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Charlie’s Soap Natural Laundry Detergent and All-Purpose Cleaner: A Mixed Review

January 20th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Cleaning, What to Buy

You would think that by my age I would have learned to follow directions. Charlie’s Soap for laundry instructed me to run an empty-ish load with two scoops of soap and a few rags. The purpose was to clean out residue from other detergents that remains in the washing machine and would interfere with the [...]

More Than Resolutions: Why Go Green?

January 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Cleaning

I envision a future where my children’s children speak the word “recycle” more often than the word “trash”. That world will be a cleaner, healthier place than ours because of all our hard work conserving resources, protecting the environment and reducing our waste.
Mandi at Organizing Your Way is tackling various resolutions people make as [...]

Monday Mission: Green Cleaners Resolutions

January 18th, 2010 · 43 Comments · Cleaning, Monday Missions, What to Buy

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make one change in your cleaning routine to be more kind to the Earth.
Impact Ratings:
Level of Commitment: Making Strides
I’ve been “green” for a few years in most of my cleaning with my triple threat cleaners, but I had a few areas that I [...]

Mental Mission: Your Cleaning Evaluation (& I’m going to be on a talk show!)

January 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Cleaning

I knew for quite some time that my dishwasher detergent and my laundry soap were my two problem areas when it came to green cleaning. I was always on the lookout for eco-friendly options. I’m thrilled to finally feel like I have all my ducks in a row in those areas, but it took most [...]

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Monday Mission: Clean Up Without Throwing Out

January 1st, 2010 · 18 Comments · Avoiding Waste, Cleaning, Decreasing Disposables in December

Your mission, if you choose to accept it (on a Friday!), is to decrease what you throw away while attempting to keep a clean house.
Impact Ratings:
Level of Commitment: Baby Steps
Watching some people clean up is like being the unfortunate witness to another mother’s child’s screaming hissy fit: I’m embarrassed and pained to watch, and [...]

An Update on How to Kill Germs Naturally

November 24th, 2009 · 20 Comments · Cleaning

I thought I was going to have to rescind/delete one of my favorite posts, one that readers reference time and time again. Talk about a reason for a tissue and a pity party!
My three favorite natural green cleaners include baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and vinegar. I received an email recently asking me to rescind my [...]

The Final Answer: How Does Biokleen Dishwasher Detergent Work? (And Their Other Stuff Too?)

November 23rd, 2009 · 12 Comments · Cleaning, What to Buy

Hah-leluia!
It was a Sunday morning when I opened the dishwasher. Appropriately, I woke husband up singing the Halleluia chorus when I saw the job Biokleen dishwasher detergent did.
Clear glasses?
Check.
Cut the grease?
Check.
Zero food residue?
Check.
100% success, zero rejections?
Check.
It even cleaned my yogurt jar, which I’ve found, since having to handwash them for two weeks, have little spots [...]