Is it gonna take more than elbow grease to de-grime your place?

04.14.2008

The Bite:
Sounds like you need an eco-cleanie in a bottle. Our top picks for every kind of home cleaning will help freshen up your flying carpets and make your magic lamps shine, while helping you avoid rubbing grime the wrong way: with caustic chems.
The Benefits: 
  • Getting your third wish. After world peace and an end to global warming, an always-spotless house is at the top of our wish lists.
  • Protecting kiddos. Conventional cleaning products are responsible for about 10% of toxic-exposure calls to poison control.
  • Cleaner streams. High concentrations of detergents were found in 69% of waterways in a 2002 nationwide study.
Personally Speaking: 
We hate cleaning. But the Eco-Me DIY cleaning supplies kit almost made cleaning fun. Almost.
Wanna Try: 
  • Eco-Me Home Kit - refillable, easy-measure bottles and natural organic oils make it supereasy to whip up your own cleaning supplies with household items like baking soda and vinegar ($26).

Carpets

Dishes

Floors

  • Method Omop Starter Kit - avoid Swiffer-like waste with a washable, reusable pad plus biodegradable floor-cleaning liquid ($30).

Surfaces

Toilets

Windows/Surfaces

Wood

 

  • About.com - baking soda, lemon juice, and vinegar are great natural cleaners if you're into DIY.

Cocktail Fact

The genie worked its magic: The song "A Whole New World" from Aladdin is the only song from a Disney film to have reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts.

Bang For The Bite

If 10,000 Biter households halve the amount of hazardous chems we use, we'll avert the weight of 568 oriental carpets (flying or otherwise) in dangerous waste.

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