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Reviews for Best Floor Cleaner and Homemade Recipe for Your Family

Admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:53:07 +0000

Floor is full of dirt that can be seen and germs that cannot be seen. A floor without dirt does not mean that it is clean, especially to babies. To safeguard your babies, kids and other family members, cleaning your floor with water is obviously inadequate. There are many floor cleaners available which clean and disinfect your floor at the same time.

Dettol Complete Clean Multi Action All Purpose Cleaner
Dettol’s products are famous for their cleaning and disinfecting power. This multi-surface cleaner penetrates and loosens kitchen grease, burnt on food and bath room germs including E.coli and Influenza virus (H1N1). Most importantly, it kills 99.9% of bacteria at the same time. It leaves your floor visibly shine and with a fresh fragrance (Green Apple or Citrus Zest). No rinsing is required; you can create a real clean home easily.

Pledge Multi Surface Floor Cleaner
This multi-surface floor cleaner from Pledge (SC Johnson) is suitable to use on almost every kind of surface including sealed wood, laminate, sealed ceramic tile, sealed stone, linoleum or vinyl surface. It removes dirt and grime that build up over time and leaves a fresh citrus scent behind but not dulling, oily residue. No diluting is required. But, it does not serve for the disinfecting purpose.

BabyGanics Floor to Adore
If you have babies and kids at home, it is best to clean your floor with floor cleaners that are safe to them. This floor cleaner from BabyGanics contains no harsh, chemicals or toxins. Main ingredients include Plant Based Cleaning Agents (Coconut, Palm Kernel, Corn and Sugar based surfactants), Soy Ester (Soy based), Filtered Water, Water Conditioning Agent and Preservative (less than 0.05%). It is suitable for all kinds of surface except unsealed wood. It is also great for carpet machines, too! You have choices of fragrance free and lavender.

Homemade Floor Cleaner
1 cup white vinegar
1 gallon warm water
Mix in your cleaning bucket and use this to clean vinyl type floors

Homemade Wood Floor Cleaner
1/2 cup vinegar
1 gallon water
Clean your floor with a squeezed (until almost dry) sponge mop.

Homemade Hardwood Floor Cleaner
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup rubbing alcohol
1/2 cup olive oil
1 gallon warm water
Mix and mop.

Do Dryer Balls Work and Reviews

Admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:42:29 +0000

Most people put their towels and bedding into the tumble dryer. These towels are often difficult to dry and they become sandpapers after the drying. The longer time and fabric softener required for drying mean higher expenses on energy consumption and chemicals. A dry ball is the new solution to the problems!

What is Dryer Ball?

Tumble dryer balls are rubber balls that you throw into your washing machine for better and quicker tumble dry. The dry balls help soften fabrics and shorten drying time and hence reduce energy consumption.

Dryer Balls Do they Work?

During the tumble drying, the dry ball lift and separate the towels and bedding or other laundry. This lifting facilitates efficient air flow and the ball retains heat and therefore reduces drying time. Besides, the tips of dryer ball massage the fabrics to naturally fluff up. Therefore, without the application of fabric softener, you won’t feel stiff for your towels, bedding and clothes. Together with the heat from tumble drying, the ball helps reduce wrinkles on clothes as well.

How to Use?

It is extremely easy to use a dry ball. You simply it into the dryer together with the wet clothes, towels and bedding. Turn on the dryer and the ball will work automatically!

Economical and Environmentally Friendly

One dryer ball can be used forever theoretically or at least for several hundred times of uses. With this dryer ball, drying time is reduced and less energy is consumed. The towels are mechanically softened without the use of toxic and chemical fabric softener. Less waste is released to the environment!

Dry Balls Review

Nellie’s Dryer Balls

Nellie’s dry balls provide you towels and clothes that are softer, more absorbent and with less lint and wrinkles. The brand claims that up to 25% of drying time can be reduced. The balls are guaranteed to last up to 2 years. There are 2 balls in a pack and each pack costs $19.99. The balls are highly rated by customers!

Nellie’s New PVC Free Dryerball

This ball is different from ordinary Nellie’s dryer ball that it is readily recyclable and it comes with an all new fragrance option. The fragrance is added by inserting a fragrance stick into the center cartridge of the dryer ball. But, the Fragrance stick is sold separately. Two balls in a pack cost $24.99. The soy wax and essential oil infused fragrance sticks cost $10 per bottle (10 sticks per bottle). Each stick is able to last up to 10 loads.

