🪥🧴 Using environmentally-friendly products for the household

While we want to make our homes healthier by cleaning, the opposite is often true. Cleaning products can emit numerous pollutants into the air.

There's no point in using too many products. Here are some useful natural products for cleaning your home:

• Baking soda absorbs odours, cleans surfaces and unblocks drains, for example.
• Black soap cleans and removes grease: a tablespoon of black soap in a bucket of water cleans floors perfectly.
• White vinegar can be used to clean saucepans, coffee makers, silverware, microwaves, bathrooms and so on. However, this product is acidic, so don't pour large quantities down your toilets or sinks. Never mix it with bleach.
• Lemon cleans, disinfects and deodorises: if you put half a lemon in your fridge door, it will absorb bad smells. Otherwise, opt for mechanical solutions to unblock drains, such as plungers, ferrets and hot water, before using household products.
• Steam dissolves grease and cleans thoroughly. It's fragrance-free, so it doesn't affect air quality. But ventilate systematically to avoid increasing the humidity in your home.
• As far as possible, use cleaning solutions that do not emit toxic substances: steam cleaning, microfibre cloths, damp cloths, etc.

For even more advice, see our article.