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Nikole made the comment below and I feel it’s worth its own post! Thanks Nikole!!
A friend of mine from high school worked for a professional cleaning service for several years and she developed serious allergies to cleaning products and personal hygiene products. So for the last ten years, she’s made all of her own shampoo, soap (old fashioned lye soap the way my grandma used to make it), and cleaning products.
At the beginning of this year, she and I decided that we would pool all our knowledge about natural cleaning and develop a user-friendly website with information about why certain things work, what happens when you combine them (ie; why lemon juice and baking soda work so well together) and a strength rating. This came about because I noted that she is strong as an ox. Natural cleaning recipes that didn’t work at all for me worked fine for her, because she was able to put so much more elbow grease behind her efforts. So we felt like it would be good to give a “relative strength needed” rating - if it works for me, then most folks should have no problem, if it only works for her, then it’s something that you’ll probably be disappointed with the results unless you’ve also got above average strength for a woman. (She was able to beat men bigger than her at wrestling - like I said, strong as an ox.)
We’ve tested a bunch of the recipes and have been compiling our results in a database but we haven’t begun any of the steps in designing the website.
But some of the things we found: baking soda does not work terribly well in keeping a diaper pail odor free. Not even if you used a whole box at one time. Nor does charcoal. Nor do those volanic rocks that are supposed to absorb odor. Really, the only things that worked were dumping it every day, which sort of defeats the purpose of a diaper pail, or, scented carpet deodorizer mixed with baking soda, which sort of defeated the “all natural” purpose.
Baking soda sprinkled on a carpet is nice in theory - but in reality, if you’ve got an older vacuum and older somewhat matted carpet, don’t do it. You’ll just having baking soda residue everywhere forever after.
Baking soda is great for cleaning a mildly dirty sink or bathtub - like after a toddler who hasn’t been playing in mud has taken a bath. If the toddler has had a mudbath, the baking soda doesn’t work as well.
The best cleaner for pergo-type laminated wood floors that I’ve used - 1 part vinegar, 1 part rubbing alcohol, 1 part water. It cleans well, leaves the floor shiny, dries fast, leaves behind no residue nor stickiness, which is more than I can say for any other brand of commercial cleaner I’ve used on the floor, including the overpriced stuff they sell you with the floor and insist that you use or risk destroying the laminate.
Vinegar in the rinse cycle helps with static cling, and so do those little spiky dryer balls. They do not however, make your clothes anywhere near as soft as fabric softener. The advantage to soft clothes is they last longer - not such a big deal with little kids who outgrow them fast, but for adults, longevity is a good thing. So, I switched to Ecover fabric softener. Not as nice as Downy, but better than nothing.
Vinegar and baking soda made my dishwasher smell funkier than it did to start with and did not leave my dishes clean at all. I switched to Seventh Generation - leaves a little more residue than Cascade, though that can be mitigated with a small cap of vinegar in there, though then I get the funky smell…so I check all dishes and handwash any that have residue left. Happens more with plastic than glass anyway, and since we’re slowly replacing all of our plastic with glass/ceramic, it’s becoming less of an issue over time. Still searching for that really great natural dish cleaner though.
While I use essential oils for a number of other things, including indoor air quality, particularly in winter, I don’t use them for cleaning. Mainly because it’s far too expensive to use them in the proper quantities to do any good. Tea tree oil in particular is one that I actively avoid now, after having read several studies about the quantity of tea tree oil needed versus that which is used to actually be effective. Tea tree oil is one that organisms can build tolerance to, much like antibiotics. So most people use a small bit of it, which destroy 90% of the organisms, but the remaining 10% are still there, and they’re the strongest of the batch and surviving the tea tree oil just made them stronger…
And in some cases, I think you just need to use some bleach. When Ben was sick with the never-ending stomach flu two years ago, I spoke with a number of different nurses and doctors about how to disinfect his clothes, bedding, toys, etc. I asked about using boiling water and vinegar, and to a person they all said to use a moderate to strong bleach solution and then, if I wanted to, to go back and wash again with the boiling water and vinegar - to remove any traces of the bleach and give a second cleaning, which is a good idea in general with stomach bugs, since enterovirus (the type of virus that causes stomach bugs) are so hardy that they can even survive mild bleach solutions.
I have also found that vinegar is great at removing unpleasant household odors - takes a bit, but it works. And apple cider vinegar is great for catching gnats, which we get a few times a year. Apple cider vinegar is a wonder in and of itself, although I have to stay pretty clear of it now because of my gallstones.
Nikole
From Harmful Cleaning Products vs. Safe, Easy, Cheap Alternatives, 2008/08/30 at 2:54 PM
This article comes from Women’s Voices for the Earth web site www.womenandenvironment.org
http://www.womenandenvironment.org/campaignsandprograms/SafeCleaning/HazardsReport.pdf
My mother-in-law lives in an area where she is challenged with hard water deposits. The water in the toilet bowl leaves a grayish, hard to remove discoloration. She used many products and found Lime-Away to work. She ran out of the product and decided to use good old house hold white vinegar and you know what? It worked!!!!
I have used vinegar to eliminate odors like the smell of fried fish. I just pour some vinegar in a small bowl and place it in places where the smells tend to hang out a bit longer.
I will be conducting some experiments to see which safe, natural, easy and cheap house hold products are best for cleaning. I have read about baking soda, vinegar, lemon, tea tree oil, borax and other products that are excellent ingredients for cleaning. I’ll see which formulas work best. So stay tuned!
It’s time to get back to basics folks! Let’s start putting some muscle in cleaning and stop being lazy and using harsh products to clean our homes.
