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Are there any green/enviro friendly cleaning products that you have really liked or found to be surprisingly good? Any that actually seem to work better than the "regular" ones?
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Faithful reader,
Our favorite is actually Seventh Generation. We love Free & Clear All Purpose Cleaner.
Dr. Bronner's is great, too.
Do take a look at these posts:
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Comments (6)
I love Method's lavender-scented all-purpose spray. I tend to buy mostly Method because it's definitely the cheapest, when you get it Target.
For smells, no (non-green, commercial) cleaner has ever smelled as good as Caldrea's Ginger Pomelo or Mrs. Meyer's Geranium scents.
Shaklee Get Clean products hands down the best out of everything I have tried. And you don't have those odd scents (at least I think they are weird) that Methods products produce.
http://shop.shaklee.com/product/homecare1
Shaklee's products are also greatly concentrated so you are creating less waste for landfills.
Vinegar and baking soda clean just about anything. Bon Ami is great and cheap if you need a bit more of an abrasive cleanser. For floors lately, we've been using 1 part vinegar to 1 part water in a squirt bottle with a few drops of peppermint essential oil. It works surprisingly well and smells really yummy and fresh.
Seventh Generation makes a great kitchen de-greaser. It singlehandedly helped me clean up the oven that the former owners of my house let get, well, rather greasy in that dust-in-aged-grease-impossible-to-remove way.
I love Mrs. Meyers. It works really well and makes me feel happier when I clean. I buy a large bottle of the all purpose cleaner and make up spray bottles of cleaner diluted with water. And pumpkindoodle speaks the truth about vinegar, baking soda and bon ami.
Seventh Generation makes a nice toilet bowl cleaner that smells like cedar and works great.
I've been making furniture polish too, out of olive oil, lemon juice and a few drops of lavender essential oil.
I don't care for the scents of the method cleaners, they don't smell natural and good to me.
We use Method all-purpose cleaner (because it's cheap at Target), but we get the Naked scent, so it doesn't smell like anything. Boyfriend wanted to get grapefruit, but I knew that we would be moving = lots of cleaning, and I didn't want the whole house to smell fake fruity. We're planning to get an Omop for the wood floors.
We also enjoy Seventh Generation, which I believe you can get at Target. I hate the Mrs. Meyer's countertop cleaner, though--it smells overpowering.