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Article: Clean bill of health; Nontoxic cleansers regaining popularity.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2007
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Byline: Jean Laquidara Hill
Once hard to find, lemon, orange, herb and vinegar-based cleaning products have gone mainstream. The new-age cleaners are stacked on shelves in chain stores alongside brand-name cleaners made with ammonia, chlorine and other common cleaning ingredients.
Practices of great-grandmothers are today's ingenuities. Baking soda, once relegated to being used a teaspoon at a time for baking, then pushed to the back of the refrigerator and forgotten, is fast becoming a super substance capable of scouring stovetops and bathtubs, deodorizing cat litter boxes and brightening teeth.
Sprinkled on a carpet, rubbed in and vacuumed up, ...