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Green Cleaning Recipes Green Cleaning Recipes Tips and Tricks According to the U.S Green cleaning recipes Green cleaning recipes Tips and tricks According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, • Mix your homemade only a fraction of registered chemicals have gone cleaners in small through complete testing for human health concerns. batches. Some chemicals have immediate toxic effects. Others are toxic to our bodies only after repeated, long-term • Label all containers exposure. Hazardous household chemicals also require with ingredients, special disposal at drop-off sites to protect our air, land intended use and and water. date made. You can protect your health and the health of your • Keep all containers family, pets and the environment by making your own out of reach of cleaning products with simple, less-toxic ingredients. children and pets. Many common household products, such as baking • Keep all containers soda, lemon juice, vinegar and liquid dish soap, can closed when not in make effective and inexpensive cleaners. use. Basic cleaning supplies • Never use food or beverage containers Baking soda for cleaning Lemon or lime juice chemicals of any type. Washing soda • Never mix bleach and ammonia together or White vinegar with any other Non-scratch scrub sponge product. Avoid using Drain snake bleach or ammonia. Pumice stone • Avoid using chemical pesticides. • Read and follow all label directions on purchased products. • Check product on a small area to test for colorfastness (carpet and clothing stain removal). Vinegar can leach color from some items. Basic properties and uses for cleaning supplies: Baking soda White vinegar Borax, non- (sodium chlorine • Antibacterial bicarbonate) bleach and • Kills most mold washing • Odorless • Deodorizer soda can • Anti-fungal properties be used by themselves • Lime deposit remover • Deodorizer as household cleaners • Stain remover and laundry products in • Stain remover when accordance with label diluted with warm water • Fabric softener when added directions. All of these • Fabric softener when with laundry detergent products are harmful if added to rinse cycle swallowed. Washing soda • Use to eliminate • Polisher – removes dirt is not the same as baking bacteria, mold without damaging soda and should not be and germs surfaces used in place of baking Non-scratch scrub soda. Lemon or lime juice sponge • Use only non-chlorine • Smell symbolizes • Helps bleach if you feel you cleanliness remove stains must use a bleach • Acidic – can product. Use it by itself. • Helps scrub surfaces provide antibacterial/ • Avoid using bleach or • Must be dried antiseptic properties ammonia. Never mix completely after each • Stain removing – let sit these products with use to avoid bacteria for a few minutes each other or any other growth product. Washing soda Drain snake (sodium carbonate) • Helps clear clogged • Similar to piping baking soda (not for use in cooking) Pumice stone • Odorless • Helps remove lime build • Stain remover – has up in toilets alkaline properties • Water softener - treats hard water • Descale coffee machines or bathroom tiles GREEN CLEANING RECIPES | 1 Recipes: Around the home All-purpose cleaner Non-oily stains ¼ cup white vinegar 1 teaspoon white vinegar 1½ teaspoons 1 teaspoon liquid soap non-antibacterial 1 pint lukewarm water liquid dish soap Apply to stain with In a 16 oz. spray bottle, towel and rub gently, add the vinegar and fill rinse with water and dry with water. Add dish with towel. soap last. Add lemon juice if desired. Sanitizer 1* Air fresheners 4 ounces white vinegar Try one or all of these air freshener recipes in Heat 4 oz (½ C) white distilled vinegar in a your home. Two of them will add humidity to sauce pan to 150°F or 66°C (handle the air while they sit on your stove. The third CAREFULLY when heating as the liquids will passively freshens the air when placed be warm but not hot). Using a funnel, pour around your home. These are not fresheners the warm solution into a spray bottle. to be sprayed. Immediately spray on kitchen surfaces, Air freshener 1: counter tops, sink, refrigerator interior and faucets. Let sit for 1 minute then wipe with a 1 tablespoon white vinegar clean white absorbent towel/cloth. 1 cup water * Boil vinegar and water to eliminate Sanitizer 2 unpleasant smells. 