Green Cleaning for Dummies

Your ecofriendly guide to safer, healthier housekeeping Want to go green as you clean? This authoritative guide provides expert, proven advice on cleaning your home with organic, nontoxic, sustainable resources. From the kitchen and bath to the living room, laundry, and even your garage, you get green solutions for every common cleaning chore. Discover a new way to clean -- learn how natural methods can save you money while improving your health and the environment Get ready to go green -- prepare your house and assemble cleaning tools Protect your family -- know the right cleaners to avoid (and which ones you can make yourself) Tackle your inside spaces -- get green cleaning solutions for every room in the house and improve the efficiency of your appliances Go the extra mile -- go beyond cleaning with ways to conserve energy and reduce waste Open the book and find: A room-by-room breakdown of green cleaning tips Recipes for making your own cleaning products Cost-free changes to clean green Tips for improving your sleeping environment Small changes to ease cleaning and save resources Ways to consume fewer resources An appendix of clean, green organizations and programs