Go natural: class teaches how to clean with environmentally friendly products

Your house may be clean and fresh, clean without chemicals that most of us in the cabinet under the sink smell. Greenhouse cleaners are the subject of a seminar March 25 presented Bluegrass Green Source.

This is part of a group called Green Living Lab, designed to convey specific environmental skills, such as sustainable cuisine, from native plants seeds, way stations monarch butterfly, waste reduction to provide composting and traditional vermicomposting, the worms used leftovers and other organic materials to recycle in conditioner called vermicompost.

saving tips green cleaning, money are designed and use more natural ingredients that most people have already in your pantry, including vinegar, baking soda, salt and borax, said a Deb Larkin, Environmental Education Green teaches class.

"Not intended as a workshop on bio-detergents, but to be as green as possible," Larkin said.

These are usually called home cleaned generations their homes when the stores are filled with a range of cleaning products for household use: polished wood furnishings, granite cleaning, toilet bowls disinfection and removal a ring around the tub.

"The people know what they had. These cleaners are effective, less harsh on the skin and less harmful to the environment" grew up, Larkin, who used her grandmother many cleaning products that will be taught at the workshop, he said.

For sparkling windows, participants are a window cleaner who borax, white vinegar and baking soda.

To clean tile floors, shock Larkin a solution of baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and the essential oil of tea tree. "The tea tree oil is a powerful antiseptic that a fungicide and kills bacteria spores," he said.

For cleaning and polishing wooden floors, vegetable oil, beeswax melted seven essential oils combined.

Essential oils are natural substances in plants. The oils are very concentrated, so a little goes a long way.

Most essential oils natural disinfectants are so Larkin. Some of the most are bergamot, cinnamon, clove, eucalyptus, grapefruit, lavender, lemon, lemongrass, lime, orange, pine, rosemary, tea tree niaouli and thyme.

They can be used in diffusers germs to kill in the air. Or to clean warm water put seven drops in a cup, the surfaces of the bathrooms and kitchen.

Larkin makes a liquefied natural hand sanitizer with witch hazel, aloe vera, vitamin E and essential oil. "Do not dry your hands, and you know what's inside," he said.

She is environmental education with experience teaching preschool children to the fifth year in several countries in central Kentucky. Before Green was the botanist in Shaker Village Pleasant Hill.

You might wonder, it having to clean the your home is not enough to first cleaner without? Larkin said that if you make your own household cleaning products, "the ingredients you use in your home, so you save money and then know exactly what is in the product.."

During the presentation classes for adults often he asked about the chemicals in household products. "These are people concerned about what comes into contact with the skin, the impact on your family environment and the impact on the environment in general," he said.

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