Your Natural Shop

Maintaining a clean home using green and eco-friendly products today is easier than it ever has been. With everyone looking for better ways to be more economical, live healthier lives, and take care of our earth, it makes a lot of good green sense to make the switch, and the icing on the cake… it’s so easy that anyone can do it.

4 Easy Tips to Cleaning your Home the Green, Eco-Friendly, and Economical way

1. ALL-PURPOSE CLEANERS: Make “one product, many jobs” the new green-your-home motto for you and your family. While there are many different green cleaning products for different jobs, the best economical choice is to find an “all-purpose” cleaner such as one of our favorites, Bio-Kleen All Purpose Cleaner, which has many uses and can act as a stand-alone product to tackle many cleaning jobs effectively.

2. CLEAN LAUNDRY: Making the choice to switch to greener laundry products is more than just for the good of the earth and your clothes, but is important to your own health as well. Your skin, being your body’s largest organ, absorbs anything it touches or that is in the environment and can affect one’s health for the better or worse. For a healthier laundry soap made from naturally derived ingredients, we like Seventh Generation’s Free & Clear Liquid Laundry Soap, or for a real back-to-nature alternative, try Reetha’s Soap Nuts. Dryer sheets can be filled with toxic chemicals as well and can also coat your dryer which will shorten the life of the machine. To avoid static cling, try using a greener and healthier product such as Good Home Co. Dryer Sheets
which are non-toxic and chemical free, as well as they are bio-degradable and hypoallergenic.

3. CLEANING SUPPLIES: When making green choices for your cleaning tools and supplies, you can find healthier and eco-friendly products such as HEPA vacuums, recycled mops and brooms, natural sponges, rags and more. Try the Quickie Upright Broom for a greener alternative to sweeping your floors – the handle is made of recycled wood and the broom fibers are made from post-consumer plastic. And we really like these natural scrubbies made by Twist – they are made of natural fibers and are also bio-degradable.

4. CLEAN PETS: If you are like me and have a household with multiple pets, it is important to try to keep them clean so your home stays clean and healthy too. While you don’t want to bathe a dog too often which will strip their coat of its natural oils, when Sparky is dirty, he needs a bath and for this we love EarthBath’s Aloe and Oatmeal Pet Shampoo to get the job done – the aloe and oatmeal help keep skin and coat healthy and smells wonderful (an unscented version is available at select retail stores). For most pet owners, there are some unfavorable odors or stains that come along with having a pet in the house - you may like to try Simple Solution Orange Power Oxy Solution Pet Stain & Odor Destroyer which will take care of the problem in a non-toxic and healthy way.