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Simple Green: Wall-Mounted Drying Racks
Hot Post From One Year Ago
Wall-mounted drying racks are a classic small space solution, and air drying is regaining popularity thanks to the significant energy savings you gain from avoiding the electric dryer......
Hot Tip: Rinse Aid Alternative
While we've discussed what dishwashing detergent is best, what about their counterpart - rinse aides? Instead of buying a commercial rinse aid, there's something you probably already have in your cu...
Clothespin Trashcan by DCI
Create a waste basket instantly out of any bag on hand. Similar to Ben the Bin, the Clothespin Trashcan counts on you to reuse bags instead of buying new garbage bags......
Outdoor Inspiration: Clothes on the Line
Nothing beats drying the laundry on the line. The fresh clean scent, warmth, thrift, and eco-friendliness add up to make clothesline drying a win-win practice. Plus, we just like the way it looks......
Goodbye Detergent Scrubs
Yesterday, we posted on the best green dishwasher detergent. Today, we're taking things even farther and introducing you to some scrubbers that could eliminate your need for dish soap altogether. Thes...
The Best Green Dishwasher Detergent
Grist.org
So, apparently the greenest way to wash dishes is with an efficient dishwasher? Unfortunately, we still do ours by hand (not by choice). So all of you who are lucky enough to live in a home with a dis...
Hot Tip: Use Aluminum Foil to Remove Rust
Getting ready for summer entertaining means polishing up your patio furniture — some of which may have gotten rusty over the winter. Here's an easy, non-toxic way to get rid of the rust on ch...
Detox Your Home with 8 Ingredients
Natural Home magazine July 2009
We never tire of collecting homemade green cleanser recipes and green cleaning tips. So, when we saw Natural Home magazine promising we could detox our whole home with 8 household ingredients, we figu...
Roundup: Best Green Cleaning Tools
As much as we talk about green cleaning products here, we also recognize that it's important to have the right tools. Sometimes, when you're not using caustic cleaners, the grime doesn't just melt awa...
Best Green Cleaning Products 2009: Editor's and Reader's Home Lineups
It can seem hard to be green when you live in an apartment in a big city. Particularly if you live modestly and don't drive a car everyday, you can come to feel that your environmental footprint is...
What's Inside Palmolive Ultra
...and why you might want to wear gloves.
To most non-scientists, the ingredients listed on the back of non-natural cleaning products or personal products are completely foreign. Wired Magazine's series "What's Inside" deconstructs the ingred...
Spring Cleaning Tip #10: Make A Cleaning Schedule
It's almost the end of May, and the end of Cleaning Month. So, until next year when we clean again...! No, no, just kidding. We hope you clean your house at least once before May 2010 (preferably...
HERO-365 DR-1 Drying Rack
We're always in favor of letting Mother Nature dry our clothes, as opposed to a drying machine. But it's not always easy. Sometimes it's hard to know where to hang the clothesline. Or you end up with ...
Spring Cleaning Tip #9: Invest and Nest in Your Home
We've heard Maxwell say that nothing you do for your home is ever wasted, and we think that's particularly true in the current economic climate. We're all spending more time at home (less money, le...
Spring Cleaning Tip #8: Don't Forget To Clean These Places!
We know the basics: floor, windows, countertops. But there are a number of spots in your home that you might not think about when you're cleaning. Click below for our list of easily-forgotten plac...
Survey: How Are You Greening Memorial Day Weekend?
Memorial Day is a great holiday to honor the men and women who have served and protected our country. The weekend is also one of our favorite 3-Day weekends - the weather is warming up, and typicall...
How Often Do You Wash Your Water Bottle?
We took a swig from our Sigg the other other morning, and noticed the water didn't taste so fresh. It had been a couple of days since we last washed it. How often do you clean yours?...
Test Lab: Haan Steam Floor Sanitizer
Product: FS-20 Steam Cleaning Floor Sanitizer Designer: Romi Haan Price: $100 Rating: Recommend** The Haan Steam Cleaning Floor Sanitizer promises to clean and disinfect hard surface floors with a ...
Test Lab: Non-toxic & Natural Toilet Bowl Cleaners
Grist 05.19.2009
Of all the 'standard' cleaning agents, toilet bowl cleaners are the the ones to bother us the most - for some reason the smell is the most irritating, and the unnatural color, well just unnecessary....
Good Question: Green Clean the Mold in My Shower?
Hot Question from One Year Ago...
Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: green@apartmenttherapy.com This question comes from a friend, who ...
Test Lab: Earth Friendly Product's Dishmate - Almond
Not gonna lie, the almond smell of Earth Friendly Product's new hand dishwashing liquid really threw us off at first. We tend to go for the more citrusy varieties. But, because they sent us a sample, ...
Best Window Cleaner is a Non-Toxic DIY
New York Times 05.13.2009
Turns out a trick we learned working in retail (lots of windows!) is the best way to clean glass. The New York Times recently tested 20 different window cleaning methods and our retail trick came ou...
Spring Cleaning Tip #7: Fix What's Broken
Spring cleaning is a great time to finally do all those household repairs that have accumulated over the last few months. So take a walk through your house and make a list of all the repairs that y...
Green Cleaning: Tawashi Dish Scrubbers
click thumbnails for larger pics Spring cleaning is not only a good time to give your home a good top-to-bottom clean, but to evaluate how you clean and what you clean with. While we'll probably kee...
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