Discard Your Chemical Bathroom Cleaners

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You might have the in-laws coming to visit, or perhaps there are some good friends visiting for dinner. You have flicked through your favourite receipe books attempting to discover something a little out of the ordinary that you're feeling confident enough to cook well.

You purchase the ingredients and spend the whole afternoon doing the cooking. Everything is going well and you're feeling pretty happy as you complete your cooking. Then you decide to relax for a bit, but just as you wander down the hallway, you glimpse the bathroom and you realise with a sinking feeling that there is the need to do some cleaning.

You have been contemplating using eco-friendly ways to clean up your bathroom, and you've stocked up with the appropriate supplies. But the guests are are going to turn up soon and you wonder if you should just revert back to the normal chemical cleaners that fill your cupboard in the bathroom. But no, have made the decision to do the correct thing and this is an opportunity to give it a chance. And if it does not, well, it should be a enjoyable dinner topic.

What you need to take into ...
... account about chemical cleaning products that you purchase from your supermarket or store, is that, although they do the task, they may have a significant impact upon the environment. There will be risks from putting such toxins inside of sewer systems. Most of the time this will be okay, but sometimes in various areas, if there's a downpour, the sewer system may be inundated and the sewer system overflow may go inside of the stormwater system and this might, in its turn, be discharged into our environment.

Chemical cleaning products additionally make use of such strong chemicals that they are labelled to keep out of reach of youngsters and instructions on what you have to do if you swallow, inhale, or even let them to contact your skin. Cleaning your bathroom is, simply, a hazard to your health.

You put in so much effort to keep everything hygienic and yet the substances you are using to clean up, may ironically end up being even worse for you than a bathroom that has not been cleaned. This will be particularly the case if you are using chemical products to clean up blockages in your pipes. These chemical products are so toxic, do ensure you wear the appropriate gloves and even mask if required.

And even the antibacterial soap that's labelled as 99.9 percent strong at killing germs, may be detrimental to your ongoing health. There's a gathering impetus to stop the use of these soaps particularly from villages for retired people and for use by youngsters. This will be for the same reason that antibiotics are now being overwhelmed by super bugs because of the over subscription of antibiotics over the past generation of doctors. The more you wash with the soap, the less your body is experienced at beating the germs by itself, and the more chance there is of more super bugs being developed. Washing your hands frequently with normal soap is quite sufficient.

So, with a great degree of determination, you head into the bathroom. You look inside of the cupboard with your alternative cleaning products. There's the fresh club soda which is a polisher and stain remover. Liquid castile soap is an all-purpose cleaner, disinfectant and grease-cutter. White vinegar is an antifungal that gets rid of bacteria. Baking soda gets rid of smells and may be used as a gentle scouring powder. White vinegar is an antifungal that gets rid of bacteria. Borax gets rid of smells, removes dirt and acts as an antifungal. Borax is the common name for the natural mineral compound sodium borate. Hydrogen peroxide (3 percent concentration) is a stain remover, disinfectant and a non toxic bleach.

These are the basic ingredients you may use by themselves, or you may use them in combination to clean up your bathroom so that it's sparking clean. For example you may create an all purpose cleaner with a mixture 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, particularly, is because the internet has a wealth of information on eco-friendly solutions and is your first-stop resource for discovering these sorts of useful solutions.

Put two tablespoons of white vinegar and 1 teaspoon of borax inside of a 16 oz. spray bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle with very hot water and shake until the borax has totally dissolved. Then add 1/4 of a cup of liquid castile soap. This should provide you with a very useful all purpose cleaner that you may use for cleaning everything in your bathroom. There's an even simpler possibility with two cups of club soda mixed up in a spray bottle.

You can clean your glass with club soda and one teaspoon of lemon juice in a spray bottle. You will discover this limits those niggling streaks of a number of chemical cleaners.

You can remove mould, all too often a problem in the bathroom, with a mixture of 1/2 of one cup of hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar with one cup of water. Spray onto the mould and do not rinse. You can 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. Either sprinkle in baking soda or borax, or pour in white venegar. Then, rather than using a standard floor cleaner from your local supermarket or store, you may mix liquid castile soap, white vinegar and luke-warm water in a large bucket. This will do just as great a job as any business cleaner and your bathroom and you and your family's health should benefit from it.

Of course, you may use baking soda and vinegar to unblock your pipes, so really, you may pretty well solve and clean virtually everything in your bathroom with natural ingredients where you normally use chemical products. And don't forget that you may disinfect your cloths and sponges by boiling them in water for three minutes and then microwave for an extra minute.
Scott Rodgers is a recently retired Los Angeles master plumber and strives to supply healthy alternative possibilities to clean and fix your bathroom and plumbing issues. For more useful tips and information, visit Scott's website: http://eLocalPlumbers.com