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Non-Toxic Alternatives for a Safer, Healthier Home
Water sustains our lives.
We have to act in ways that sustain our water by using the safest possible products, because they go down the drain.
Make your own safe cleaning products.
From the US Department of Agriculture:
If the labels on your household
cleaning products read:
CAUTION – WARNING
or DANGER
Change to
The 5 basic alternatives
BAKING SODA – BORAX*
WASHING SODA*
LEMON JUICE – WHITE VINEGAR*found with laundry detergents
4 EASY RECIPES FOR GENERAL CLEANING
STAIN REMOVAL ALTERNATIVES
Blood: Soak in cold H2O. Wash with soap in cold H2O.
Chocolate, Coffee: Sponge with cold H2O & with solution of 2 T. borax & 2 cups H2O.
Juice: Pour boiling H2O over spot & wash as usual.
Ink: Soak in cold water; apply a paste of cream of tartar & lemon juice; let sit 1 hr.; wash
Mildew: Wash in hot soapy H2O; rinse & dry in sun
Perspiration: Sponge stain with solution of baking soda & H2O; or soak in H2O with 2 dissolved aspirins
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