This Wonder Dryer Ball not only performs functions like other dryer balls, it also reduces static cling on all natural fiber fabrics. It is hypo-allergenic for skin sensitive people and colorfast on all fabrics. The manufacturer claims the ball is engineered for a lifetime! A laundry set with 1 laundry ball and 2 dryer balls comes at $49.95.

Dryerballs

The brand Dryerballs from UK has designed a pair of dryer balls (one in pink and one in blue) to better result of tumble drying. Both balls should be place into the dryer as they have different tensile strengths (one is harder than the other) and different shaped softening nodes. The two balls work in combination.

Dryer Max Dryer Balls with Anti Static Technology

There is no big functional difference between this brand and others except some users complain that the ball stains on their clothes. The ball may not be heat safe and leaves purple spots on customers’ clothes.

True Green Laundry Dryer Ball

True Green Laundry Dryer Ball is the most highly rated laundry dryer ball. Its softer texture works really well on ordinary functions. Most importantly, much less noise is produced. Manufacturer claims it can reduce as much as 30% of drying time as the ball is 30% larger than other dryer balls. The price is also competitive at $7.99 for two.

Shower

Admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:22:55 +0000

While you take a shower or a bath every day, you have to clean your shower and bathtub regularly to keep your shower and bathtub as well as yourself clean.

No need to doubt, the first thing to do before you actually clean your shower or bathtub is to clear out all the shampoo and liquid soap bottles or whatever. You do not need them for your cleaning and by leaving them there, you will certainly find them as “obstacles” later. For easy to restore them to their position, you may put them all into a bucket.

Begin your cleaning with a rinse first. You should rinse the floor and the walls with hot water. This help to get some of the bigger and less sticky dirt and stains off from the wall and floor.

Then you may wish to clean the drain first as you wish the dirty water to flow away. If you have long hairs, it is an even more important part of works for your shower cleaning. Unscrew the drain cap and wrap your hand with a plastic bag. Use a crochet hook or your finger to pull the hairs out.

To remove the dirt, mildew, stain and soap scum, you can try market ones or the homemade ones. For market ones, the popular ones include Church & Dwight. It offers a Scrub Free soap scum cleaner, Scrub Free mildew stain remover and Arm & Hammer daily scum and mildew preventer.

The SCRUB FREE Soap Scum Remover helps dissolve soap scum on your shower walls and doors leaving them shiny and bright. A fresh lemon scent also comes along with such cleaning power. The SCRUB FREE Mildew Stain Remover helps clean those stubborn mildew stains fast and leaves behind a fresh scent too! The Arm & Hammer daily scum and mildew preventer can prevent soap scum build-up for every day purpose.

You may also try Mr.Clean reach scrubbing tub and shower pad. But to do that, you should first get their mop. Many users like this Mr. Clean pad very much for its powerful cleaning power and easy to use nature.

Other than the Church & Dwight, you can also homemade the cleaner for yourself. Basically what you need are vinegar and baking soda. Remove mildew. Mix 1 cup of vinegar, 1/2 cup baking soda, 1 cup ammonia, and a gallon and a half of hot water, then use a sponge to apply the mixture onto the shower walls and doors. For water stain, you can try mixing vinegar and hot water at equal portion to scrub the stain. You can increase the portion of vinegar if you want a more effective one. Vinegar can also be used to clean the shower curtain. As the shower curtain can be made of plastic, it is not recommended to soak the curtain for too long and by using a too concentrated vinegar solution.

Kitchen Sink, Kitchen Sinks and Sink Kitchen

Admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:22:37 +0000

Searching for ways to clean kitchen sink, kitchen sinks or sink kitchen? You can find your answers here. Cleaning sink is extremely easy compared to many other household cleaning jobs. Learn how to clean your kitchen sink now!

Before cleaning the sink, you should first know the material of your sink, whether it is stainless steel, ceramic or porcelain. Ceramic or porcelain sinks are more easily get stained. Stainless steel ones are more easily getting scratch. Though you may not see many stain on your stainless steel kitchen sink, there are many germs and bacteria.

General guideline

First, for all kind of sink get yourself prepared with liquid soap, sponge or cleaning rug. Turn on the tap and let the water flush away the food residues. Then use the liquid soap to wipe clean the sink. Let water rinse the sink again and wipe clean.

For better cleaning, you can sprinkle some baking soda to the sink area and pour onto the sink some vinegar, then scrub. Or, you may use vinegar along to scrub the sink for removal of grease and germs. The slight acidic power of vinegar can help remove stain.

