Comments on: Green Cleaning Your Kitchen and Foodspace

By: Metroknow - AlmostFit.com

Metroknow - AlmostFit.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:40:08 +0000

It’s funny – I’ve been really working on reducing our household budget on food, primarily by growing our own organic produce, making things from scratch, and so forth, but I hadn’t even considered the cleaning products.

I am doing this!

On Borax, I can’t address the safety really (although from everything I’ve read it is not nearly as toxic as the chemical equivalents), but one other really good use for it is as a natural ant bait. If you create a sugar-water dilution with 5% borax (no more than that), it is relatively harmless to most everything but ants – the 5% idea is so that the ant will make it back to the nest, share the food, and in theory, knock out the ant hill. It’s worked this year for us.

Thanks for the great post!
Metroknow
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By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:06:15 +0000

Joy,

Great article. I have found that you can clean almost anything with baking soda and/or vinegar. Non-toxic, safe for the environment and affordable. I think our generation has been overly influenced with marketing and advertising, which has made us belief that we need expensive products full of chemicals in order to get things really clean.

One of my favorite uses of baking soda is as an oven cleaner. Oven cleaning products are SO toxic and the fumes are nauseating. I tried cleaning the oven this way a couple of weeks ago and it worked great!

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/nontoxic-oven-cleaner.html

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By: joy

joy — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:30:58 +0000

Hillary — You’re welcome. Just doing my part in spreading the green word. :)

By: Hillary

Hillary — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:04:36 +0000

Thanks for encouraging us all to be more green! Hillarys last blog post..Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode 11

By: joy

joy — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:23:12 +0000

Ben — Yup! I read about the ‘roaches. Eeek. I haven’t encountered one here yet. **crosses fingers**

Karen Swim — I know. After all these years of New! Improved! cleaning products, the only things we really need are the basics.

Kate — I’m currently using the bar soap and so far it’s good. Thanks for that link. What a great resource.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:10:09 +0000

I’m a recent convert to Dr. Bronner’s soap, so I’m glad to find these tips and the recipe. As for Green Spa or Home Spa recipes, there is a treasure trove of spa recipes you can make in your own kitchen, here: http://www.spaindex.com/HomeSpa/HomeSpa.htm

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By: Karen Swim

Karen Swim — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:54:32 +0000

These are great tips! It's funny that the products used by our mothers and grandmothers are now turning out to be not only effective but environmentally friendly! My mother grew up using Castile soap for cleaning but as I was growing up it wasn't always as easy to find. We also used vinegar and baking soda for many cleaning tasks. Who knew that one day progress would mean returning to the products of old. Karen Swims last blog post..Three Tactics for Managing Roadblocks On Your Road to Success

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:37:03 +0000

I am surprised how well these homemade cleaning products work. I just made one with vinegar and baking soda for the bathroom that was just amazing. I will try this one for my next cleaning spree in a couple of months. Did you know that borax is also very effective in the war against roaches? Bens last blog post..Lamb Wellington (kind of)