Product: Creamy Cleanser from Earth Friendly Products

Uses: Replacement for toxic scouring powders. Effective at deep cleaning and polishing stainless steel, porcelain, hard surface counters, corian counter tops, and other bath and kitchen surfaces.
Ingredients: Purified water, Lemon oil, xanthan gum, crystalline silica, 100% natural anionic coconut kernel oil-based surfactant.
Cost: $4.09 for 17oz. Also available in bulk.
Eco facts:

All Earth Friendly Products are non-toxic and plant-based.
This cleaner is free of phosphates, chlorine, petroleum chemicals and an amazing amount of other harmful ingredients.
100% biodegradable cleaner.
All parts of the container are easily recycled; even the cap! HUGE plus.
Septic and greywater safe.
Never tested on animals.
The company …read more

Folks have a lot of questions about green cleaners. Most recently on the post, 25 Safe, Non-toxic, Homemade Cleaning Supplies, Tosha asked, “Does anyone know how long you can keep these products once you mix them?” Then Caroline followed up with, “I too am interested in knowing if you can mix a batch up and save it? Or do you have to mix and use immediately? No one has answered Tosha on this…and I would like to know too!”
The issue here is that there are 25 cleaners posted in that post – so as you might guess, each can have …read more

I recently got a bunch of Earth Friendly Products and have been reviewing them around my various blogs. See:

Organic Lavender Window Cleaner
Orange Plus Surface Cleaner

I wanted to review the Parsley Plus Surface Cleaner here though, because I know I’ve got a bunch of readers into gardening and herbs so I thought readers here might specifically adore this cleaner.

Product: Parsley Plus All-Purpose Surface Cleaner from Earth Friendly Products
Uses: Use to clean kitchen, bath, and other countertops, plus other hard surface areas.
Ingredients: Purified water, parsley essence, 100% natural anionic coconut kernel oil based surfactant.
Cost: $4.75 for 17oz. Also available in other sizes …read more

In our last reader question post we looked at How To Safely Toss Toxic Cleaners. It’s a good topic for the season since so many of us are thinking about green spring cleaning, which made me think, hey, it might be time for a green cleaning round-up.

Following are some of the most useful green cleaning posts archived here at Tree Hugging Family; along with some seriously strange Mr. Yuk video fun. This list of past posts should help you get your green cleaning plans organized for spring and beyond…
Easy green cleaning tips:

How to choose green cleaners – store bought …read more

Here at Tree Hugging Family, I mainly advocate making your own homemade green cleaners. Not only is it easy to make simple green cleaners, but very cost effective. That said, there will always be folks who want to buy, not make cleaners, so I figured we should take a look at which store bought cleaners are actually green.
The number one rule for choosing a green store bought cleaner is – read your labels. A pretty waterfall or little green leaf means nothing. Ignore fancy ‘green’ packaging and read your labels.
Terms you want to see on a cleaning bottle include:

Ammonia …read more

This week our green audit is cleaning supplies. We’ve already discussed the dangers of traditional, commercial cleaning supplies, so now we’re moving on to solutions. I will be going over some options available for purchase this week, but first we’re going to look at homemade cleaners.
Benefits of homemade cleaners:

Less packaging waste. You’re not buying new bottles over and over.
Less expensive. I actually started making homemade products before I was really all the way green – why? To save money.
Less harmful (often not harmful at all) to humans, animals, and the earth.
Less noxious home smell. Homemade natural cleaners always smell better …read more