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• Household Hazardous Waste

  Steps to safe management from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• 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.

• Save Your Shins and Other Needed Body Parts

  Develop safety habits that get your home clean without doing you in.

• Carpet Spills and Spots: How Do You Get Them Out?

  Be prepared for quick action to save your carpet from a spill...and a serious carpet cleaning bill.

• Spring Home Maintenance Saves Money

  Do smaller cleaning and repair jobs now to prevent big expenses down the road.

• Lye

  Be careful — as your nose has warned you already, this is a powerful and caustic substance.

• Alkalies

  Best for removing grease and oil.

• Degreaser

  A wide range of cleaning liquids, from mild to caustic.

• pH

  Following is a quick lesson in the chemistry of cleaning.

• Chlorine bleach

  This laundry aid is also an effective disinfectant, but be careful.

• OurHouse Heavy Duty Cleaner

  An all-purpose cleaner with clout, OurHouse Heavy Duty Cleaner is gentler both on the environment and on the user.

• Restore Toilet Bowl Cleaner

  Tom McNulty tests Restore's toilet bowl cleaner against two other brands and a friend's tough rust and hard water deposits.

• Clorox Disinfecting Wipes

  Clorox® Disinfecting Wipes are pre-moistened, disposable towelettes that clean and disinfect non-porous surfaces.

• OurHouse Carpet & Upholstery Spotter

  This environmentally friendly carpet and upholstery cleaner vacuums away, leaving neither residue nor stain!

• Restore Automatic Dish Detergent

  Tom McNulty puts this automatic dishwasher gel's "super-concentrated" claims to the test.

• Method® Pink Grapefruit All Purpose Cleaner

  Biodegradable product made with naturally-derived surfactants.

• Jeweler's Secret

  Foaming jewelry cleaner.

• Solay Simple Laundry Soap

  A salt-based and pH-neutral, laundry cleaner.

• Solay Simple Multi-Purpose Cleaner

  A natural salt-based, multi-purpose cleaner.

• Blue Juice™

  Fast and effective on glass, mirrors and polished metals.

• How to Clean Practically Anything

  Consumer Reports provides hundreds of timesaving solutions for all around the house.

• Green Clean

  Step-by-step guide to ecological housekeeping.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Carpet Cleaning Tips for Dummies®

  How-to guide offers easy carpet cleaning tips.

• Haley's Cleaning Hints

  Over 1,000 clever, inexpensive solutions help readers clean, deodorize, unclutter and organize their homes.

• How to Cheat at Cleaning

  Gives time-slashing techniques to save time on cleaning.

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