Cleaning Posts and Information

Typical household cleaners are on the top of the list of dangers in our homes. They cause indoor air pollution, which means many of us will suffer from skin, respiratory and eye irritation. Even if you leave your windows open and turn your bathroom fan on, you are still inhaling and exposing yourself to these chemicals.

Here are some simple, Eco friendly recipes and cleaning methods for you to try at home. Each one uses ingredients that are easy to find around the house – and are very cost effective too!

Everyone has seen the commercials with homeowners spraying every corner of their homes with air fresheners, then taking a deep breath of whatever they just sprayed into the air as if it is an actual breeze of mountain air. Well, what you and these actors might not know is, what they are inhaling so vigorously is in fact not clean or healthy in the least.

Dry cleaning, when you think about it, is a strange term used to describe the process of dousing clothes in a slurry of oil byproducts. Dry cleaning is not dry at all, and neither is it very clean.

Strong cleaning agents are usually made up of harsh chemicals. However, don’t go thinking that if you mix two cleaning agents together, you will get a better cleaning agent.

You hear about air quality every now and then, but nobody really seems to take indoor air quality all that seriously. You would assume that from traffic and regular pollution, outdoor air quality would be worse than indoor air quality. But in reality, you’d be terribly, terribly wrong. Here are three facts about indoor air quality you will be surprised to find out.

Negative ions are oxygen molecules that are buddied with an extra electron. Negative ions are created through the natural actions of water, air, sunlight and the Earth’s intrinsic radiation. There is a higher concentration of of negative ions around moving waters and after a thunderstorm.

There are many benefits to working and living in a clean environment. However, there is such a thing as over-cleaning, and recent studies have shown that it seems to have some negative health effects. Specifically, the development of allergies in children and generally weaker immune systems.

Everyone’s shoes start to stink after a while. Nobody can really help it, its not like anyone has feet smell like flowers and rainbows. Here are 3 clever ways to get the stink of our your foot holders.