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Pots And Pans
Pots, Pans and Cutting Boards
Tips for cleaning pots, pans and cutting boards in your kitchen.
Odor Control
The Top Five Worst Household Odors—and Green Solutions
Naturally, the best way to prevent odor is to eliminate its source (e.g., take out the garbage, smoke or keep pets outside, etc.), but what about existing odors already permeating your home?
Homemade Cleaners
Natural Cleaning Products
Raid the kitchen and laundry room for safer alternatives to cleaning chemicals.
Green Cleaning
Milder Alternatives
Recipes for homemade cleaners from Hannah Keeley.
Hazardous Waste
Household Hazardous Waste Products
Look around your home for these items that tend to become household hazardous waste. Plus, try a few recipes for homemade alternatives.

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Cleaning Tips
Keeping Shiny Things Shiny
How to restore that gleam to silver, copper, brass, stainless steel and more.
Organizing Strategies
One Drawer at a Time
Unlike chaos, order doesn’t spread without some effort. But with organization, a small effort can have a big impact, especially in your kitchen.
Steam Mop
Review: HAAN Slim & Light Steam Mop
How does this simple steam mop fare against messes? Find out!
Saving Money
Closet Cash
How an organized closet can pay you back.
Blog
Declutter and organize
How to spring clean by removing clutter from your home.

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Baking Soda
Baking soda
This mild abrasive is also a decent deodorizer.
Freezer
Defrosting is another cleaning task that helps to save energy.
Refrigerator interior
Clean up all spills right away. Here’s how to do that occasional, thorough cleaning.
Mattress
Turn and vacuum twice a year for better sleep — and better health.
Foam Rubber
Foam rubber
Periodic attention is needed to minimize foul odors.

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Baking Soda - Over 500 Uses
Baking soda tips from A-Z.
Haley's Cleaning Hints
Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help readers clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize their homes.
Clutter's Last Stand
Learn how to declutter from a master.
Laundry
Talking Dirty Laundry With The Queen of Clean
Strategies and tips for cleaner laundry from the Queen of Clean that includes a complete stain removal guide.
Garbage Land - On the Secret Trail of Trash
It turns out there is much more to the story of garbage than the truck that picks it up at your curb.

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Baking Soda
How To Clean With Baking Soda
When it comes to household versatility, baking soda is king. Here are just some of the many cleaning uses for sodium bicarbonate.
Bathtub
How To Clean a Bathtub
Whether you shower in it or use it for long, luxurious baths, there’s nothing clean—or relaxing—about a tub full of grime, mold, or mildew.
Bathtub
How To Clean a Ring From Your Bathtub
Save hand-washing houseguests the horror of having to stare at a line of dirt and dead skin ringing the bathtub.
Shower
How To Clean a Shower
If the grime in your shower looks like something that would be more at home in a horror flick than in, well, your home, it’s time to take control.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Prevention, Preparation, and Resources
In this video series, experts Allen Rathey, president of The Healthy House Institute (HHI), Professor Liz Goldsmith of Florida State University (FSU) and University of Massachusetts lab scientist Heidi Wilcox, explain how to remove tough spots and stains from carpet using green cleaning methods. Different carpet types, prevention, home-made and retail green products, and specific green cleaners and tools that work are covered in depth.