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Braving the Bleach
Tips you need to know before using bleach or bleach-containing products.
Laundry
Whitening Your Whites
How an egg timer gets your whites cleaner, plus more important tips about chlorine bleach.
Oxygen Bleach
Oxi-type Bleach Stains
Stain removal products containing oxygen bleaches must be used correctly or bleach spots may result.
Laundry
Washday Helpers
What improves your laundering, from enzyme prewashes to fabric softeners.
Laundry Detergent
Label Savvy
There's more on the label than you might think.

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Green Living
Green your darks, lights, and whites
Summer might be one of the easiest times to "go green" in your laundry room.
Laundry
Laundry: Somebody Has to Do It
How to do laundry the right way and reap the benefits.
Organizing Strategies
September Signals a Change in Seasons
As the season changes, we consider getting warm clothes out of the closet. But September is also a great opportunity to organize the closet.
Saving Money
Closet Cash
How an organized closet can pay you back.
Humidifier
Crane Cool Mist Humidifiers
These humidifiers are attractive, easy-to-use, safe, and provide needed moisture to dry indoor air and to treat cold and flu symptoms naturally.

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Bleach
Chlorine bleach
This laundry aid is also an effective disinfectant, but be careful.
Hydrogen peroxide
The pharmacy antiseptic makes a good, inexpensive spotting agent because of its mild bleaching action. It's also an effective germ-killing agent.
Bleach
Bleach
It's not just from a chlorine bottle anymore.
Fungicide
Fungicide
Mildew and mold are fungi. Bleach, borax, and other common chemicals effectively fight outbreaks.
Phosphates
Once widely used to soften water for use in washing machines, some makers have reduced use of these chemicals.

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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.
House Cleaning Tips
How to Clean Practically Anything
Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.
Green Cleaning
Green Cleaning for Dummies
Provides sustainable and healthy solutions for every room in the house - from the kitchen and bathroom to the laundry room and garage.
Green Cleaning
Cheaper, Greener, Cleaner: Ceiling to Floor Savings
Easy-to-follow recipes for inexpensive, homemade cleaners that are better for the environment and for your health.
Squeaky Green
The Method guide to detoxing your home room-by-room.

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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.
Laundry
Clean Like a Man - The Laundry
Tom McNulty provides quick tips on how to do the laundry "Like a Man".
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Using Green Cleaners
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.
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.
Carpet Cleaning
Special Tools for Green Carpet Cleaning
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.