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Remediation
Protect Yourself When Removing Mold
What to wear when removing mold from your home.
Safety
Poison Prevention Pointers for Spring
It is important to keep safety in mind as you begin your spring cleaning and gardening.
Donations
Warm Hands, Warm Hearts – Helping Those Affected by Superstorm Sandy
ACI and AAFCS have launched "Warm Hands, Warm Hearts," an effort to gather gloves, mittens and hand soap for those affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Leather
Loving Leather
The kinds and care of leather upholstery.
Safety
Safe? Or Toxic? Get the Facts on Your Cleaning Chemicals
Get the info on health risks associated with your cleaning products — in 10 minutes or less!

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Disinfecting
Q & A: To Disinfect or Not Disinfect?
Q: I purchased an all-purpose cleaner at a janitorial supply store that doesn't require rinsing, but I noticed that it makes no claims about killing germs. Do I need to use a germ-killing cleaner for regular cleaning of the kitchen and bathroom in my home? Or do I only need that occasionally? - Carolyn E.
Spring Cleaning
What do you intend to clean this spring?
What modern homes need in a good spring cleaning.
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.
Spring Cleaning
Survey: Love or hate cleaning?
How much do we really like or dislike cleaning?
Pest Control
Creepy-Crawlies
As temperatures get cooler, insects and other pests start looking for someplace warm and dry.

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Protective gloves
We use this term often in describing how to perform various cleaning tasks safely. Here’s what it means.
Rubber Gloves
Rubber gloves
Some jobs require greater hand protection than others.
Personal protective equipment
It sounds like a big term, but it’s not. Personal safety is easy and inexpensive to ensure.
Bathtub
Bathtub ring
An easy way to keep a yucky problem at bay.
Latex gloves
These indispensable tools help guard against infection and chemical exposure.

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The Secret Life of Germs
A book that looks into the microscopic world of diseases and how to prevent them.
Dust
The Secret Life of Dust
Details the often overlooked subject of dust and its impact on humans and the planet.
Infection Control For Dummies
Ambitious range of information for professionals, but also average people, on professional infection control.
Green Living
Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips
Whether you're a renter, a landlord, or a homeowner, Jeff May's Healthy Home Tips will help you keep your home a clean and healthy place to live.
How to Cheat at Cleaning
Gives time-slashing techniques to save time on cleaning.

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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.
How To Clean a Toilet
The gross-out factor of cleaning a toilet cannot be underestimated—but the gross-out factor of not cleaning a toilet is even worse. Better clean the toilet.
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.
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 - Home-Made 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.