Green Cleaning

Top 3 Fastest & Easiest ways to Cleaning Shower Glass Doors

Spotty shower glass doors ruin the entire look of your bathroom.  If you know how to clean these doors the easy and green way, it is a breeze to keep the bathroom glass doors and your bathroom looking as good as new and ultra clean. Mildew Solutions Mildew forming on the corners of the shower glass doors is not just a messy sight, it is dangerous too.  If left untreated it can trigger severe allergies and cause other deadly ailments.  To prevent mildew from growing, always wipe the glass shower doors dry with a towel after you shower and leave the doors ajar to allow air to circulate. If the area is prone to mildew, spray the glass doors and the other mildew-prone areas with a disinfectant.  Treat the shower doors and the bathroom area with a fifty-fifty solution of water and hydrogen peroxide. Peroxide is safe; there is no danger of harming your lungs and the environment.  Do this every six months. Keeping glass shower doors dry and removing mildew and prevents them from growing and sticking stubbornly to bathroom surfaces. Remove Water Spots Shower glass doors will take a lot of beating from water splashes.  There is no way you can prevent this but ...

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Clothes Dryer Efficiency Tips & Forgotten Alternatives

Save energy and go green when washing your clothes.  Utilize with the spin dryer, which provides you with the high speed centrifuge for all your clothes.  Place your clothes in the spin dryer after the washing machine has taken out most of the water.  The dryer utilizes the same energy no matter how damp the clothing, thus improving the overall washing efficiency. The high speed provided by the dryer removes any additional cleaning chemicals, thus relieving your skin of irritability brought on by contact with the cleaning chemicals.  This small adjustment will extend the life of your clothing.  Hold on to your favorite clothes and linens longer and save money at the shopping mall. Cleaning the lint filter after each use is an important habit to start in order to prolong the life of your dryer.  Exercise restraint when tempted to stuff your dryer to the brim with all of your laundry.  When you overload the dryer, you deny the inside of the dryer the necessary air to circulate between your clothing.  The extra space in the dryer allows your clothing the proper space it needs to have the most effective exposure to the heat/air.  If possible, open a window or door ...

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Green Ways to Clean Bed Pillows

A surprising number of us find ourselves out on our own without some basic pieces of information.  For instance, what do you do when your pillows get dirty? They're pretty cheap, and it's easy to think that you're supposed to throw them out and buy new ones, but that's incredibly wasteful.  Over the years, you'll spend a lot on new pillows, and you'll be doing some real damage to the world around you.  Throwing your pillows out is silly, but many people do it because they don't know how to clean them.  Let's take a look at the alternative to tossing your bedding. It's remarkably easy to keep your pillows clean, and doesn't take all that much effort.  You don't have to wash them each time you do your sheets.  Once a season should be adequate.  If you or someone in your household has allergies, however, it might be worthwhile to launder your pillows more often, since they can host dust mites and other allergens.  Here's how to keep your pillows clean. Wash pillows without pillowcases or protective coverings on them.  These should be washed in hot water, separately.  Look at the pillow tag to find out what your pillow is filled ...

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Make Your Own Eco Friendly Disinfectants at Home

If you are buying disinfectants from the store, you may be exposing yourself and your family to various harmful chemicals.  The problem with these store bought disinfectants is that when you use them at home too much, they can make the bacteria resistant to those chemicals that you are using, which create super bacteria.  Using heavy disinfectants can create super strains of bacteria like staph, which then become resistant to most antibiotics.  The good news is that there are some greener alternatives that you can use in your home for disinfecting purposes. Great Green Alternatives to Use You can make your own eco friendly disinfectants in your home.  It's easy to make these disinfectants from home and it's pretty cheap as well.  One great option you have is to make a nice green disinfectant to use around your home by using water and a bit of eucalyptus oil.  This oil can be purchased at health stores and other stores that sell herbal essential oils. All you'll need is a liter of water and 1.6 ounces of the eucalyptus oil.  Shake this up well to make sure you have it well mixed together.  Then once you have it all ...

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Toilet Paper and the Environment

Let's admit it.  In our pre-environmentalist days, we used toilet paper without thinking about the negative impact it may have on the environment.  We just wipe our bottoms with it after doing our business in the toilet, place it in the toilet bowl, flush our human and paper wastes down the septic tank, and forget about it.  (There is also the matter of using too much water in our flushes but that's another material for another article) Did you know that with every tissue roll we consume, we might be signaling the death of yet another tree and in a virgin forest, at that?  Yes, many of us may not know of this fact, of which this article will seek to remedy. Softest Toilet Paper = Swaths of Virgin Forest Especially in the United States, there is too much emphasis on using the extra-soft, multi-ply and quilted toilet paper.  Supposedly, it makes for a better wiping experience, thanks in no small part to the aggressive marketing promotions of toilet paper manufacturers. Unfortunately, said extra-soft toilet paper is manufactured from millions of trees from a virgin forest.   And not just any virgin forest either as the forests of Canada are ...

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