19 April 2019
repost: @countryhomemagazine
Photo: @thermaland.oaks
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Want to clean your home in a "green" and non-toxic way, but don't know where to start?
Sometimes when you look around your dirty messy house, it can be so hard to know where to start. Well, we've thought of everything, so you don't have to! And even if you've got a cleaning routine down, sometimes you just need a checklist so that you can feel good about checking off some boxes! So, throw on your favorite playlist and use this list for a safe, healthy, and clean home.
Don't forget to pick up our recommended all purpose cleaners, kitchen, bathroom, and floor cleaners, or use our favorite DIY recipes. We also have an in-depth kitchen cleaning guide and an in-depth bathroom cleaning guide if you want to dig deeper. Also, if you are lucky enough to have someone who cleans your home for you- be that your roommate, your SO, or a professional- pass along this checklist to make sure all your bases are covered. We even have a version in Spanish if it's helpful for you.
Am I the only one whose kitchen can quickly go from a calm, peaceful, nourishing, and dare I say, the most instagrammable part of my house, to a real life nightmare in about 20 minutes flat? And on the weekends, this transformation literally happens multiple times during the day. In order to help you through the roller coaster ride of kitchen cleanliness, we put together this simple guide so that you don't have to resort to using cleaners with toxic chemicals that can harm your health. After all, you're spending so much time cooking and eating in your kitchen that you want to make sure everything you're using is healthy.
Most of the time you are just wiping up crumbs and spills and don't need anything stronger than hot water and a dab of a non-toxic dish soap. That's where a sponge and rag come in handy. You can also use an all purpose cleaner, like one made of vinegar and water, but if you have granite or marble countertops, stick with the soap and water. When you need to disinfect after cooking with raw meat, just spray it with some hydrogen peroxide, let it sit for a couple of minutes and then wipe it up. Hydrogen peroxide is safe to use even on marble countertops.
If you're anything like me, you use the microwave constantly to heat up things like spaghetti sauce and then dread cleaning the dried bits of caked on splatter, or just never clean it. Once I found this trick, it became so much easier that I actually have a clean microwave from time to time!
For an extra deep clean, or after an especially messy baking project, cleaning your oven is a good idea to keep your kitchen smoke free. But a lot of oven cleaners are full of toxic chemicals, so here's a great DIY oven cleaner.
We have a shopping list of DIY cleaning supplies to get you started, but if DIY cleaning isn't really your thing, we have recommendations for all sorts of non-toxic cleaning products for your whole kitchen.
Non-Toxic Dishwasher Detergents