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Article: Green cleaning: tackle spring cleaning the natural way--with cleaning supplies that are healthy for your body, your home, and the planet.(GOING GREEN: simple ways to care for the planet)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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With an arsenal of cleaning supplies handily available on aisle seven, plus the fact that I abhor cleaning, it hadn't crossed my mind to make my own natural products.
Yet when my wobbly nephew recently chewed the edge of the coffee table, fleshly smeared with jelly, I raced to the rescue. I want him to be able to lick every surface in the house in a gross-yet-worry-free spree of toddlerness. But I've used commercial cleaning agents throughout my home with unspellable and potent--even poisonous--components. What residues have I--and others--been unintentionally inhaling, absorbing through the skin, or even eating?
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