Green Cleaners: Clean Your Home with Natural Household Cleaners

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July/August 1990
By Ann Larkin-Hanson 
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If you run into problems, or if you're looking for an alternative to a product not mentioned here, rest assured there's plenty of help available. For starters, call your parents—or your grandparents, your in-laws or the nice older couple down the road—and ask them how they used to clean their homes (and maybe still do).

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Many environmental groups such as Greenpeace, Citizens for a Better Environment, Environmental Action and The Ecology Center have lists of ideas and references. Lately, there has been an increase in the number of new biodegradable cleaning products entering the marketplace. There are two of these that I especially like: Ecover dish soap and Schwan's laundry soap. Biodegradable cleaning products, however, can still be difficult to find, often come packaged in plastic and are usually more expensive than homemade solutions.

There are also a number of excellent books about homemade alternatives to commercial cleaners, though not all of them focus on the issue of environmental safety. I use Cheaper and Better, by Nancy Birnes,The Non-Toxic Home, by Debra Lynn Dadd, and Blueprint for a Green Planet, by John Seymour and Herbert Girardet. Here's to cleanliness, inside and out.

Ann Larkin-Hansen is a freelance writer who cleans up after an assortment of boys and pets in Marshfield, Wisconsin.

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