02 Jul 09 Natural Alternatives To Floor Cleaning

Most people don’t necessarily even realize how harmful the chemicals you may use every day to clean your floors and countertops, can be to your health and the environment. The shocking fact that you may not even realize, is that on average houses that use these sorts of chemicals can have 50 times the amount of pollutants and toxins than an outdoor environment. Meaning the inside of your house can be fairly unhealthy, if you’re breathing in all those chemicals for a prolonged amount of time like you’ll no doubt be doing, considering you live there. But there are plenty of environmentally friendly alternatives that work just as well as harsh chemicals. This way you’ll leave yourself with a cleaner fresher home.

The absolute truth about what you’re doing using most cleaning chemicals, is essentially just spreading around harmful toxins that make your floors and countertops shine at a cost to your own health. Using them for a prolonged period of time builds up the harmful chemicals they leave behind, each time adding to the amount of formaldehyde and chloroform building up in your home. Eventually you breathe in those chemicals, or come into contact with them on your bare skin, which can produce any number of medical complications down the road.

Ultimately you want to stay away from any conventional cleaning products as much as possible, anything that gives your floor extra shine is full of harmful chemicals, and anything that is meant to carry a pleasant fragrance, also is loaded with harmful toxins that you’ll be breathing. Instead work towards prevention of dirt on your floors by putting floor mats in front of all doors. Vacuum or dust-mop more often so that you can eliminate dust and dirt before it piles up.

For cleaning solutions, use simple more environmentally friendly alternatives, such as natural cleaners that use citrus instead of harmful chemicals to penetrate dirt. Or solutions made from water and dishwashing detergent will give your floor the same clean look without the harmful chemicals.

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