what are the best organic/natural cleaners & do they make an anti bacterial?

[mad4mybaby]

im vry germ consious (bordering ocd) but i have 2.6 and 8 week ds's both get ezcema so i want to get some products that are those natural ones. im not worried about them being good for the environment (sorry!) but good for them, particularly bathroom cleaners. can you get one that is antibacterial aswell?? do these products really work??

tia

Make your own

All you need is vinegar, olive oil, baking soda, cornstarch, toothpaste, cream of tartar and lemon. oh and we use soap flakes for washing clothes. soda crystals can be toxic so don't like to use those with DS around. toothpaste is great for cleaning brass, silver or stainless steel and removing crayon marks from the floor and wooden furniture. Also if you rub gently on water marks on wood with a damp cloth it removes them.

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If you can't be bothered making your own ecover do an excellent range.

And Method. You can apparently even drink their products, although they don't taste very nice and they recommend following up with plenty of water if you do (their boss bloke has a habit of doing it for journalists).

Why do you want antibacterial? IMO under most circumstances antibacterial anything is overreaction (and obsessive bacteria-zapping, as opposed to just cleaning, is likely to lead to immune systems that don't get a proper workout). I have alcohol hand gel for times I really need to anti some bacteria (for example, am in India at the moment and I don't want to give the DCs' immune systems too good a workout ).

You could use rubbing alcohol for added antibacteialness, I suppose.

I love the ecover stuff. Anything else seems to leave my chest tight for days afterwards. I don't use an antibac spray any more and we're all still here to tell the tale.

its really for the toilet that i want the anti bac for. ds1 isnt yet potty trained so i guess that isnt much of a prob..

are they as got as flash etc with getting stuff clean?

My thoughts on loos etc are that unless you've got a tummy bug or something that general cleaners should be fine. Obviously if somebody is ill, then you might want to be using anti-bac or bleach for cleaning.

I personally think that the Ecover range doesn't clean as well as the really nasty stuff that you can get (e.g. cillit bang and the like). However, for day to day cleaning, they are fine. You just need to keep a bit more on top of things.

My favourite loo cleaner is baby wipes. The Morrisons value ones (think 48p for 100) are fab. I wipe the loo over every day (seat, lid and bowl) with these, and nothing ever builds up that way.

The guardian did a review of envirnmentally friendly cleaning products and sprays a while ago and asda's own 'green' range (I cant recall the name) came out ahead of Ecover. I tried Ecover washing up liquid and didnt get on with it at all.