CLEAN GREEN
Choose household products that are good for cleaning, but won’t harm your health or the environment.
There are a number of non-toxic cleaners on the market that are priced comparably to the conventional cleaners, but that use plant-based ingredients instead of the bleach and petroleum-derived solvents that can lead to health and environmental effects.
If you’d like to avoid commercial products all together, you could save about $25 per year by making your own cleaning solutions out of vinegar, baking soda, castile soap, cornstarch, and lemon juice. For recipes check out the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition at www.checnet.org/HealtheHouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=564
If every household replaced one bottle of toxic cleaner with a homemade or non-toxic variety, we would collectively save about 25 million gallons of chemicals out of our homes and bodies.
Americans spend roughly $2.7 billion annually on surface cleaning products alone.
Manufacturers of cleaners are not required to list ingredients on their labels, so there’s no way to tell whether or not they’re hazardous.
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