Does The Environment Matter When Cleaning Your Home?

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Does The Environment Matter When Cleaning Your
Home?
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• Well, I guess it all depends on how you view the
  world and your place in it. For many of us, we
  appreciate that the environment is there for us
  all to protect, and that if we want a healthy
  planet for our kids or grandkids to grow up in,
  then we should all do our best not to abuse it.
  In our homes, we should all want to use less
  harsh chemicals, not only to try and protect the
  environment, but to keep our familys safe, too.

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• Clean air renews and rejuvenates keeping not
  only our homes fresh but preventing the
  environment from becoming polluted. Sleep can be
  improved, as can concentration levels and our
  overall health is vastly improved when we remove
  toxic chemicals from our homes.
• So, we know that the environment matters when
  were cleaning, but how do we go about helping to
  protect it?

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• Remove toxic products
• The cupboard under our kitchen sink is doubtless
  full of potentially harmful toxic substances,
  poisons no less, and eliminating these is one of
  the first steps you can take to helping to
  protect your home and the environment. Whether it
  be bug sprays, cleaners or waxes, these items
  pose the highest threat to young children in the
  home, and can damage the environment when used.

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• Replace toxic products
• Simply choose non-toxic, biodegradable cleaning
  products instead of chemical ones, and youll
  find a vast selection of these in all good
  homeware stores.

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• Make your own, natural cleaning products
• The internet and housekeeping magazines are awash
  with recipes for homemade, natural cleaning
  products, and the logic behind them using them is
  hopefully self -explanatory. Not only do you get
  to keep your home clean without using harmful
  chemicals, but often these products are cheaper
  and smell more pleasant, too.

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• Use natural, reusable cleaning tools and
  accessories
• Our automatic reaction when a sponge becomes
  grubby or a mop begins to smell, is to throw them
  out and replace them, but if we used items such
  as old t-shirts and rags to clean with, we can
  wash them and reuse them, without the need to
  dispose of them. Using rags instead of paper
  towels saves trees, and sponges often contain
  harmful ingredients, so use rags in their place.

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• Stop using chlorine bleach
• Disinfectants such as chlorine bleach are linked
  to cancer causing chemicals, and using bleach at
  home can cause these chemicals to form in the
  waste water stream. There are many alternatives
  to chlorine bleach that are just as effective at
  killing germs, simply visit your local natural
  food store and ask the shopkeeper.

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• Save water
• One of our most precious resources is water, and
  its fast diminishing. Not wasting water is one
  simple way in which you can help protect the
  environment, and can be achieved in myriad ways,
  such as not running the faucet while you brush
  your teeth, taking shorter showers and sweeping
  your floors instead of mopping them.

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• The environment belongs to us all and with so
  many simple and cost-effective ways to protect it
  when cleaning our homes, there really is no
  excuse for harming it.
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