4 ounces white vinegar Air freshener 2: Use 4 oz (½ C) white 2 cinnamon sticks distilled vinegar. Using a 1 orange funnel, pour room 4 whole cloves temperature solution into spray bottle. Spray onto 1 pot of water kitchen surfaces, counter Boil water with cinnamon sticks, oranges and tops, refrigerator interior cloves for a natural air freshener. and faucets. To be effective, solution MUST sit Tip: keep out of reach of children and pets to for 10 minutes then wipe with a clean paper avoid spilling. towel. *Source: Yang, H., Kendall, P., Medeiros, L., Sofos, J. (2009) Inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella Typhimurium with compounds available in households. J. Food Prot. 72(6); 1201-1208 2 | GREEN CLEANING RECIPES Tips and tricks Check the labels for these ingredients when shopping for household cleaners. Avoid these ingredients because they may have health or Carpet stains environmental impacts. White absorbent towels/cloth • 2-butoxyethanol (or ethylene glycol Warm water monobutyl ether) and other glycol ½ cup vinegar ethers 1 teaspoon liquid soap Mix vinegar and soap together in a bowl. • alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium Absorb as much moisture as you can from chloride (ADBAC) the stained area with towels, rinse area with • Alkylphenol ethoxylates (some warm water and apply vinegar and soap common ones: nonylphenol and solution, leave for 15 minutes, then rinse a octylphenol ethoxylates, octoxynols) towel with clean water and blot dry. • Benzalkonium chloride Wood furniture scratch repair • Bisphenol A Unsalted almonds • d-Limonene Rub unsalted almonds on scratches on wood furniture, doors, window trim, etc. to conceal • dodecyl-dimethyl-benzyl them. ammonium chloride • Ethanolamines (common chemicals Floor cleaner (including wood) to look out for: monoethanolamine White vinegar [MEA], diethanolamine [DEA], Mix ½ cup vinegar per gallon of water. triethanolamine [TEA]) Ant control • Fragrances • lauryl dimethyl benzyl ammonium Mint tea bags (or crushed mint leaves) Cloves chloride Cayenne pepper • Parabens Use one of the above ingredients by putting • Phthalates it at the ants’ point of entry. • Triclocarban General pest control tips • Triclosan • Control pests without using toxins by Source: Green Cleaning, Sanitizing, and eliminating their food, water and Disinfecting: A Toolkit for Early Care and access. Education http://www2.epa.gov/sites/ production/files/documents/ece_ • Use white vinegar in place of chemical curriculumfinal.pdf pesticides. • Avoid using chemical pesticides. GREEN CLEANING RECIPES | 3 Kitchen Laundry room Oven cleaner Laundry detergent 1 cup or more baking 4 tablespoons borax soda 4 tablespoons 1 or 2 teaspoons of washing soda non-antibacterial 4 tablespoons dish soap non-antibacterial Sprinkle water generously over bottom of dish soap oven, then cover the grime with enough 1 gallon warm water baking soda so surface is totally white. ¼ cup lemon juice (optional) Sprinkle or spray more water over the top. Let Combine water, borax, lemon juice and sit overnight. Wipe up the next morning; then washing soda in a gallon container. Add with a bit of liquid soap on a damp scrub dishwashing liquid last, cover and shake until sponge, wash remaining residue from oven. combined. Use ¼ cup per load of laundry. Produce cleaner Fabric softener Baking soda 1 cup white vinegar Scrub sponge Add to load of laundry when you add the Option 1: Sprinkle baking soda on wet scrub detergent. sponge, scrub lightly and rinse. Stains and odors Option 2: Wash produce in a bowl of cool on fabric water with 2-3 tablespoons of baking soda and rinse. 1 cup baking soda 1 cup white vinegar Dishwasher detergent ¼ cup warm water (for dishwashing machines) Make a thick paste with baking soda and ¼ cup washing soda water. Rub into stain before washing. Add 3 drops of remaining baking soda and vinegar to non-antibacterial washing machine when adding detergent. dish soap ¼ cup lemon juice (optional) This recipe will clean one load of dishes. Recipes for sinks/tile, rust removal and unclogging drains are located in the bathroom section. 4 | GREEN CLEANING RECIPES Bathroom Toilet bowl cleaner Unclog and deodorize drains 1 cup baking soda 1 box baking soda 1 cup white vinegar 1 cup white vinegar 1 pumice stone Drain snake 1 toilet brush Sprinkle a generous amount of Sprinkle baking soda into toilet bowl, then baking soda in and around the drain opening. drizzle vinegar and scrub with toilet brush. Follow with a cup of white vinegar. Finish by Next, use a pumice stone to remove lime in flushing with very hot water. Use drain snake bowl. to remove remaining clogs. Repeat if needed. Rust remover for sinks and tubs Soft scrubber: basin, tub and tile cleaner ½ cup salt 1 lemon ½ cup baking soda 1 scrub sponge Enough non-antibacterial dish soap to make frosting-like consistency Sprinkle a little bit of salt on the rust and Juice from one half of a lemon squeeze a lemon over the salt until it is soaked in lemon juice. Leave the mixture on Place baking soda in a bowl; slowly pour in the rust for two to three hours. Use the liquid soap, stirring continually. Add lemon. leftover rind to scrub the rust away and then Scoop mixture onto scrub sponge, then wash rinse. surface and rinse. GREEN CLEANING RECIPES | 5 Product purchasing tips If you choose to purchase cleaning products instead of making your own, you can reduce exposure to harmful chemicals by purchasing less hazardous household products. • Look for products that list all their ingredients on the label. Generally, fewer ingredients are better. • See page 4 for a list of ingredients to avoid when buying household cleaners. • Use a multi-purpose cleaner rather than buying many specialty cleaners.
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