Green Cleaning For Dummies focuses on green solutions for cleaning every room of the house and beyond. The expert tips and advice informs readers how to clean their homes and workplaces in an ecologically friendly way without using harsh chemicals or other potentially hazardous substances.

Introduction 1 Part I: A Greener, Healthier Way to Clean 7 Chapter: 1: Cleaning House in a Brave Green World 9 Chapter 2: What’s Green Got to Do with It? 15 Chapter 3: Adding Up the Pluses of Cleaning Green 27 Part II: Getting to Work 41 Chapter 4: An Ounce of Prevention 43 Chapter 5: Assembling Your Hardware 57 Chapter 6: Mixing Things Up: A Green Cleaner Cookbook 75 Part III: Cleaning Green, Room by Room 101 Chapter 7: Everything in the Kitchen — Including the Sink 103 Chapter 8: Coming Clean in the Bathroom 125 Chapter 9: Airing the Dirty Laundry Room 145 Chapter 10: Creating a Clean and Healthful Sleeping Environment 165 Chapter 11: Greening and Cleaning the Living Room 183 Chapter 12: Transitioning from Home to the Great Outdoors 207 Part IV: The Part of Tens 235 Chapter 13: Ten (Or So) Ways Your Grandparents Got It Right 237 Chapter 14: Ten Steps — Beyond Clean — to Green Your Home and Your Life 245 Appendix: Green Resources 257 Index 263

Your ecofriendly guide to safer, healthier housekeeping Want to go green as you clean? This authoritative guide provides expert, proven advice on cleaning your home with organic, nontoxic, sustainable resources. From the kitchen and bath to the living room, laundry, and even your garage, you get green solutions for every common cleaning chore. Discover a new way to clean — learn how natural methods can save you money while improving your health and the environment Get ready to go green — prepare your house and assemble cleaning tools Protect your family — know the right cleaners to avoid (and which ones you can make yourself) Tackle your inside spaces — get green cleaning solutions for every room in the house and improve the efficiency of your appliances Go the extra mile — go beyond cleaning with ways to conserve energy and reduce waste Open the book and find: A room-by-room breakdown of green cleaning tips Recipes for making your own cleaning products Cost-free changes to clean green Tips for improving your sleeping environment Small changes to ease cleaning and save resources Ways to consume fewer resources An appendix of clean, green organizations and programs