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You Have a Right to Know!
Last year, on behalf of health, consumer, and environmental groups, Earthjustice sued household cleaning giants for failing to submit required semi-annual ingredient reports.
In September, New York State announced it will finally begin requiring household cleaning companies to reveal the chemical ingredients in their products and any health risks they pose. The first-of-its-kind policy could have national implications, as momentum builds here and abroad for toxic chemical reform.
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Share Homemade Green Cleaning Recipes
Using everyday ingredients like vinegar and baking soda, safe, non-toxic cleaning recipes will have your home looking and smelling bright and clean. And more importantly, you'll save money and know exactly what's being wiped and mopped around your home. Browse some of our favorite recipes below, and then visit our Facebook page for more!
- 1 cup vinegar
- 1 cup water
- spray bottle
Host a Green Cleaning Party
Green cleaning parties are fun events where you and your friends learn how to make non-toxic cleaners from common items like vinegar and baking soda. Until household cleaner companies tell us what's in their products, the safest cleaners are those you mix yourself from ingredients you can trust!
Our partners at Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) will show you how to mix your own safe and effective surface cleaners, laundry detergent and more. Read about these Earthjustice members on why they're having parties, and visit WVE to start planning your green cleaning party today!
I want a clean house, but I certainly don't want to jeopardize my family's health and well-being to have it! One hundred years ago, my great grandmother didn't have big, brand-name label cleaning products, yet I am sure her house was clean." –Leigh Attaway Wilcox. Read about her party on Dallas Moms.I have 3 wonderful boys (ages 10, 6, and 4) for whom I would like to leave a beautiful earth to enjoy (just like I had). This is an excellent thing you are doing. Keep it up!"My goal is to make one green change for each day of 2010. I think that hosting a Green Clean party would be a great change to make!"I am tired of chemicals!"I'm trying to use only green products in my home but still I feel it's not enough and I'd rather use completely homemade natural products and try to get other people to do so. Very often they don't know about the dangers of chemical cleaning and need to be informed to be able to make a choice."I need to find inexpensive natural cleaners that are as effective as the dangerous ones. Thanks so much for doing this!"This is not only for ourselves, but for the health of the children we work with and the health of the planet we leave them."Recent Blog Posts
