April 2008 Eco-Challenge: Clean Green!
With Passover rapidly approaching, I decided that the perfect Pesach eco-challenge would be to change to green cleaning products for the pre-Pesach scrub down. I don’t know about you, but my removing of Chametz includes cleaning my house from top to bottom. Not that I’m actually trying to remove all the leavened products from my house, but in the spirit of the tradition — I like to give things a good cleaning.
So, what you do clean with? Do you use harmful chemicals or earth-friendly products?
Try buying some eco-friendly cleaning products from you local grocery store. You’d be surprised how mainstream “green” is these days. Or you could head off to Whole Foods or your local Co-op too. Or…you could try making some simple cleaners of your own.
Whether you’re hunting for chametz or killer dust bunnies — get a little greener with your cleaning this April!
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While I use Scrubbing Bubbles Wipes on the surfaces I use vinegar and water on my floors, perhaps it’s time to change over to V & W wipes on the surfaces too but the smell is pretty strong (maybe a couple of drops of essential oil would work). Our detergents are all eco-friendly, including our latest addition Ecover’s version of Shout which seems to be working nicely. My next task is to figure out where to put my clothes like so that we can save some energy that way. Luckily I got some support from an esteemed friend of my husbands. Puppy isn’t keen as he is tall and when we had them at the apartment they weren’t secure, i.e. folks could walk through our yard and grab a new shirt on the way, and he would get caught in them, so he dug them up. At our new location things should be better, just need to find the right location.