The days of green cleaning have many of us consider folklore solutions. While vinegar is a classic alternative, in my experience it had me working way too hard to get something clean, yes my elbow grease was my green determination. One had to suffer to be green and all. Hey - it just ain’t easy being green.
Vinegar left my home smelling a lot like a salad, I happen to like the smell of a salad, but not as a part of my decor. I always thought to myself – there has to be a better way. In experimenting with cleaning products on the market , I found myself still applying way too much determination to my cleaning efforts, seemingly these products just didn’t work very well either.
When I first discovered my organic cleaner, the signature product from a wonderful 52 year old wellness company. I felt I had finally found something that cleaned beautifully! As a matter of fact it simplified my cleaning tasks dramatically with its ease of use. I was just astounded by the mutiple ways this product could be used actually defining multi-use to a new level.
A discussion thread shared this very interesting information below. Thanks Sue! Sue’s biochemist husband verified the difference between vinegar and this amazing organic green cleaner:
Vinegar is a dilute solution of acetic acid, added to water it’s main effect is to lower the pH of water and make it more acid. As a cleaner, it is not particularly effective except as it dissolves soil, which by the way so does water, and /or makes the pH low enough to distress bacteria on surfaces.
The organic green cleaning product I adore is actually a surfactant, it performs like a detergent to break up soil of various kinds so that they can be washed away. In addition, because of it’s surfactant properties it will dislodge bacteria trapped in residue on surfaces so they can be washed away. Also it disrupts the cell wall of bacteria ( which contains lipids ) and makes them very sick or dead. While we are not clear how it might do on virus’s, it’s fair to say that as effectively as it removes residue from surfaces it stands to say that more virus’s would be washed away than with a less effective cleaner
Our green clean product does everything vinegar does plus WAY more. Without the smell. Without the elbow grease.
Regulations limit us to say that this product is a germicide, this is also true of vinegar, again it is utter folklore that make people believe that vinegar is an effective cleaner/germ killer. In fact, plain old soap will disrupt the germs of any surface. A reminder of the advertising ploy of anti – bacterial products on the market. Don’t go there.
Note also that all green cleaners are not created equal. As a matter of fact some green cleaners are actually down right harmful
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Hey Karen, what about my coffee pot?I drink coffee (lots of coffee). I run vinegar through my drip coffee maker but the next pot is gross. Any suggestions for that ill?
Reg, you crack me up. My first suggestion might be to have you consider some coffee alternatives. In the restraunt world we cleaned our glass coffee pots with salt and ice – it worked like a charm. For the drip machines we also used vinegar but we triple rinsed afterwards thus avoiding a gross next pot. I can’t say if my prganic cleaner would work in that situation – if you try it be very wary that it’s highly concentrated. I personally prefer the press or espresso stove top methods to a drip for coffee. No machine to clean!
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