The Simple Green Spray and Refill Bottle System of Housecleaning
Simple Green is sold in a spray bottle as well as in a half-gallon or gallon jug of concentrate. The concentrate should be kept in an area away from young children, or diluted immediately into 15 gallons of spray or cleaning fluid. Some office supply stores still sell file cabinets with locking drawers that are ideal places to store the commercial-grade concentrate. Another vendor of this type of “green” cleaning product is Greenway the Cleanway, which usually only sells to commercial accounts. The empty refills of Simple Green clean out easily, and will provide a bucket of cleaning fluid for your bottles, cans and jars that go in the recycling bin.
There are competing brands, such as Go Green, by USA Labs, which are a similar product, that work just about like the Simple Green cleanser does. These products are sold at retail stores, and are sometimes found at discount/liquidation stores such as Odd Lot. When the spray bottle is empty, or less than half-full, adding a few ounces of Simple Green concentrate and some water will refill the bottle with cleaning fluid, and the bottle will already be clearly labeled.
Clorox Green Works natural cleanser is a product that is also similar to a dilute Simple Green, and is a sturdy and effective spray bottle to use for Simple Green cleanser. The Clorox bathroom cleanser more closely resembles a double-strength formulation of Simple Green, which is also fabulous.
I’ve used Simple Green to mop up chimney puff-backs, to wash walls, to clean up messy litter box areas (original scent only, the lemon is used on areas where cats or dogs are not supposed to be going), to wash off counters, walls, gently detail computers, wash automobiles, as well as many other uses similar to what a lot of other Associate Content users are doing, with similar products, such as Zep, which is also sold in spray bottles, as well as the refill size.
I like Simple Green as the product is to household cleaners what cake mixes are to cakes, the product can be made to order from the spray bottle, also, as well as from the refill bottle. Adding a few caps of mouthwash to a half-empty spray bottle of Simple Green, and then filling the bottle up to the top makes a great minty-fresh cleaning product, for instance.
The lemon Simple Green is a product that allows for custom-blended, small bottle of lemon-fresh cleanser made with a real lemon, which also blends well with the original Simple Green formula and water.
A lot of people here at Associated Content are writing articles about green cleaning products. Here are a few that I have thumbed through, that you could also find to be useful reading, the authors have some useful ideas about what to use, as well as how to make your own cleaning products.
Suggested Reading: Cleaning Green: How Much Does it Really Cost? by Lissa B., Associated Content; Green Kitchen Basics, by Virginia Ginsburg, Searchwarp; Green Works vs. Seventh Generation, by Irene Lynn, Associated Content; Review: Method Cleaning Products, by Chloe Xanthis, Associated Content; Product Review: Sun & Earth by Sadie Cherico, Associated Content
Sources: SimpleGreen
