How to Make Homemade Furniture Polish If you’re on a mission to replace toxic household cleaners with natural and safer options, one cleaner you don’t want to forget about is your furniture polish. Store-bought furniture polish can contain any number of harmful chemicals. Even worse, if it’s in an aerosol can, you have to worry…
What Is Reusable Food Wrap? Whether you’re starting your journey to a more eco-friendly lifestyle or simply looking for an easy way to reduce waste and save money, you might be thinking about getting reusable food wrap to safely store your food without using plastic. However, you might be also be wondering, “What is reusable…
How to Have an Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving For many people, Thanksgiving is all about excess. Yet this can have a negative impact on the environment. Fortunately, if you follow these easy tips, you can have an eco-friendly Thanksgiving and still enjoy all of your favorite traditions. Even better, many of these tips will actually help you…
How to Make Homemade All-Purpose Cleaner Without Using Vinegar Having an all-purpose cleaner that you can use in the kitchen, bathroom, and just about everywhere else in the house is an essential part of every natural cleaning kit. That’s why I’ve created this homemade all-purpose cleaner without using vinegar. Related: How to Create an Eco-Friendly…
How to Make Homemade Granite Cleaner There’s a reason granite is such a popular choice for countertops. It offers timeless beauty, and it’s very durable. However, it’s not completely impervious to damage. In fact, you might be causing damage to your granite countertops if you’re using a vinegar-based homemade cleaner. That’s because vinegar can pit…
Making DIY Tub and Shower Cleaner I always assumed I needed some type of chemical-laden tub and shower cleaner to keep my bathroom clean. Then I started to realize what type of damage I was doing to my body using those chemicals. That’s when I made the switch to a DIY tub and shower cleaner….
Top 15 Eco-Friendly Gifts Under $25 Say you have someone on your gift list who’s going green. You’d love to get them some eco-friendly gifts they’ll actually use and appreciate, but you also can’t afford to break the bank. Or perhaps you’re the one trying to live more eco-consciously, and you want to give everyone…
8 Things You Should Never Clean With Vinegar Since distilled white vinegar is so acidic, it’s a great tool for cleaning your home without harmful chemicals. It can dissolve soap scum, break up sticky buildup, and even kill some germs. In fact, there are plenty of surprising things you can clean with vinegar. Related: How…
How to Have an Eco-Friendly Halloween The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler, and before you know it, Halloween will be here. While I love Halloween just as much as the next person, it’s not hard to look around and see how scary it is for the environment. From single-use plastic candy…
How to Make Homemade Natural Face Paint Fun events like birthday parties and Halloween aren’t supposed to put our children at risk for lead exposure. Yet that’s exactly what happens when we use some brands of commercially available face paint. Related: The Best Eco-Friendly Gifts for Kids The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics created a study…
