Last week I had the chance to clean for a friend who has a toddler and one on the way. Because she is concerned about the Earth her children will inherit, and because she totally rocks, she requested that I do a “green clean” of her place.  Great!  However, I had never done a green clean before and wanted to be sure to do it right.

I very easily could have gone to the mega-store down the road and purchased a whole line-up of  products newly designed and marketed by the major manufacturers of everyday cleaning stuff, but that didn’t feel right somehow. I want to do green cleaning, but not boost the bottom line of the companies who are simply cashing in on this ‘latest trend’.  So I did a little reasearch.

I hopped on the Internet and found tons of resources for making my own products!

Many of the recipes that I ended up using came from the blogs of  Annie B. Bond on the Care2.com site.  One of my favorite recipes was for “Creamy Soft Scrubber”:

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