After my post yesterday on reducing chemicals in my personal care routine, I figured I finish it off with a post today talking about what we use to clean at home, because traditional cleansers are certainly another source of endocrine disruptors. There are still a few things we need to switch over to a more natural product, for the most part we do pretty well.
Just recently I got my hand on a few product from Norwex. I’d heard a lot about them and decided it was time to give them a try and I gotta say, I’m a little obsessed with my enviro clothes and polishing cloth!
The purple window cloth you can use to clean windows and mirrors (and I’m sure a lot more). All you do is spritz a little water on the window or mirror and them clean it with the cloth. That’s it! And when I cleaned my windows (the ones the cats are always pressing their little noses against) I got so much dirt! And like any crazy person, when I had cleaned all my windows and mirrors I ran to my mother’s house in search of more things to clean. And this is the interesting thing. She has a mirror in her living room that my niece had got oily handprints on years ago. Mom had tried everything to get rid of them, she said that she would clean the mirror and the prints would seem to disappear but when the glass dried they would return. But guess what? I used a little water and the window cloth and the dang handprints left for good! Amazing.
As for the enviro cloth, I’ve used that thing (I haven’t used the pink one yet, that’s why it still looks so pretty) all over dusting, cleaning cabinets, walls, whatever and it does such a great job! I really thought that these were nothing more than standard micro fibre clothes but I was wrong. Last week I even took one to my wallet that was getting grungy and look how well it cleaned it up (I’d already cleaned the top left corner before taking the photo).
I’m a little obsessed. The other Norwex product I’m really liking is the SpiriSponge. We have one in the bathroom and one in the kitchen. I can’t tell you if it’s good for washing dishes because, well, I don’t do dishes 😉 but it’s a dream for cleaning the bathtub!
Norwex products are available from independent sales reps and I believe right on their website. If you are local and want to order something, shoot me an email or Facebook message and I’ll hook you up with a local distributor!
I talked about The Honest Company in yesterday’s post and they are making a return today. I really love their products and have switched most of our household cleaning products over to theirs. You can of course make most (or all) of your household cleaning products yourself for next to nothing. I frequently make my own, but sometimes I get lazy and it’s nice to have a pre-made cleaner on hand.
I find they work just as well as the mainstream cleaners, but without the, “don’t breath in or you’ll die from chemical overload” smell 😉 We even use their laundry detergent packs
What do they smell like? Nothing, but your laundry comes out smelling clean. It doesn’t smell super fragrant, nor does it smell like week old laundered sweat (which is certainly a possibility with my laundry!), it just smells clean. I like it!
With our next bundle we are getting a few new (to us) products so hopefully in the next month or two we’ll have evven fewer excess chemicals floating around here! You can sign up for a free trial of their products and just pay the shipping if you want to see what they are like. And then if you decide to get a bundle you can choose which products they send you each time, and you can choose what intervals you have them sent. The default choices on the website are every 4 or 6 weeks, but you can email them to get a longer (or shorter) time frame set up. I only get a bundle once every 2 or 3 months because that’s really all we need.
In full disclosure, The Honest Company does have an affiliate program, so if you should sign up for a bundle using one of these links I will get credit on my account towards a future purchase. However, I wouldn’t be telling you about them if I didn’t really love them, and since I love you guys too it’s only fair that a little love gets sent back to me if I hook you and them up 😉 Just kidding, I still heart you even if you don’t buy a thing from them or anyone else!
Sagan says
These cloths are so cute! I love cleaning using natural products – will have to look into these ones. It’s funny how often they work BETTER than the commercial, chemical-laden cleaners!
Suzi Fevens says
It’s very fancy microfibre 😉 it has micro silver in it that helps purify against mould, and bacteria and somehow cleans better. It’s pretty rad!