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Make Spring Cleaning a "Green Cleaning"
Best-selling Author Demonstrates Environmentally Safe Cleaning
By Annie Berthold-Bond
Spring is traditionally the time for major housekeeping activities. Unlike the routine dusting, wiping and vacuuming that go on with some regularly throughout the year, this is the season for cleaning underneath and behind things, rejuvenating the furniture, refreshing the carpets and airing out the house after a winter of confinement. What better way to start the season this year than with a "Green Spring Cleaning"?
One easy way to go about this is to follow the recipes for effective, inexpensive and environmentally safe cleaning supplies in the best-selling Clean & Green: The Complete Guide to Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping (Ceres Press, 1994). In fact, there are 485 of them.
"The nice thing about these formulas is that in addition to working so well, they are easy and quick to make," author Annie Berthold-Bond says. "And when you've finished your spring cleaning, it feels like spring indoors, as well as outside."
Here are some sample spring cleaning recipes from Clean & Green:
