with an unneccesary amount of unhealthy toxins. 4 - wasting resources with each new plastic bottle.
I am personally currently using Shaklee cleaning products because they are, for environmentally and health conscious products, pretty cheap. Shaklee distributers can be found online and they will ask you to become a member, but I never did. I just bought a quart of the solutions at non-member price (about $13 for the general cleaners) and they are still 2/3 full after two years! They come in concentrate and you just add about an ounce per spray bottle. I use the basic G cleaner (all purpose and windows) and basic I disinfectant for bathrooms. They work great. Shaklee has a virety of other great products, they were just too expensive for me to purchase, yet.
Orange oil, sold at organic garden centers, is both a great cleaner for grease and kitchen as well as kills all ants on contacts. Plus, how healthy is orange oil!? It is a bit more spendy.
I am still working on finding cheaper, healthier, more responsible options for laundry. so far anything more environmental is too expensive for me to splurge on. I do use 1/3 less detergent than called for and add baking soda to the laundry and everything turns out clean and bright. Baking soda is a great, cheap, healthy cleaner. Use it as a scrub for your kitchen sink (gently).
Anyway, just some ideas. Below is the information I found from that book. I hesitate to use ammonia as much as they suggest, because it is toxic. But it is definately a cheap option.
Hold that thought - I haven't had time to add these ideas yet. I will come and post them tomorrow.
1 Comments:
At 7/28/2005 2:58 PM,
texashimalaya said…
Hi Lexie! - I haven't read anything about them healthwise, but as a general rule, synthetic and chemical things aren't good for you. From an environmental view, they are plastic and so create "eternal waste" and they use electricity. I prefer candles which won't litter dumps for mellinnea to come and also create atmosphere. I like to buy locally made candles to support "cottage industry" and individual people as well. What makes me so excited about "responsible living" is that even my small actions and choices can take on meaning and be an opportunity to express to others how I care and how God cares.
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