The Complete Guide to Eco-Friendly House Cleaning: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply

Anne Kocsis

Jan 2010 · Atlantic Publishing Company

About this ebook

For many years throughout the 20th Century, the conveniences of household cleaning items was such that no one asked where they came from or what they contained. Today, the consciousness of many consumers has started to advance due to ongoing environmental and economic concerns. For that reason, dozens of new products have developed on the market from Simple Green to Seventh Generation.
In addition to these green conscious products though, there are hundreds of ways you can change your house cleaning and maintenance to be eco-friendly, even making your own cleaning materials out of everyday items that have zero environmental impact. This book will guide you through the process of both recognizing and utilizing the most advanced eco-friendly house cleaning technology around, as well as tried and true cleaning methods that have been around for centuries.
You will learn all the necessities of green cleaning basics, starting with what your current cleaning products do to the environment, your home, and even your health. You will learn the necessary steps you need to take to transition your kitchen to green products as well as your bathroom, laundry, bedroom, and even the lights you use around your home. Learn how you can start using products that have been around for centuries and have since been forgotten in favor of dangerous chemicals.
Learn what you can do to clean up after your pets efficiently and how to keep your children safe from chemicals. Learn which mixtures work, which ones are unsafe, and what resources you can check for additional details you may need. Dozens of experts on green cleaning have been interviewed for this book, providing everything needed by any individual who wants to start changing how they clean their home for good.
Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Ratings and reviews

“The Complete Guide to Eco-Friendly House Cleaning” by Anne B. Kocsis educates the reader on how they can clean their home using all natural, safe products or by even making the cleaning solutions from scratch! Ms. Kocsis starts the book with a brief history of the environmental movement and how we came to be in this state where hazardous chemicals and substances are now commonplace in our society. She covers what antibacterial and green mean. Chapters 3 and 4 cover companies and products that are considered green and not harmful to your or your family’s health. She gives a short history on companies such as Method (started by two men who were roomies at Stanford), Biokleen , Mrs. Myer’s Clean Day, and Shaklee Products and then list the products they make that would make the green list. I liked it when Ms. Kocsis included her own experience with a product such as the Wash-It Laundry Ball and Simple Green. By including this personal information, it made it feel that she really did research these products and is giving a very informed opinion at them. Then came my favorite part of the book: the recipes! Did you know you can make furniture polish out of vinegar and olive oil? How about pesticides with garlic and hot sauce? It is amazing how much of the cleaning products we purchase for our homes we can make from basic ingredients around the house. I have already tried the wood floor polish (2 cups of olive oil and 2 cups of vinegar mixed) and toilet bowl cleaner (vinegar followed by baking soda) with good results. The rest of the book breaks down room by room and how to clean it from top to bottom, even the outdoors! This book is well researched and I really liked the way the author put in her experiences throughout the book. I know that I will keep it handy so that I can refer back to it when I need to clean or polish something. My only disappointment was that the index did not list the page numbers for the recipes in the book. When I was ready to try the wood floor cleaner, I went to the index to quickly locate the page it was on, but it wasn’t listed. So I had to go and page through the book to find it.