{"id":8438,"date":"2010-08-17T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2010-08-17T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:11:42","slug":"eco-cleaning-tips-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/eco-cleaning-tips-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco Cleaning Your Home: Essential Tips That Can Also Keep Your Children Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to get your home just as clean without increasing your carbon footprint or endangering your children? Here are five tips to help you achieve your goal.<\/em><\/p>\n Many people are aware that cleaning products are not good for the environment, but they don’t necessarily want to sacrifice the cleanliness of their home. Luckily, you can get your home just as clean and still reduce your carbon footprint. In addition, by using products with less chemicals you can keep your children safe. Between 1990-2006 over 260,000 children under 5 were treated for household cleaning product injuries<\/a>. Here are six tips to help you achieve the goal of keeping your family safe, and eco cleaning your home:<\/p>\n As consumers have developed greater awareness to the dangers of harsh chemicals, more companies have started offering greener cleaning products, so luckily it is getting easier to find more environmentally-friendly products that are safe for your family. However, you usually pay a premium for these. If you want to clean naturally without the added cost, you can make most of your own cleaning products using common household ingredients that are all natural, and safe for your little ones.<\/p>\n Vera Mosley is a\u00a0writer\u00a0for Vacuum Home. Vacuum Home has quickly become a premier online retailer of residential and industrial vacuum cleaners<\/a>. Since our inception, our key objective has been to provide high-quality, competitively-priced vacuums.<\/em><\/p>\n Image credit: <\/strong>emrank at Flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to get your home just as clean without increasing your carbon footprint or endangering your children? Here are five tips to help you achieve your goal. Many people are [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":17655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[473,535,74,441,91,254,4577,4578],"yoast_head":"\n\n