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Dear Annie, I need to wash my deck and wonder what you suggest. All of the recommendations online are to use bleach. –Len, PA Dear Len, I am glad that you asked. I did a little bit of searching and came up with an eco-friendly alternative for you, including an instructional video.

How do your favorite mainstream cleaning brands stack up? Women’s Voices for the Earth, aka WVE, has put out the results of a study of five of the leading cleaning product companies regarding the use and labeling of toxic ingredients in products.

1948 was fraught with potential perils-- many of them right in your very own home!... At least, that's the way it seems in this vintage booklet, 1003 Household Hints and Work Savers. From making the most of your vegetables, to dressing on a budget, and cleaning your house, this book tells you how to avert the disaster that lurks around every corner....

Household Cleaning Tips To Make Those Chores A Lot More Easier To Accomplish Posted by Categories: Home Whether we like it or not, one of the things that we all have to do is cleaning. Some of us do it reluctantly, some just get on with it, some absolutely hate it but no matter how you feel about it, we all have to do it.

Older friends of mine still wax poetic over Ivory Snow Soap Flakes, about how well they cleaned everything from spots to upholstery fabric. There is something wonderfully simple and inexpensive in returning to plain ol’ soap and water for a number of chores, and you’d be amazed at how many tricky

Self-sufficient cowboys out on the range in summer often carry a line and clothespins so they can was a few “necessaries” without having to go back to the ranch or into town. What they have to clean the most carefully are their leather gloves.

Hello Annie, I am a recent convert to green cleaning. I have a 2-year-old daughter with health problems and I want to make my home as non-toxic as possible for her. The problem I have run into is that most of the recipes for cleaning provided on this site require washing soda, which is not available

For people who are just sick of soap, bored with Bon Ami - hate the sight of seismotite. What you need is a Chemical Mitt! It is apparently a mitt loaded with - well, chemicals. What sort of chemicals, this little ad does not say. But they are all in there.

Dear Annie, I thought you, if anybody, would know an old folk formula for making herbal ironing water. I am an old hold-out for ironing my sheets and would love to instill a fresh, totally natural, scent.

I live in the humid Hudson Valley in New York, and I’ll never forget one of my first summers here when a green-like mildew grew inside of closets and over and inside of shoes. Being sensitive to mold I was very alarmed that the thick humidity would make such colonies flourish in my bedroom.