Green Cleaning

The SIX essential items for all your household cleaning
that are cheap, successful and safe.

  1. Bicarbonate of Soda
    For abrasive cleaning, scouring, Stain removal, deodorizing and water softening.
  2. Vinegar
    For disinfecting, cleaning, deodorising, grease removal, whitening,wood & vinyl cleaning
  3. Lemons
    For disinfecting, grease cutting, deodorizing, whitener and mild bleach.
  4. Pure Soap
    (Soap flakes or a simple bar of laundry soap).  For general cleaning and grease removal
  5. Eucalyptus Oil
    For disinfecting, stain removal, and general cleaning.
  6. Cloudy Ammonia
    For ‘extra’ stain removal only if required. Good for heavy   grease and dirt cutting.

By using these six basic household items for all your cleaning requirements you can replace the following commercial cleaning products with cheaper, natural and safer, alternatives: OVEN CLEANER, DISH-WASHING DETERGENT, LAUNDRY DETERGENT, CARPET DEODORANT, SURFACE SPRAY, FLOOR CLEANER, CARPET SHAMPOO, WOODEN SURFACE CLEANERS, SURFACE SPRAYS & CLEANERS, ABRASIVE CLEANERS, BATHROOM CLEANER, MOULD REMOVER, DISINFECTANT, TOILET CLEANER, DRAIN CLEANER, WINDOW CLEANER, WATER SOFTENER AND PREWASH STAIN REMOVER.

SO, ARE YOU 'GREEN CLEANING'? Or, are you still using expensive, environmentally unfriendly cleaning agents?

There's no excuse for using commercial cleaning products when 'green cleaning' is CHEAPER, much SAFER and better for the ENVIRONMENT. It is our environmental responsibility to find new ways of doing things for the betterment of the planet.

GETTING STARTED - Becoming a 'Green Cleaner'
Changing your 'cleaning habits' and breaking away from the commercial trap of purchasing cleaning products takes only a little effort and education to 're-learn' new habits. Becoming environmentally responsible doesn’t take much, its just a matter of making a concerted decision to do something about our wasteful ways, then setting about implementing a few changes. Remember: Its only HABIT brought about by past experience that keeps us in our current ways – once broken a whole new economically rational world awaits! So how about giving it a try?  Here’s a recipe to get you started:

Turning a bar of soap into 20 litres of Washing Mixture
Grate one bar of soap. Put one half in one 10 litre bucket. Put the other half of grated soap in another 10 litre of water. Add ½ cup washing soda and 2 litres of boiling water to each bucket. Stir both buckets until mixture has dissolved. Top each bucket up to full with water.  That’s All!  Easy, cheap and green! Approximately one cup of this mixture per wash (in the washing machine) will be sufficient for a full load of washing.Can also be used for other washing tasks, ie. Dishwashing, hand washing (Liquid soap), etc.

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