How to make Bleach Alternative and have a safe and healthy home!

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Just the smell of bleach is enough to make you not feel well!
Makes breathing difficult & eyes water. Bleach is a strong corrosive. It will irritate or burn the skin, eyes and respiratory tract. It causes pulmonary edema or vomiting and coma if ingested.
WARNING! Never mix bleach with ammonia it may cause fumes which may be deadly.
So what do you do?

Chlorine bleach is very hard on your clothes. Not to mention the
environment. Definitely not safe for our kids!

To whiten clothes add a cup of lemon juice to the wash cycle to boost the whitening
action of your laundry detergent.
If stains are heavy them pour the lemon juice over the stain then rub the area with salt. Then place the garment out in the sun for several hours.Wash as usual.


Counter tops and hard surfaces Mix a paste of Lemon juice and baking soda. Apply the mixture to the stain, allow it to sit for several hours. Wipe clean and the stain should be gone.

Some hard core stains require a second treatment.


Plastic storage containers Make a paste of lemon juice and baking soda to remove stains.


To Sanitize Fill a spray bottle with the juice of 1 lemon, fill with water.

Spray the area then rinse with water.



WHY THIS METHOD WORKS!


The citrus acid in the lemon acts as a natural stain remover, bleach and sanitizer.



What are the benefits of using lemon as bleach?



*Chlorine free


*Gentle on clothes and surfaces


*inexpensive


*Kid & Pet Safe (I think this is the best idea yet!)


*fume free!


*effective whitener and stain remover


*natural sanitizer



NEVER:

** Use lemon on marble or granite as it may cause etching **

Green Clean in the Laundry Room and more! What are Soap Nuts?

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If you are
going green then you will definitely want to incorporate Soap Nuts into
your healthy living program!
Soap Nuts have been around for thousands of years!

Soap Nuts are the dried fruit of the Chinese Soapberry tree. They come from Nepal and India.
They contain saponin, a natural cleaner used to clean clothes. Soap nuts come in two sizes the smaller one sapindus infoliatus and the larger one sapindus mukorossi. Both work great although the larger one is the one that is most commonly used.

Soap nuts get rid of nasty odors. If you have really tough stains, you can add 1/2 cup of lemon into your wash.

Soap nuts are natural and free from chemicals and fragrances. No need to worry about allergies. They are 100% non allergenic.

Soap nuts are so easy to use! Simply drop 4 to 5 nuts into a muslin bag
(I recommend adding 2 drops of Mother Earth Lavender Essential Oil to the nuts)
You now have scented laundry soap with medicinal additives!
Remove the muslin bag before putting the clothes into the dryer.

Another way to use soap nuts is to boil about 15-18 of them in 1.5 quarts of water.
You now have a concentrated liquid. You can add about 3 tablespoons of this to each load of laundry.

Soap nuts can be used to clean every room in the house! It can be used as a window and glass cleaner.
It repairs oily or dry hair.
Soap Nuts are a great multi-purpose cleaner.
Makes being green that much easier!

Soap nuts are anti-microbial (capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms)
They help break down the "gray" in your septic system.

Save water with Soap Nuts!


You don't have to use your rinse cycle with soap nuts. This can save you tons of gallons of water.
Just in case you forget to turn off the rinse cycle the saponin in the soap nuts acts as a softener

Soap Nuts are 100% environmentally friendly!