10 All-Natural Household Cleaning Products
Method French Lavender All Surface Cleaner
Price: approx. $4.00
Where To Buy: Target, Whole Foods Market, Babies R Us or MethodHome.com
This lavender-scented spray by Method is good for cleaning most surfaces in your home, including tile, marble, sealed wood and metal. The spray is non-toxic and biodegradable, with simple ingredients you can actually pronounce: purified water, corn and coconut derivatives, soda ash and fragrance oil. In my experience, Method All Surface Cleaner may need to sit a little longer on tough messes to be effective. It does, however, offer major benefits to environmentally-conscious consumers, with attractive packaging, the non-toxic formula and total lack of testing on animals.
Seventh Generation Emerald Cypress & Fir Tub & Tile Cleaner
Price: approx. $4.19
Where To Buy: Target, Walgreens, Kroger, Marsh, Whole Foods Market
Seventh Generation pulls no punches when it comes to the ingredients in their cleaning products, including the Emerald Cypress & Fir Tub & Tile Cleaner. This bathroom cleaner spray contains ingredients like water, lactic acid, cypress and balsam fir. But it also includes ingredients like polyglucose, sodium hydroxide and coceth-4. If those ingredients sound less than natural and make you a little nervous, never fear – the Seventh Generation site provides easy access to all of the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) on all of their ingredients. That way, you know exactly what those tongue-twisting agents are, and that what you’re getting is really, truly natural.
Begley’s Best All-Purpose Cleaner
Price: $6.00
Where To Buy: BegleysBest.com
Actor Ed Begley, Jr. has developed the Begley’s Best line of household cleaners in an effort to make environmental living easy for everyday people. All ingredients in this cleaner will biodegrade in a mere three to seven days. Some of the ingredients include pine and palm extract, de-acified citrus, maize, fermented cane sugar and olive seed. Not only harmless, this cleaner has actually been certified as a biological nutrient. It works well on countertops, floors, bathroom surfaces and more.
Seaside Naturals Peppermint Glass Cleaner
Price: $6.99
Where To Buy: SeasideNaturalsOnline.com
Glass cleaner is commonly known for the overwhelming ammonia fumes that tend to accompany it. Believe it or not, this highly-effective, all-natural peppermint glass cleaner by Seaside Naturals removes waxy build-up left on glass surfaces. No dangerous fumes, and no toxic run-off. The peppermint essential oils also offer the benefit of repelling insects from your windows during the hot summer months.
Method OMOP Lemon Ginger All Floor Care Kit
Price: $30.00
Where To Buy: Target, Whole Foods Market, Babies R Us or MethodHome.com
As an admitted mop-hater, when I first discovered the Swiffer floor care system, I was blown away. It was much easier to keep my floors clean. In a house with two kids, a dog and two cats, that’s a really big deal. But one thing always bothered me. The Swiffer produces almost constant waste, through bottles that must be replaced instead of refilled and mop pads that must be used and thrown away. The Method All Floor Care Kit resolves those environmental issues, with compostable, corn-based cleaning cloths! The refreshing lemon ginger extracts are a plus, too. Just clean, toss and enjoy the sweet smell of clean floors.
Greenworks Natural Toilet Bowl Cleaner
Price: $4.69 – Drugstore.com
Where To Buy: major retailers (unspecified)
Due to popular consumer demand, the Clorox company has developed an all-natural line of cleaning products over the past five years. The Green Works Natural Toilet Bowl Cleaner is one of the best all-natural products they have to offer. Toilet bowl cleaners are known to be harsh and full of dangerous, caustic chemicals. This natural toilet bowl cleaner gets a perfect clean with natural ingredients, like filtered water, lemon oil, glycerine, a coconut-based cleaning agent and lactic acid, with xantham gum acting as a natural thickener for a lasting clean. This product has worked as well as other, traditional cleaners, with fewer fumes and less guilt!
Basic H2 Organic Super Cleaning Wipes
Price: $8.95 – Shaklee.net
Where To Buy: online
Cleaning wipes are all the rage, and it’s no wonder why. For busy moms trying to wrangle rowdy kids, finding the paper towels and spray cleaners while making sure baby doesn’t eat the dog food is a little overwhelming. But regular cleaning wipes leave behind a trail of waste – used cleaning tissues that inevitably end up in our country’s landfills. Basic H2 has addressed that problem with it’s new product, the H2 Organic Super Cleaning Wipes. The wipes are 100% biodegradable, so you can toss them without the guilt.
Original Simple Green All-Purpose Spray
Price: $5.99 – BuySimpleGreen.com
Where To Buy: online and major retailers
Simple Green led the charge on environmentally-sensitive cleaning more than thirty years ago. This Simple Green All-Purpose Spray works for many different uses, from walls and mirrors to pots and pans. The spray works as well as similar name-brand sprays, at a reasonable cost to consumers.
Method Wood For Good Almond Surface Cleaner
Price: $5.00
Where To Buy: Target, Babies R Us, Whole Foods Market or MethodHome.com
A natural wood cleaner with no waxy build-up? Method has created this spray to enhance the beauty of your wood without creating a harmful waxy build-up. Made with purified water, Omega-9 fatty acids, glycerin and fragrant oils, it conditions your beautiful wood surfaces without introducing toxic fumes into your homes.
Sun & Earth Automatic Dishwasher Detergent
Price: $5.49
Where To Buy: online
Now, there’s even a biodegradable automatic dish detergent. After all, after washing our dishes, that detergent ends up directly in our water supply. Finding an all-natural detergent that won’t leave toxins behind for that purpose just makes sense. This dish detergent comes in packs to avoid the mess of measuring detergent and is safe for all septic systems.
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