So, obviously life got in the way of my little project I started before the holidays. I got a bit busy with holiday preparation, went out of town for Christmas, and then had a family with a nasty stomach bug that’s going around. But, I’m back and read to take on my project!
Today I’m cleaning the living room and getting all the germs out of the room we’re in the most. So, furniture polish is my cleaner of choice today. I found a ready-made version at my local organic food store, Natural Grocers, but you can buy it here. This is what I found:
This cleaner by Earth Friendly Products contains only 4 ingredients…and only one ingredient I had to look up, which I think is pretty darn good, considering I’ve just started this project and haven’t dug deep into what we need to keep out of our cleaning supplies quite yet. Here’s the ingredient list:
Pretty simple ingredients, huh? The one that got me was Emulsifier. Turns out that’s just a wetting agent that can come from a variety of sources, many of them plants. So, I feel pretty good about what’s IN this cleaner. How did it stack up on the job?
Turns out it works great! We had a coffee spill in the living room a few weeks back when my husband left his coffee on the entertainment center and we left the house. The dog had a little coffee break when we were gone and left us one heck of a mess when we returned. Coffee was all over the entertainment center, cable box, and stereo from the splash of the cup hitting the floor. That day I cleaned with my normal furniture polish and thought it had done a good job. Well, today when I was scrutinizing the job the Earth Friendly stuff was doing I noticed spots the old polish had left behind. With a little extra squirt over the spots, they were gone in a single wipe! My furniture is shiny enough to see reflections and I’m a happy camper! I also feel like it went further than the old junk. Once I had a few squirts down on the entertainment center I didn’t need to spray any additional cleaner unless there was a stubborn spot, what was on the rag was good enough to do the job. The stuff smelled good too, orange and fresh, nothing chemical or nasty about it.
So, mark that one off the list of things you have to make yourself, this 100% natural cleaner is a winner in my book!
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