The word “green cleaning” can have many different meanings, but the basic purpose of the process is to employ cleaning products and procedures that keep us and our surroundings healthy and toxin-free.
Toxins and chemicals have the ability to cause irreversible harm to our bodies, water, air, and environment.
Green cleaning can refer to utilising environmentally friendly cleaning products or cleaning your home in a way that lowers trash sent to landfills.
Switching to green cleaning products is excellent to your health and well-being, as well as preventing unneeded chemicals from being dumped into the environment.
In an ideal world, we would be able to easily discern which items are harmful to people and the environment.
In the real world, however, evaluating cleaning goods in order to make sound judgments is not always simple.
The difficulty stems primarily from two factors:
Countless products use ambiguous marketing phrases like “eco-friendly” or “natural.”
These are so worthless that the TGA (therapeutic goods administration) has issued instructions cautioning against making broad health and environmental benefits claims.
To thoroughly analyse a product, you must be aware of all of its constituents and how they may interact with one another.
Many corporations do not completely disclose their components, making it impossible to assess the health and environmental implications.
Even if the firm did reveal all contents, you would need to be familiar with the chemicals in order to understand how they interact.
This is the reason we make our own cleaning products. Many of the green cleaning chemicals we use are not currently available for retail. However, you can easily create your own at home with some common products which are safe and green.
Baking soda (or sodium bicarbonate) cleans, deodorises, softens water, and scours.
To keep it dry, store it in a flour shaker.
Borax is a mineral salt that is found in nature.
It deodorises, cleans, bleaches, and disinfects.
Borax is also effective against ants and cockroaches.
(Because it is hazardous, keep it away from children and pets.)
Lemon juice can be used as a light bleach, deodorant, and cleaning agent.
Washing soda dissolves grease and eliminates stains.
White vinegar is also a deodorizer and light disinfectant that cuts through grease.
Combine half and half white vinegar and water in a labelled spray container.
Pure soap is a multi-purpose cleaner that entirely biodegrades.
Eucalyptus oil can be used to clean stains, disinfect, and deodorise.
It removes oil and filth while leaving clothing feeling fresh.
Microfibre cloths easily clean surfaces with simply water.
Multipurpose Cleaner
Warm water coupled with pure soap or white vinegar makes an inexpensive and simple general cleaner that may be used throughout the house.
Toilet Cleaner
To clean non-septic toilet bowls, make a paste of borax and lemon juice.
Ceramic Cleaner
Using a damp cloth, clean the tiles, sinks, toilets, and baths with bicarbonate of soda.
