Why Go Green?
Green house cleaning in Atlanta can be done with proper planning. From shower cleaners and toilet bowl cleaners to the paint on your walls, we're living amongst more and more toxic chemicals. We are led to believe that everything we buy has been tested for safety and carefully monitored by the government. Sadly this is not the case, and the impact of these toxic chemicals can be detrimental to our health. Evidence has linked chemicals found in common household products to a range of conditions including cancer, asthma, allergies, hormonal disruption, and reproductive and developmental disorders. The decision to stop using these synthetic chemicals is one of the most important ones you'll ever make for the health of your family and the safety of your home. Additionally, knowing that everything leaves a footprint on the earth, the object of the game is to choose and use those ingredients that leave the smallest mark possible.
A Few Scary Facts
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims the air in our homes is two to five times more polluted than the air outside of our homes.
- The average home contains over 1,500 hazardous compounds. Over 150 chemicals found in the average home have been linked to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological abnormalities.
- According to an EPA study of human fatty tissues, every American man, woman and child carry at least 700 pollutants in his or her body.
Green House Cleaning in Atlanta - What you can do
- Grow a lot of houseplants in your home. They act as indoor air filters and remove air pollutants.
- Keep the windows open during the day to let the fresh air in.
- Install a carbon monoxide alarm. Carbon monoxide from cars in garages, space heaters and other home heating sources can be deadly.
- Never use air fresheners or room deodorizers.
- If a label includes the notice "Poison," "Danger," or "Warning," avoid the product all together.
- Only purchase cleaning products where the ingredients are listed on the label and make sure vegetable based surfactants are used.
- Do not use chlorine bleach or products containing it.
- Use natural, vegetable based laundry detergents. If every household in the U.S. replaced just one bottle of 50 ounce petroleum-based liquid laundry detergent with a 50 ounce natural detergent, we could save 280,000 barrels of oil, enough to heat and cool 16,000 U.S. homes for a year.

Green house cleaning in Atlanta starts with the very basic essentials and a little elbow grease.