Eco-friendly cleaning products :)

[oktelephone3]

Hiya, I am in the process of making the switch to more non-toxic/eco friendly products, each time I run out of a cleaning product I replace it with a more environmentally friendly one, the vast majority of which I find are just as good!

I've switched out scented carpet refresher for baking soda with essential oils. Instead of regular sprays I use ecovers cream cleaner and tesco's eco-active spray. I use cotton/microfibre cloths that I wash and reuse instead of disposable wipes. I use an eco egg and ecover fabric softner for the clothes. I use white vinegar for glass. Vinegar and baking soda for cleaning the oven. Eco- leaf dishwasher tabs and Lily's Eco clean floor cleaner! Very impressed with all these products and will be continuing use, so I do think they're worth a shot! :)

The only one I am not a fan of (thus far) is the ecover toilet cleaner.
It smells great but just isn't doing the best job longterm (It does clean the toilet when I use it but I end up needing to use it way more than I had done with regular toilet cleaner as stains seem to build up much quicker) so I am wondering if anyone can recommend a more effective environmentally friendly one?

And is there any other Eco-friendly cleaning products that you swear by and would like to recommend?

I use the Waitrose eco toilet cleaner

Oooh interesting! Is it good? I don't have a waitrose around but I am urious as to whether there are good eco friendly toilet cleaners

I'm struggling to find a substitute toilet cleaner too. We have quite hard water and they just don't seem to cut it. I switched to wooden loo brushes too which h has worked in one toilet but downstairs against a cold floor it doesn't dry out and it just stays wet. I cant imagine that's very bacterial resistant.

yeah I'm going to use up this bottle (I've tried it3 times, so gave it a fair chance) and try out a couple of other brands of Eco toilet cleaners, if they don' work I'll have to go back to regular toilet cleaner. I don't think it's too bad if that's the only 'bad' thing I use and everything is environmentally friendly but hopefully I'll find one that worls for me and it wont come to that!!

Oh yeah that doesn't sound good! Although I hear that wood is a natural anti septic so who knows! lol maybe a steel one might suit better? :)

You can make toilet bombs... bicarb, citric Acid and something or other!

I have been using Humble Stuff humblestuff.co.uk

The toilet freshener is absolutely gorgeous but not cheap. Found it after @Fuffycloudland77 pointed out on another thread that some eco products like Method & Ecover had been bought up by big multinationals that used animal testing.

Toilet cleaner: bicarbonate of soda and white vinegar. Mix into a paste and use it as a scrub. Strangely satisfying to scrub the loo clean (with rubber gloves).

Dirtbusters make a lime scale removing toilet cleaner that is biodegradeable. They do many environmentally friendly cleaning products.

dirtbusters.co.uk/online-shop

I really like Splosh. They are refillable bottles too for cutting down on plastic. All done online /via app and sent by post. Not the cheapest up front, but a little goes a long way.

You're off to a good start, OP, but I want to point out that combining bicarb and vinegar doesn't do anything but fizz dramatically. It isn't a cleaner. You're combining an acid with an alkali and they neutralise one another to form basic salts. You'd be better off using washing soda for the oven as it's great stuff for greasy deposits.

Have you heard of Dri-Pak, who make basic ingredients, like the bicarb and washing soda? All cruelty-free and environmentally friendly

https://www.dri-pak.co.uk

He bicarb etc?

Ignore the last bit, editing error

I'm using Splosh at the moment, I like the system but can't say I'm very impressed with the products and not sure how long I will stick with them.

I do use soda crystals, bicarb, citric acid for many things.

Splosh.com

Splosh has been a game changer for us and we use them for most things. Refillable bottles that you fill with concentrated pouches that they send you in the post.

I've switched out scented carpet refresher

Why do you even feel the need to put scented carpet refresher on your carpets? Do you have pets?

I use an eco egg

Do you do a high temperature service wash with something that can kill mould on a regular basis? I used eco eggs for a while and found that my washer started to smell and DD’s eczema got worse.

I use microfibre cloths all the time, and just use water on my windows. With the right cloths you don’t even need to use vinegar. I have the Flash magic eraser which is unbelievably effective on stubborn stains on hard surfaces.

Why is your loo getting stained? Our loos don’t tend to stain because they get wiped down every day with damp loo roll that then gets flushed. I do squirt some loo cleaner down them every now and again to freshen them.

Ours stains because we have hard water. Its limescale.

I just dump some white vinegar down the loo on a day where everyone is out so it sits for hours. It completely gets rid of the limescale under the waterline, but I haven't had much success with the ring at the water level. Any tips, anyone?

@oktelephone3 I'm using Botanical Origin eco laundry detergent :) definitely as good as my usual persil but natural ingredients, good for the environment and made for sensitive skin! Got it at Tesco :)