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Green Cleaning
Milder Alternatives
Recipes for homemade cleaners from Hannah Keeley.
Time Saving
Simple Tips for Big Time Savings
Shave minutes off your weekly cleaning routine for big time savings.
Spring Cleaning
Economic Conditions Stimulate Change in Spring Cleaning Behaviors
SDA survey shows effectiveness, cost and convenience are top factors in consumers’ cleaning product choices; economy has influenced household cleaning habits of nearly 8 In 10 Americans; 68% still regularly engage in Spring Cleaning; consumers increasingly seeking sustainability benefits in products.
Laundry Detergent
Label Savvy
There's more on the label than you might think.
Vacuuming
Vacuuming Tips: High and Low Cleaning
Tackle more than the floor with this multi-talented tool.

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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.
Motivation
Dreamers and Doers
Putting motivation and direction in your corner, whatever your personality type.
Vacuuming
How often should you vacuum?
Vacuuming more often can not only improve your health but also make your carpet last longer.
Organizing Strategies
Back to school organization
When the school paperwork floods in, it can be a recipe for chaos and clutter if you don't have a simple organizing system.
Carpet Cleaning
How often should you have your carpets professionally cleaned?
Can you get the same results by doing it yourself?

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Household Prod. Database
Interested in green cleaning? Chemical safety? The Household Products Database (HPD) can be a good place to look for information.
Water heater
These two simple tasks will help prevent costly plumbing services.
Green Cleaning
Biodegradable
A substance is biodegradable when natural biological decay processes can break it down into simple molecules.
Sprayer
Spray bottle
Keeping a clean house would be a lot harder without these handy tools.
Vacuum filtration
Keeping the dust inside your vacuum.

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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.
Real Simple: Cleaning
Room-by-room strategies for cleaning every room in your home.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cleaning
Simple ways to clean better and healthier.
Real Simple Organizing
Organizational help from Real Simple Magazine.
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.

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DIY
Green Cleaning All-Purpose Spray
HC Producer series winner Leslie Reichert demonstrates how to make your own DIY green cleaning all purpose spray.
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.
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.
Carpet Cleaning
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.