Now that you’ve learned eco-friendly and non-toxic ways to clean your kitchen, let’s work on ‘greening’ your laundry room. No, not literally green; no green paint involved here! I want to share some simple ways to clean your clothes without harmful detergents, too much water use, and too much energy use. And as with cleaning [...]

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Since the kitchen is where food is prepared, stored, and enjoyed it requires frequent cleaning. But as you learned in my previous post, there are many dangers associated with common cleaning products. Thankfully, it is so easy and inexpensive to make your own non-toxic cleaning solutions using common products you may already have. Today I [...]

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Most Americans spend 90% of their time indoors and, thanks to tightly sealed homes and workplaces, the concentration of pollutants indoors may be even higher than outdoors. Why? Because many of the cleaning products we use contain chemicals that release volatile organic compounds. The typical American home contains 3-10 GALLONS of toxic materials, and uses [...]

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