NEW! Who needs toxic chemicals when baking soda, vinegar, and water spruce up the house just fine? Alice Shabecoff shares some handy tips on how to green your household cleaning. Reprinted from Mothering issue no. 165, March–April 2011. 6 pages
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"No smart and caring mother would spend a small fortune to harm her child. But that’s just what we do every time we enter a supermarket and come out with an armful of products for spiffing up our homes. We buy air fresheners, toilet cleaners, drain uncloggers, laundry fluffers, bug chasers, countertop degreasers, bacteria-slaying soaps, silver polishers, and more. When you learn what ingredients lurk in these products, you understand why manufacturers hide them behind the veil of “trade secrets.”
We grab these cleaning products off the store shelves, convinced they work because years of advertising have told us so. But it’s even easier to make a few basic products that will work just as well, if not better, are not dangerous, and will save you money."
