Effective Green Cleaning Tips & Tools for your Home

Entry #1370, July 8, 2012

If your are trying to find green cleaning practices for your home, today’s post will give you ideas. One of the primary concerns at home is to keeping it clean and tidy. This is to provide a healthy home for family members. As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure.

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Here are effective cleaning tools and tricks for your home:

Create Your Own Green Cleaning Solutions

You can have an effective cleaning solution by mixing up ingredients found in your pantry already. Make sure these basic materials will never run out of stock.

• White vinegar: Due to its level of acidity, this cleanser is effective for killing germs, bacteria and molds. To have your own window cleaning solution, combine equal parts of water and vinegar in a spray bottle and add a splash of lemon juice. Wooden cutting boards can be sanitized by undiluted vinegar. To clean the toilet bowl, pour 1 cup of white vinegar and a dash of baking soda and let it sit overnight. Scrub well and flush.
• Baking Soda: To clean surfaces like sinks, tile, and tubs, sprinkle baking soda on a damp cloth, scrub then rinse with clean water. To keep away the odor, sprinkle the bottom of the garbage can, disposal or sink drain. A small bowl of baking soda in the refrigerator eliminates foul odor.
• Salt: In removing rust stains, moistened it with a mixture of salt and lemon juice. A paste of salt and vinegar could clean tarnished brass or copper.
• Lemon: Toss some lemon peel in your garbage disposal to avoid unwanted smells. Lemons also make a great degreaser by adding a bit to your dish soap.

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Choose the right broom

Finding a broom that sweeps up effectively and without redoing the same areas over and over is important. Here are tips to find a broom that suits your floor type.

• Porch or deck. Corn brooms are best for sweeping your porch or deck and other hard surfaces having rough bristles. These bristles are hard enough to sweep away dirt, pebbles and grass.
• Sidewalk, driveway, or patio. Push brooms are commonly used for outdoor. This wide broom is designed to push dirt and dust away from you, thus makes it easy to sweep leaves, pine straw and dirt.
• When you’re inside. Angled broom is efficient for sweeping dirt in tight and hard to reach spaces inside the house. The angled bristles get into corners easily.
• When sweeping hurts your back. An ergonomic broom keeps you from bending over while sweeping. This long broom handle reduces reaching and bending and prevents wrist and hand strains.

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When cleaning hard-to-reach areas like under the cabinets or sleek edges, use innovative cleaning tools like bendable-neck vacuum cleaner and blowers. Whether you invest in a new cleaning tool or you use your old ones, use these tips to ensure you are using a tool that is effective. There is nothing worse than cleaning the same room over and over again, right? Use these helpful tips to clean your home with green solutions and great tools!

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