[Greenbuilding] Green Cleaners

Wed Dec 6 01:03:04 CST 2006

Steve Tvedent of getipm.com has a Enzyme cleaner that is pretty safe 
overall.  He has 2 types one with and one without peppermint.  Since I am 
sensitive to peppermint I use the other one.  But the one wiht peppermint 
is a very effective pesticide

  I use the enzyme cleaner sans peppermint on 
our marble floors and 
also wood floors with no adverse effects on either myself or the floors.

I would not attempt to use it to wash veggies...but, when I find a 
anthill, I squirt it in add water and thats the end of that hill for good.

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Tim Vireo Keating wrote:

> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:36:14 -0500
> From: Tim Vireo Keating <t.keating at rainforestrelief.org>
> To: Lawrence Lile <LLile at projsolco.com>, greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Green Cleaners
> 
> For the kitchen floor, I simply use whatever dish detergent I have on
> hand, either Seventh Generation or Sun & Earth (whichever I find on
> sale). I put a bit on the sponge mop and that's all I need. Go over
> it once with the soap and then wring out the mop with water and hit
> it one more time to take the soap up. Heck, use your Dr. Bronners,
> for that matter! It's so 'clean' you don't have to worry about
> getting all the soap up. I even wash my fruit and veggies with that.
>
> tim keating
>
> At 7:55 AM -0600 12/4/06, Lawrence Lile wrote:
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>> I've become more and more able to notice how irritating commercial soaps
>> and cleaners are.  Most of them make my eyes water, throat scratch, and
>> promote asthma.  It's not just me, my whole family has this reaction.
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>> The first warning shot was a couch I bought at a garage sale.  I thought
>> I'd buy a bottle of upholstery cleaner to clean it before bringing it
>> into my living room.  That stuff had so much weird perfume in it I could
>> hardly use it.  Then the couch stank so bad I could hardly stand it.
>> I'd start getting itchy eyes and throat whenever I sat on it.  Several
>> washings with plain soap and water couldn't take the stuff out.  I
>> finally threw the couch away.  So much for cleaning.
>>
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>> I discovered the same thing with commercial laundry detergent - so much
>> perfume I can't stand to sleep in the sheets, and it makes me sick.  Out
>> went the Grocery store laundry soap, in went the Green products, with no
>> perfume and really concentrated.  $11 a gallon, but if you do the math,
>> you use so little that it's the same price as those giant bottles of
>> mostly water in the grocery store.
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>> Ivory Bar soap is 99 44/100% pure! The other 66/100% is pure allergens!
>> The bathroom contains Dr. Bronner's, no bar soap in sight.  All One! Bar
>> Soap None! OK!
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>> For years I've cleaned floors with straight ammonia (saved from the old
>> diazo process blueprint machines) I cut the stuff 20:1.  It's pretty
>> horrible smelling, and my whole household objects. Strip the hide off a
>> bear. Maybe not such a good idea. But it was free, and the odor clears
>> in an hour and nobody feels sick afterwards.
>>
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>>
>> I tried a commercial floor cleaner, and we were treated to a day of
>> scratchy throats, runny noses and red eyes. What an irritating mess! I
>> wish I'd left the dirt on the kitchen floor.  My wife, who rarely mops
>> the floor (that's a MAN'S job in our house!) re-mopped the kitchen with
>> plain water until the stench cleared.  So much for Ajax floor cleaner.
>> It definitely is stronger than dirt, I'd rate it about as strong as
>> Ragweed Pollen, Cat Hair, and Sneezing Powder.
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>> How do companies get away with selling this toxic stuff?  Why do we buy
>> it? You can't even make a decent bicycle without being sued out of
>> existence <http://www.bicycleman.com/recumbents/bike_e/bike_e.htm> , why
>> aren't people suing soap mfrs for selling toxic cleaners?  Anybody want
>> a half a bottle of Ajax floor cleaner cheap?
>>
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>>
>> And a serious question - What do people use to clean their kitchen
>> floors that preserves indoor air quality and doesn't cost an arm and a
>> leg?
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>> Lawrence Lile, P.E.
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