This Eco Friendly Washer Cleaner is a developed, slow-dissolve, foaming tablet that gets under residue, breaks it up, and washes it away leaving the washer smelling fresh and clean. It removes and prevents odor-causing residue that can occur in all washers. While bleach only kills odor-causing bacteria leaving behind the detergent residue, this Eco Friendly Washer Cleaner uses surfactant chemistry to remove the root problem. And of course, It is environmentally friendly!
Avoid landfill-clogging dryer sheets and liquid fabric softeners full of dangerous toxins. If you haven’t heard, Green Dryer Balls offer an eco-friendly, nontoxic and hypo-allergenic way to naturally soften your laundry. There are so many positives to this product, I don’t know where to start. Dryer Balls last for hundreds of uses and cuts down on drying time, therefore saving you money and energy; your fabrics will dry softer without the use of harmful chemicals; they reduce wrinkles and they make ironing easier.
This Natural Degreaser has a unique advanced technology blend of natural citrus and organic solvents and is non-corrosive and effective for use on all metals. It’s even suitable for use on some plastics. It removes corrosion, grease, adhesive, oil, and sludge. It’s resistant to the corrosive process.
This all purpose, industrial strength, concentrated Biodegradable Cleaner & Degreaser removes grease, carbon, ink, mildew, oil, soot, tar and wax. This biodegradable cleaner is a multi purpose cleaner and can be diluted economically. Comes in industrial size and domestic sized bottles. And it’s blue!
First you’ll need to gather all your ingredients. These include non-sudsing household ammonia,
white vinegar, cornstarch, warm water and a 32 fl oz spray bottle. In a 32 fluid ounce spray bottle with a tight-fitting lid, mix 1/4 cup household ammonia, 1/4 cup white vinegar, and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Fill the remainder of the container with warm water. Replace the tight fitting lid and shake well to mix.
Here’s what you need:
1 bar of soap (whatever kind you like)
1 box of washing soda (in the laundry detergent aisle at a department store - it comes in an Arm & Hammer box)
1 box of borax.
A five gallon bucket with a lid (or a bucket that will hold more than 15 liters)
- Three gallons of tap water
- A big spoon to stir the mixture with
- A measuring cup
- A knife
Step One: Put about four cups of water into a pan on your stove and turn the heat up on high until it’s almost boiling. While you’re waiting, whip out a knife and start shaving strips off of the bar of soap into the water, whittling it down. Keep the heat below a boil and keep shaving the soap. Eventually, you’ll shave up the whole bar, then stir the hot water until the soap is dissolved and you have some highly soapy water.
Step Two: Put three gallons of hot water (11 liters or so) into the five gallon bucket - the easiest way is to fill up three gallon milk jugs worth of it. Then mix in the hot soapy water from step one, stir it for a while, then add a cup of the washing soda. Keep stirring it for another minute, then add a half cup of borax if you are using borax. Stir for another couple of minutes, then it all sit overnight to cool.
That’s that! The next day, you’ll have a bucket of gelatinous goo that’s a paler shade of the soap that you used. One measuring cup full of this goo will be about what you need to do a load of laundry - and the ingredients are basically the same as laundry detergent. Thus, out of three gallons, you’ll get about 48 loads of laundry. If you do this six times, you’ll have used six bars of soap ($0.99 each), one box of washing soda ($2.49), and about half a box of borax ($2.49) and make 288 loads of laundry. This comes up to a cost of right around three cents a gallon, or a savings of $70!!!
Long considered a household cleaning product by legions of people for many generations, bleach is a scary toxic fluid that should be used rarely, if at all. Chlorine bleach releases dioxin, furans and other organochlorines into the air, can cause sore throats, coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs and studies have shown a relationship between dioxin exposure and cancer, birth defects, and developmental/reproductive disorders.
What can you use as an alternative to bleach? A number of things (not combined however) are great alternatives. The following ingredients can be used in varying amounts to whiten and clean your clothes - vinegar, lemon juice, hydrogen peroxide, oxygen, borax, washing soda, sodium hydrosulfite - more simply known as salt and water.
White vinegar is one of the cheapest and most versatile cleaners around. It does not streak, it is safe for hands and it is environmentally friendly. Here are a few great tips for using vinegar in the kitchen:
Eliminate cooking odors by using 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to 1 cup of water. Boil white vinegar in water to eliminate unappealing odors left over from cooking.
Eliminate odors in a smoke-filled room by placing a small bowl of white vinegar in the room.
Jars. Eliminate the odors of peanut butter, tomato sauce or mayonnaise from jars you want to keep by thoroughly rinsing them out with white vinegar.
Remove coffee or tea stains from china cups using an equal mixture of salt and white vinegar. Remove spots on stainless steel by rubbing kitchen items with a cloth dampened in white vinegar.
To loosen hard-to-clean stains in aluminum, glass or porcelain pots or pans, use ¼ cup of white vinegar to 2 cups of water. Boil white vinegar with water in the pan. Wash in hot, soapy water afterwards.
Clean glassware using ½ cup of white vinegar to 1 gallon of water. When white vinegar is added to rinse water, it will help eliminate dull soap film from glassware and leave it looking sparkly. Soak pots and pans stained with food in white vinegar for a half an hour. Afterwards rinse in hot, soapy water.
Use vinegar to clean your microwave oven. Add ½ cup of white vinegar to 1 cup of water in an uncovered bowl and place in the microwave oven. Set on high for 3 to 4 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes. Finish by wiping out the oven cavity.
Unclog a coffee maker by adding white vinegar to the 6-cup level and water to the 10-cup level. Then put in an empty paper filter. Turn on the coffee maker and complete the brew cycle. After the cycle is complete, discard the vinegar solution and used paper filter. Run the coffee maker for a complete cycle with fresh water before brewing coffee.
SoyGel Paint and Varnish Remover is made with 100% American Grown Soybeans. It is totally non-Hazardous, non-Caustic and 100% biodegradable. Just one gallon of this Non Toxic Paint and Varnish Remover gives you approximately 200 square feet of coverage. That’s three times the coverage of most traditional strippers. With Soy Gel you won’t have to deal with harsh chemical odors that accompany most other harsh paint strippers.
These fascinating laundry discs claim to be one of the most effective ways to naturally clean your clothes, without the need for the usual quantities of traditional detergents - saving up to 90% of your laundry detergent. Each disc contains electrically charged ceramic beads that creat hydronium and hydroxide ions in the wash which softens the water for better cleaning, which dramatically reducing soap use.