Stainless steel kitchen sinks

As stainless steel can be damaged by acidic cleaners, choose some mild one is always better. To make stainless steel sinks shinier, you may use toothpaste and soft bristle toothbrush to brush the sink.

If you find the stain persis

ts, you may have to look for some professional stainless steel cleaners.

Ceramic kitchen sink

For harder stain, you may need to use oxygen bleach. Mix the oxygen bleach with water according to the directions on the package of the oxygen bleach. Then soak a cloth into the mixture. Put the soaked cloth on to the stained area of the sink. Wait for 15 minutes. Remove the cloth and slightly scrub. You can discover the stains disappear. Finally, rinse the sink with water and wipe clean.

Keep away smell from drain

To keep away the smell from drain, you can squeeze some lemon juice into the drain. Wait for 5-10 minutes, and then flush with water.

Sanitization

Regular sanitization is required for sink as it is the place that you wash your vegetables and dishes. To do that, you can simply buy a commercial disinfectant. Or, you can use the vinegar as your disinfectant to clean your entire sink. Remember to clean and wipe the handles also.

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Dish Detergent & Dish Soap

Admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:45:29 +0000

Some of my friends tell me that sometimes you may not need dish detergents when the dishes are not that greasy. To be environmentally friendly, it is always true. But dish detergent is not only designed to clean the oil but also the bacteria.

Many of you may use dishwashers instead of hand washing, you have to choose your dish washing detergent carefully. As the hand washing ones are definitely not suitable for your dishwashers. Too much foam can be generated and leaks out from the dishwashers. Common brands include Cascade, Pamolive Ajax and Sunlight dish detergent.

Cascade dish detergent

Cascade dish soap has three line of dishwashing detergent including the Complete, Dawn and Bleach. You can choose among ActionPac, liquid dish detergent or powder detergent.

The Complete line is for those who do not like pre-wash but just put the dishes into the dishwasher and go. If you do not mind for pre-wash, then you can go for Dawn or Bleach depends on how clean you want your dishes. If you are cleaning coffee or tea stain, it is recommended to use the bleach one. The ActionPac helps you to decide the right amount of detergent to use.

The Cascade Complete All-in-1 gel detergent is the top-rated in the most expert and user reviews. Users say that the liquid dish soap cleans reliably. There are no spots or residues left behind.

It costs you around $6 per pack for ActionPac, $7 per 45oz for gel detergent and $7 per 2.81lbs for powder.

Palmolive dish detergent

Palmolive offers detergent for both hand washing and dishwashers. For the hand washing ones, other than emphasizing on the cleaning power, Palmolive also emphasizes on skincare. It has aloe formula for dry skin. It also offers oxy plus and aroma sensation for better smell in the kitchen. It also has Anti-bacteria formula to kill germs. It costs around $7 per bottle of detergent.

Palmolive also offers phosphate free dishwasher detergent eco+. It gives you full cleaning power yet is better to the streams and lakes. It costs around $7.5 for 45oz. The consumer reviews for this eco+ is not really good. Some of the users are saying residue and films left on the dishes. Most importantly, it turns silvery dishware black.

Ajax dish detergent is actually another brand under the Colgate-Palmolive. It also offers the bleach and anti-bacteria formula. It costs you around $2.8 per 16oz. Many users highly rated the products as value for money. They think the price is really low and great. Great cleaning action comes along with great smell.

Homemade dish detergent

If you think the chemical detergents are expensive you can try the cheap and natural one. Many people are using the following recipe for their homemade dish detergent.

1 Tablespoon Borax
1 Tablespoon Baking soda

To remove water film or spots, you can use distilled white vinegar.

Dry Cleaners

Admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:34:45 +0000

Dry cleaning is the process to clean your clothes without water but a solvent. Dry cleaning is best method to clean delicate and detergent damageable garments. Though dry cleaning is common and popular, the solvent is not environmentally friendly. Therefore, some dry cleaners started to use other eco-friendly substitute for the solvents. They are known as the Green Dry Cleaners.

According to studies, around 85% (more than 35,000) dry cleaners in the States use perchloroethylene (“Perc”) as a solvent for dry cleaning.

Perc can be extremely risky to human health and the environment. Minimal contact with Perc can cause dizziness, headaches, nausea, and irritations.

You may not notice how the harmful power of the solvent, but you should be able to notice some bad things from chemical dry cleaning. You may most often experience color fading and shrinking of clothes. Also, sometimes the “dry cleaning smell” comes out from the bag.

