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Label Savvy
There's more on the label than you might think.
Green Cleaning
How to Choose a Green Cleaning Product
Cleaning your home is essential for maintaining a sanitary and pleasant environment. So the last thing you want to do is to introduce harmful chemicals in a place you are trying to make safer.
Cosmetics
Understanding the Role of Preservatives in Household Products
This article describes the role preservatives play in a product's life cycle, where preservatives are found, and how manufacturers choose preservatives and set preservative levels.
Wipes
SDA Survey: Wipes Increasingly Work Their Way Around the House
Wipe Usage is on the Rise Countrywide – 71% Say They Use Wipes.
Cleaning Science
Self-Cleaning Windows
Building materials have come a long way in housework prevention.

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Automatic Soap Dispenser
simplehuman Automatic Liquid Soap/Lotion Dispenser
While some technology can be a real letdown - this automatic liquid soap/lotion dispenser did not disappoint. Find out why.
Green Cleaning
Only 44 percent of American Consumers Trust Companies' Green Claims
Spring Cleaning
Still not finished with spring cleaning?
How to break the big task of spring cleaning into small manageable steps.
Security
Why False Alarms Should Not Be Alarming
Why the ability to make noise can be a good thing.
Spring Cleaning
Why you don't have to spring clean
Spring cleaning doesn't necessarily have to be done in the spring.

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Green Cleaning
Biodegradable
A substance is biodegradable when natural biological decay processes can break it down into simple molecules.
VOCs
Organic chemical, compound
Any substance that has carbon molecules in its structure.
Green Cleaning
Green cleaning
Safer product purchases and methods that may help spare the environment.
Enzymes
Enzymes
Naturally-occurring proteins used in cleaning products to digest waste and remove stains.
Trash bags
What to look for on product labels. Plus, tips on recycling bags for trash disposal.

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Organize Your Office In No Time
An organized office and more productive day is just a book away.
Organize Your Garage In No Time
Provides step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow to-do lists to help you get your garage organized and keep it that way.
Sink Reflections
Manage clutter and chaos and get your home - and your life - in order.
The Organized Home
Not merely a practical book about labeling boxes and finding more storage space — but a book about great design.
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.

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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.
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.
Carpet Cleaning
Green Carpet Cleaning - Spot Removal
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.