Uses for Baking Soda: Green Cleaner, Odor Neutralizer, Health, Beauty Care

Baking soda (or bicarbonate of soda) is the definitive multi-tasker. It is the quintessential cleaner and scrubber. Baking soda deodorizers and neutralizes all sorts of odors. It's use in the kitchen, bathroom, nursery is limitless. Baking soda can be used in a multitude of ways medicinally and for first aid. Baking soda should be on every glamor girl's vanity table. And here is some great news; baking soda costs about $.39 a box. Here are over 25 ways to use baking soda in many different applications. 20 Uses for Baking Soda: Cleaner, Odor Neutralizer, Health Aid and Beauty Care 

How to Remove Lipstick Stains

Train sings, "Your lipstick stain, on the front lobe of my left side brains. I knew I wouldn't forget you." Lipstick stains are great for funky song lyrics, but on clothing (ahem, collars), not so much. Lipstick is an oil-based product with heavy dyes that can really ruin clothing. How do you get those pesky stains out? The key words are "proactive" and "pre-treat". Read more...

Green Clean Stain Removal Guide: Blood, Wine, Tomato Sauce, Chocolate, Grass

Green Eco-Friendly Stain Prevention and Removal: Blood, Wine, Tomato Sauce, Chocolate
The best way to treat stains is to prevent stains from taking hold in fabric. Green, eco-friendly stain prevention and removal involves using less earth-invasive techniques. Here are green tips for blood, chocolate, tomato sauce, wine and grass stains.
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Free Printable BP Gulf Oil Spill Lesson Plans

BP Gulf Oil Spill: Ecology, Life Science and Environment Lesson Plans to Teach Students About Oil Spills
The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been pouring 5,000-70,000 barrels into the gulf daily for almost a month. Life science, ecologyy, biology, environmental science, earth science and wildlife biology are excellent classes to explore the gulf oil spill.
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How to Clean the Kitchen Sink and Prevent Clogging

How to Prevent Your Sink from Clogging
No matter how many cool appliances fill your kitchen- dishwasher, garbage disposal, trash compactor, one problem remains for cooks: how to keep the sink from clogging. Here's a safe, green DIY guide to keep kitchen drains clean.
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Summer Cat Care Tips

Healthy Summer Cat Care Tips to Keep Kitty Cool
Cats and other furry mammals are rumored not to feel the heat in summer. It has been said that a cat's fur insulates him from the heat. This is just an old wives tale. Cats not only feel the heat, they suffer the same health issues in summer as humans.
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Green Home Safety: Clean Your Vents, Ducts, Filters

Home Safety Tips: Clean Your Filters, Ducts and Vents
My husband and I are avid home maintenance DIY-ers. We also practice preventative maintenance as a rule of thumb. One of our best home care safety and maintenance tips is a simple but oft over-looked practice. Vent, screen and filter cleaning.
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Green Living and Doing the Dishes

How to Do the Dishes the Green, Healthy Way
I know what you're thinking. Dish washing. She's writing about how to do the dishes. Why? Because there a safer, greener, healthier ways to do dishes. And washing dishes in a dishwasher is necessarily the most environmentally friendly method.
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Green Household Maintenance: 3M Scotchgard Product Review

Spring Cleaning Tips: 3M Scotchgard Fabric Protector Now Environmentally Friendly
3M Scotchgard is a fabric spray protector. Scotchgard was a household name when I was a kid. To 'Scotchgard' became a verb meaning to spray with Scotchgard to protect the fabric. Scotchgard is now made with environmenally friendly formula.
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The Complete Home-owners Guide to Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, Repair, Re-Sell and Remove

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Re-Sell, Remove
Eco-friendly ways to clean your home, purge your things and help the environments. Green tips for complete household purge and clean-up
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Green Showers

20 Ways to Take a Green Shower
Mother Earth is sending out SOSs constantly. She's sick, tired, hungry and thirsty. She's calling us to live green. By our choices we heed her call and renew our earth, or ignore to our peril. Think green in every breath you take. Every move you make.
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How to Take a Green Shower

20 Ways to Take a Green Shower
Mother Earth is sending out SOSs constantly. She's sick, tired, hungry and thirsty. She's calling us to live green. By our choices we heed her call and renew our earth, or ignore to our peril. Think green in every breath you take. Every move you make.
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Health Hazard: Keyboard, Desk and Computer

The Most Unsanitary Spot in the Home or Workplace
Computer, keyboard and mouse win the least sanitary award. Desks are germ heaven. Step-by-step clean up and maintenance guide. Cleaner means healthier and greener too!
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Ultimate Green Clean- Magic Erasers

Mr. Clean Magic Erasers
Mr. Clean Magic Erasers-the ultimate green clean! Detailed explanation and list of uses for this product.
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Green=Recycle,reduce,reuse,repair,resell

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Re-Sell, Remove
Green living starts with simple living. Do you bit for the earth with these tips for a complete household purging. Organize your stuff. Declutter your life.
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Spring Cleaning with Lemon Juice

Spring Cleaning with Lemon Juice: Green, Safe and Effective
Spring Cleaning with lemon juice: the safe, non-toxic and natural way to clean, shine, lighten, sanitize and deodorize in the kitchen, bath, nursery, garage, basement, etc. Many cosmetic uses as well. Pair lemon juice with baking soda for a dynamo scrubbing wipe. 20+ eco-friendly uses.
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Vehicle Maintenance for a Green Car!

20 Vehicle Maintenance Tips
20 things to check, refill, change or replace on your vehicle regularly. Your car runs cleaner, greener and meaner when you practice these simple vehicle maintenance tips!
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Green Clean with Safe Natural Products

Clean Green: Replace Toxic Household Cleaners with Eco-Friendly Products for Safe, Natural Cleaning
Stock your cleaning cupboard with these simple, natural household cleaners. Keep the family healthy and safe by avoiding harmful chemical cleaners, disinfectants and polishes.
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