Cleaning the "Green" Way

In an effort to bring my house to a more “Green” level (aka: Natural) I am introducing products one effort at a time. I have decided to introduce the new Chorox Green Works Cleaners and have done 2 weeks of usage and ‘Love’ the products.

Here are “MY” Pro’s(+) and Con’s(-):

+ Clean's through cooking grease on counter/stove tops

+ Pleasant Odor

+ Great for those pet emergency’s on the floors

+ GREAT, AWESOME, and BETTER than Windex for mirrors and windows

+ Once you let it soak for a few minutes, it fights through “caked-on-mud” on cement floors (we are finishing our basement and have lots of mud tracks through our cement floor)

- Produces a soapy residue when too much cleaner is used

-/+ It’s not 100% natural, but 99% is better than 0%!!!

More than 99% of the ingredients in Clorox's new Green Works products come from natural, non-petrochemical sources. Here are the ingredients in Green Works' all-purpose cleaning spray, and how they compare with conventional cleaning products:

-- Water. This is a primary ingredient in any cleaner.

-- Alkyl Polyglucoside. This is a surfactant, or a chemical that reduces the surface tension of the cleaning solution so it can get under dirt and lift it up. Many conventional cleaning products use surfactants made from petrochemicals, but alkyl polyglucoside comes from coconut oil.

-- Ethanol SDA-3C. This is a solvent to help dissolve dirt and keep the solution stable. Conventional cleaning products often use petroleum-based solvents such as glycol ethers. The ethanol in Green Works comes from corn oil.

-- Glycerine. This is another solvent, also made from corn oil.

-- Lemon oil. This provides fragrance and comes from lemon peel.

-- Preservative (Kathon). This is derived from petrochemicals and is part of the 1 percent of Green Works' spray that is not made from natural, renewable ingredients. However, unlike some other preservatives, it will biodegrade within 28 days.

-- Milliken Liquitint Blue HP dye and Bright Yellow dye X. These are also made from petrochemicals and are part of the 1 percent of the product that is not natural. These dyes give the spray its light green color.