The substitute of chemical solvent is CO2 (carbon dioxide) that you can find in the breathing air. CO2 dry cleaning help solve the fading, shrinking and smelling problem. It also cleans you clothes better and cleaner than any other dry cleaning method. Consumer reports have rated the CO2 dry cleaning superior to the traditional one.

Dry cleaning secret with CO2

CO2 Dry Cleaning uses natural liquid carbon dioxide to clean your clothes and this process has become known as the “green revolution” in dry cleaning industry.

The CO2 gas is captured and pressurized into liquid. The liquid CO2 is able to penetrate into fabrics, dissolve the fats and remove the dirt particles. There will not be any residue leaving onto the garments. The CO2 is then pumped and reuse if possible. Remaining CO2 is then released back to the air.

As the cleaning is done at a cool or room temperature, it is less likely for clothes to shrink or the color to fade.

You may think that using CO2, the greenhouse gas to dry clean may increase the rate of global warming. Actually, CO2 dry cleaning does not add any new CO2 to the environment. Liquid CO2 suppliers recapture the CO2 emitted from manufacturing processes, and recycle such CO2 into the liquid solvent for cleaning clothes.

Green Apple

Green Apple one of the green dry cleaners. Other than just using CO2 to clean clothes, it also adopts a lot of other environmentally friendly policies like Hanger Replacement Program, biodegradable plastic bags and CRD Diesel Sprinters for delivery.

By joining Green Apple now, you can have a 10% discount on your first cleaning!

Steam Cleaning

Admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:24:04 +0000

Steam cleaning is the use of steam generated from water to do the cleaning job.

Water is heated to be vapor or steam which breaks the bond that ties the surface of the dirt and stain.

Though steam clean involves water, it is not necessarily mean it is always wet. Actually there is a dry sytem for steam cleaning, which allows the upholstery to dry quickly. You may only use a towel or cloth or wipe clean the areas after steam cleaning.

Impossible to reach area

There can be tiny pores in much stuff like carpet, cushion and other upholstery and even floor. If you just use a duster or a cleaning rug or even vacuum cleaner, you may not actually clean the dirt if it gets into the holes.

With steam cleaning, you can let the steam get into the holes and uplift the dirt for your further scrubbing or wiping. This can save a lot of your time and your power.

Green cleaning

Many people know the fact that cleaning chemicals can be bad to their health and the environment. But in order to have the house completely clean, they do not have a choice.

Actually, steam cleaning is the idea that allows you use less or even no chemicals for cleaning. The steam not only cleans but also sanitizes. The steam can reach 200 Fahrenheit which can get rid of the germs and bacteria. Also, without chemicals, you do not need to smell the chocking or stinging smell.

Suitable for most of the areas

Steam cleaning is considered as a mild and effective cleaning method. The meaning of mild is not to describe the cleaning power. It means it does not cause damage to most of the areas. You can use it for carpet steam cleaning or floor steam cleaning. The other good point for steam cleaning is during the process of the cleaning, the stains and odor (like caused by pet’s urine) can also be removed. It is also a good idea to use steam cleaning as the final cleaning and sanitizing procedures for mold removal. Sanitization is a very important procedure for mold removal as it helps kill the invisible spores.

Home steam cleaning saves you money and brings to you and your family a lot of benefits especially on health. Also, it saves the environment by using less chemicals. Try it now!

House Cleaning When You Have No Time

Admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:04:44 +0000

Running out of time is so common for housewives! People think housewives have a lot of time to finish all the home cleaning but actually it is not. It takes time for every piece of house cleaning jobs to be done and housewives often get running out of time. How to clean your house in a most effective and efficient manner in order to make your house clean, I mean look clean?

Living room

Living room is the first area to clean as when people come into your house, they first get the chance to look at your living room. Living room is the area with most of the big furniture. You probably have no movement for the big furniture, so what you need to do is to care about all the small things to make it tidy. See the house cleaning checklist for living room:

Magazines and books are the most common small things, when you have no time, just pile them up. All the paper stuff in 1-2 piles make the living room looks much tidier. If there are too many piles, you may wish to put the thick ones onto book shelves.

Other small things, if you have them, put them back to their originally position, if not, pick a basket and hold them all, then put the basket into the cupboard.

Windows may be dirty and curtain is your best help. Pull the curtain to cover all the dirt on the windows. If you find your curtain a bit dusty, you can also use sticky tape (see below) or duster to help.

