Go ahead and skip the ammonia that was listed as an ingredient in the homemade cleaners. It is a very volatile chemical with fumes that irritate eyes and lungs and is especially harmful to anyone with respiratory problems. All of the vinegar cleaner recipes work fine without the added ammonia.
Commercial cleaning products are among the most hazardous products you will find in your home. They contain chemicals that are toxic, corrosive, flammable, radioactive or act as irritants. The Consumer Product Safety Commission focuses only on the immediate effects a product can have, but ignore the possibility that they can have devastating effects over time. And that's how we are exposed to cleaning products... over time, daily, for years... and we forget they may be dangerous to us!
Non toxic cleaning can be done with very few ingredients, which are simple and inexpensive. For example, Clara decided to try out her artistic side with crayons on my tan colored footstool that goes with the glider rocker. Very pretty! I poured a bit of vinegar in a bowl, added some lemon juice to it, then scrubbed the crayon marks with a dish cloth. The crayon marks came out and the footstool was restored to its previous non-artsy look!
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It always amazes me how such simple things we have in our home can work better than those hazardous cleaners!
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