Green clean like a cheap, lazy bo$$
Or if you can’t stand the news, rage clean with ketchup, peanut butter & go bonkers for free conkers (detergent) & more
12 min readAug 12, 2019
Updated July 27, 2024
Keep reading for:
- Reusable sponges and mop heads.
- A dish that won’t make soap bars soupy. Studies show people didn’t get bacterial infections or viral Ebola from sharing soap bars.
- Readymade cleaners and easiest recipes that don’t have these toxic chemicals:
- Ammonia can cause respiratory disease, liver and kidney toxicity, reproductive harm and central nervous disorders.
- Chlorine bleach can trigger asthma, can damage skin and eyes.
- “Quats” (alkyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride, known as quaternary ammonium disinfectants), can cause asthma.
- 2-butoxyethanol is linked to liver and kidney toxicity, blood disorders, and infertility.
- Monoethanolamine can trigger asthma and can cause tissue damage and shortness of breath
- Anything that says antibacterial or antimicrobial usually has triclosan, which is no better than soap and water. It creates cancer-causing chloroform when mixed with chlorine in tap water.