If you do not have time to do vacuum cleaning, I actually discovered one quick method to remove most of the visible hair, dust and small particles on the carpet. Get the sticky tape ready. Better to choose those wide and stickier ones. You may also find some of them with handle which and roll. Stick the tape onto the carpet, press with your hands, then pull u p. Repeat and you will find most of the visible hair, dust and small particles go away.

If you find stains on your sofa, you probably have no time to clean it. What you can do is to use cushion to cover the stain. Put more cushion randomly or put most of the cushion on the side with stain.

When you have time, you can do a serious cleaning by yourself for or even hire the house cleaning service. But what if your guest or husband is coming in 1-2 hours? Cleaning house with the above tips really make your house loo

House Cleaning When You Have No Time

Cleaning Tips

Admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:57:30 +0000

Before the Second World War, people used cleaners that are derived from plants and coconut oil was one of the very common ingredients for soap. Afterwards, plant based cleaners have been substituted by fuel oil and chemical products. Though some of the everyday routine can be done more quickly by the fuel oil and chemicals, living environment and more importantly our health are continuously harmed.

To be environmentally friendly and good to your health, the first action you should take is to use natural cleaners or organic cleaners for your house cleaning. Though it is cheaper and healthier to use natural or organic cleaner for household cleaning, you have to pay attention to the following house cleaning tips.

(i) Natural or organic cleaner’s dirt removal action is not as quick as chemicals or chemical cleaning products. Usually, you may need to wash over for several times with more power. Of course, for delicate material or stuff, you may wish to wash several times instead of using the power. Though it consumes you a little bit more time, it is certainly worthy to do that.

(ii) When you have decided to make your cleaner natural, do not try to change your cleaning products to natural ones all at once as you may feel pressure. Start to change step by step, maybe from kitchen to bathroom to living room…after several weeks, gather your experience, and you will find it much easier to spread this idea throughout your home and every part of your home cleaning.

(iii) Though unlike ordinary household cleaner, natural cleaner is non-toxic and much safer to use. But surely you will not your children to reach the cleaner when you have perfectly mixed them. It is better to put the natural cleaners that you have made into some kind of bottle that is easily distinguished by children that they are cleaners. You should also put clear note and sign on such bottles. Never try to beverages or food container to contain the natural cleaners. Though as I mention the cleaners are non-toxic, but certainly you will not want your children drink or eat any of these natural cleaners.

(iv) It is so common that when you started to change your cleaning products to natural ones, you will find some of the chemicals left unused. You do not want to throw them away, so you are thinking of mix the chemicals with the natural cleaners. Do not ever try to do this as this not only reduce the cleaning power of the cleaner, but also produce an even more toxic product.

Start to enjoy the benefit of natural cleaners from following the household cleaning tips!

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Stay Alive with Natural Cleaners

Admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:42:14 +0000

Home sweet home, it is always the safest place for you to stay. Can you imagine your sweet home may not be as safe as you thought? Will you sometimes feel dizzy when you stay in your sweet home for a longer time? Do you feel it is getting easier to be sick even you are staying at home and not going anywhere? One of the answers is because of the various chemicals in your home.

Most of chemical cleaners that you can find are actually product of highly toxin fuel oil chemicals. Such household cleaners may have choking smell which actually is really bad for your health. Most of the kitchen cleaners contain chemicals that are toxic to human liver and lower your reproductive ability; cleaners for toilet are very corrosive and may cause harm to your skin and sterilizers and polisher can be carcinogenic. One thing to notice is that a lot of chemical cleaners actually provide insufficient sign to disclose about the harm that can cause by the chemicals. According to research study, families in the States are keeping 10 gallon of such fuel oil chemicals at their home.

These chemical cleaners not only harm your body, as they get evaporated or washed away, they are actually harming the whole living environment through the flowing of air and water. Though these chemical cleaners can cause serious problem to our health and living environment, every household spends monies on buying these chemicals.

Not only saving the environment, but yours and your families’ health, what you should do is to immediately reduce the use of these harmful and toxic chemical cleaners and change it into a natural way.

Green clean actually can be so easy to find and use that you have never imagined. They can be as simple as fruits and vegetable that you eat everyday. Also, they are safe, good to your health and it costs you much less than the chemical cleaners. You think it is troublesome, many people actually have their experience shared the other way round. They do enjoy the fun when they have their cleaners DIY especially they found that the natural cleaners are cheap and safe to their families.

Start today with natural cleaners to save your health, save your children, save your family and save the world. You will find it worthy when you start to use them!

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