[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Re: Green Cleaners

[Lawrence Lile]

Dr. Bronner's is great stuff!  All One or None! OK!

 
 
Lawrence Lile, P.E., LEED AP

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Vireo Keating [mailto:t.keating at rainforestrelief.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:36 PM
To: Lawrence Lile; greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] Re: [Greenbuilding] Green Cleaners
Importance: Low

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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