Clean Green

By Heather

by Heather

I’ll be honest, when I come home to a clean house that smells like vinegar, my nose does a double-take. It’s just not that fresh (chemical-laden) smell I grew up with, but that’s a good thing. I know that cleaning with natural products is better and safer for me and my children.

When you make cleaning supplies with natural, non-scary things like lemon juice and white vinegar, you can call them recipes. I love that. What if some lemon juice spills on your child’s hand? No big whoop. Can’t say that about most of our cleaning products. We started cleaning with homemade products when my second son was crawling. I felt better knowing that he was licking up vinegar rather than bleach. Know what I mean?

Inspired by watching the documentary about No Impact Man (super cool, whole family project by the way), I renewed my curiosity about creating more natural house cleaning products at home. Colin and his wife actually did their laundry in a bathtub by marching around on it.

Here are a few recipes to get you started:

All purpose spray AKA Counter Intelligence Cleaner

Combine the following in a non-aerosol spray bottle using a funnel. Shake gently until the ingredients are dissolved.