You may have the parents round to visit, or maybe there are some good friends coming to visit for dinner. You've looked through the recipe books trying to find something a little bit unusual that you are feeling confident enough to cook.!br>
You purchase the ingredients and spend the whole afternoon in the kitchen. Everything is going great and you are feeling pretty happy as you complete your cooking. Then you decide to relax for an hour, but as you meander down the hall, you catch a glimpse of the bathroom and you realise with a depressing feeling that you have to do some cleaning.
You've been thinking about using eco-friendly ways to clean your bathroom, and you've purchased the supplies. But your guests are coming soon and you wonder if you will just revert to the standard chemical cleaners that fill your cupboard in the bathroom. But no, have made the decision to do the right thing and this is an opportunity to give it a go. And if it doesn't, well, it will be a fun dinner topic.
What you need to consider about chemical cleaning products that you purchase from your store or supermarket, is that, although they do the job, they may significantly impact on our environment. There will be risks from putting these sort of toxins inside sewer systems. Much of the time this is going to be ok, but sometimes in various areas, if there is a downpour, the sewer system may be overwhelmed and the sewer system overflow may go inside the stormwater system and this may, in its turn, be discharged into your environment.
Chemical cleaning products additionally use such strong chemicals that they are labelled to keep out of reach of children and instructions on what you have to do if you swallow, inhale, or even permit them to come into contact with your skin. Cleaning your bathroom is, quite simply, a health hazard.
You put in so much effort to keep everything adequately hygienic and yet the substances you're using to clean, may ironically end up being even worse for you than a bathroom that has not been cleaned. This is particularly true if you're using chemicals to clean blockages in your pipes. These chemicals are so poisonous, do make sure you wear the correct gloves and even mask if required.
And even the antibacterial soap that is labelled as 99.9% strong at killing germs, may be bad to your health. There's a gathering movement to ban these soaps especially from villages for retired people and for use by children. This is for the same reason that antibiotics are currently being overwhelmed by super bugs because of the over subscription of antibiotics over the past generation of doctors. The more you use the soap, the less your body is used to beating the germs by itself, and the greater chance there is of more super bugs being developed. Washing your hands often with standard soap is quite sufficient.
So, with a degree of determination, you head into the bathroom. You look inside the cupboard with the alternative cleaners. There's the fresh club soda which is a polisher and stain remover. Liquid castile soap is an all-purpose cleaner, grease-cutter and disinfectant. White vinegar is an antifungal that gets rid of bacteria. Baking soda gets rid of unpleasant smells and may be used as a gentle scouring powder. White vinegar is an antifungal that gets rid of bacteria. Borax gets rid of unpleasant smells, takes away dirt and can act as an antifungal. Borax is the common name for the natural mineral compound sodium borate. Hydrogen peroxide (3% concentration) is a stain remover, disinfectant and a non poisonous bleach.
These are the very simple ingredients you may use by themselves, or it is possible to use them in combination to clean your bathroom so that it's sparking clean. For example it is possible to make an all purpose cleaner using a combination of white vinegar, borax and liquid castile soap. I found this on the internet and the credit goes to Karen Logan. The reason I point this out, especially, is because the internet has a wealth of information on eco-friendly solutions and is your first-stop resource for finding these kinds of helpful solutions.
Place 2 Tbsp. of white vinegar and 1 tsp. of borax inside a 16 oz. spray bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle with hot water and shake until the borax has completely dissolved. Then add one quarter of a cup of liquid castile soap. This will give you with an excellent all purpose cleaner that it is possible to use for cleaning all the things in your bathroom. There's an even simpler possibility using 2 cups of club soda mixed up in a spray bottle.
You may clean your glass using club soda and one tsp. of lemon juice in a spray bottle. You'll find this limits those frustrating streaks of many chemical cleaners.
You may take out mould, often a problem in the bathroom, with a combination of 1/2 of a cup of hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar with one cup of water. Spray on the mould and do not rinse off. You may additionally apply a combination of 2 teaspoons of tea tree oil and two cups of water.
There's even a alternative solution for the toilet bowl. Either sprinkle in baking soda or borax, or pour in white venegar. Then, instead of using a standard floor cleaner from the local store or supermarket, it is possible to mix up liquid castile soap, white vinegar and warm water in a large bucket. This will do just as good a job as any business cleaner and your bathroom and you and your family's health will benefit from it.
Of course, it is possible to use vinegar and baking soda to unblock your pipes, so in reality, it is possible to pretty well solve and clean virtually all the things in your bathroom with natural ingredients where you normally use chemical products. And remember that it is possible to disinfect your sponges and cloths by boiling them in water for three minutes and then microwave for an extra minute.