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You might have the parents round to visit, or perhaps you have some friends coming to visit for dinner. You have searched through your favourite receipe books trying to find something a little bit out of the ordinary that you are confident enough to cook.

You buy the ingredients and spend the whole afternoon doing the cooking. All is going fine and you are feeling pretty happy as you finish the cooking. Then you decide to relax for an hour, but as you walk down your hall, you see out of the corner of your eye the bathroom and you realise with a sinking feeling that you have to do some cleaning.

You have been considering using eco-friendly ways to clean up the bathroom, and you have stocked up with the appropriate supplies. But your dinner guests are arriving soon and you wonder whether you will only revert to the normal chemical cleaners that fill your cupboard in the bathroom. But no, have made the decision to do the correct thing and here is a chance to see if it works. And if it doesn't, well, it should be a enjoyable topic of conversation.

What you need to take into account about chemical cleaning products that you buy from your store or supermarket, is that, although they do the job, they can significantly impact upon our environment. There are risks from placing such toxins into sewer systems. Much of the time this will be okay, but occasionally in some locations, if there's a storm, the sewer system can be inundated and the sewer system overflow can go into the stormwater system and this might, in its turn, be dispelled into our environment.

Chemical cleaning products additionally contain such potent chemicals that they are labelled to keep up and out of reach of children and instructions on what you have to do if you swallow, inhale, or even permit them to contact your skin. Cleaning the bathroom is, quite simply, a hazard to your health.

You put in so much effort to keep everything adequately hygienic and yet the substances you are using to clean up, can ironically turn out to be even worse for you than a bathroom that hasn't been cleaned. This will be particularly true if you are using chemical products to clean up blockages inside your pipes. These chemical products are so toxic, do take care you wear the correct gloves and perhaps mask if needed.

And even the antibacterial soap that is labelled as 99.9% potent at killing germs, can be detrimental to your health. There's a gathering movement to ban these soaps particularly from retirement villages and for use by children. This will be for the exact same reason that antibiotics are now being overwhelmed by super bugs because of the excessive subscription of antibiotics over the previous generation of doctors. The more you use the soap, the less your body is experienced at beating the targetted bacteria by itself, and the more chance there is of more super bugs developing. Washing your hands frequently with normal soap is quite adequate.

So, with a great degree of determination, you head into the bathroom. You look into the cupboard with the alternative cleaners. There is the fresh club soda that is a polisher and stain remover. Liquid castile soap is an all-purpose cleaner, grease-cutter and disinfectant. White vinegar is an antifungal that gets rid of germs. Baking soda gets rid of unpleasant smells and can be used as a gentle scouring powder. White vinegar is an antifungal that gets rid of germs. Borax gets rid of unpleasant smells, removes dirt and acts as an antifungal. Borax is the commonplace title for the natural mineral compound sodium borate. Hydrogen peroxide (3% concentration) is a stain remover, disinfectant and a non toxic bleach.

These are the basic ingredients you may use by themselves, or you can use them in combination to clean up the bathroom so that it is sparking clean. For example you can make an all purpose cleaner using a mixture of white vinegar, borax and liquid castile soap. I found this on the internet and the credit goes to Karen Logan. The reason I point this out, particularly, is because the internet has a wealth of information on eco-friendly solutions and is your first-stop resource for finding these kinds of helpful solutions.

Put 2 tablespoons of white vinegar and one tsp. of borax into a 16 oz. spray bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle with hot water and shake until the borax has totally dissolved. Then add one quarter of a cup of liquid castile soap. This should provide you with an excellent all purpose cleaner that you can use for cleaning all the things inside your bathroom. There's an even simpler solution using 2 cups of club soda mixed up in a spray bottle.

You can clean your glass using club soda and 1 tsp. of lemon juice in a spray bottle. You'll find this reduces those frustrating streaks of a number of chemical cleaners.

You can get rid of mould, often a problem in the bathroom, with a mixture of 1/2 of one cup of hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar with 1 cup of water. Spray on the mould and do not rinse off. You can additionally apply a combination of 2 tsp. of tea tree oil and two cups of water.

There's even a alternative solution for the toilet. Either sprinkle in baking soda or borax, or pour in white venegar. Then, instead of using a conventional floor cleaner from the local store or supermarket, you can mix up liquid castile soap, white vinegar and warm water in a large bucket. This will do just as great a job as any business cleaner and your bathroom and you and your loved ones' health should benefit from it.

Of course, you can use baking soda and vinegar to unblock your pipes, so really, you can pretty well solve and clean almost all the things inside your bathroom with natural ingredients where you normally use chemical products. And don't forget that you can disinfect your sponges and cloths by boiling them in water for three minutes and then microwave for another minute.

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Scott Rodgers is a recently retired Los Angeles master plumber and strives to provide healthy alternative options to clean up and solve your bathroom and plumbing issues. For more useful tips and information, visit Scott's website: http://eLocalPlumbers.com
Scott Rodgers has recently retired as a Los Angeles plumber and he loves to share his many years experience of baths and plumbing. For more useful tips and information, visit Scott's website: http://eLocalPlumbers.com