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

My pal Marye just posted an excellent read, Natural Disinfectants in the Kitchen. I don’t usually highlight single posts here, but Marye’s post covers an excellent topic. She notes that people, even people who are all fussy about using natural cleaners will pull out the harsh stuff when it comes to kitchen cleaning. She’s not wrong. I’ve seen folks do this too. Raw meat scares the heck out of people.
However, you don’t need harsher chemicals in the kitchen.  Marye offers some natural cleaners that I agree with, that will fight germs – even the ones hanging around due to raw …read more