Home Turned Green

This guide to smart grout cleaning will show you how to clean tile grout without using harmful chemicals. Grout, the concrete looking substance in between tiles, attracts dirt and mildew and is notoriously hard to clean.

Traditional tile grout cleaning products contain harmful synthetic chemicals and toxins. These products will impact the indoor environmental quality of your home. There are around sixteen thousand petro-chemicals in commercial home cleaning products. Since homes are more insulated than ever before and we are using more commercial home cleaning products, the air outside your home is normally less polluted than the air inside. You should think about changing to green products to clean tile grout to help improve both the indoor and outdoor environment. This guide on how to clean grout will help make your home cleaner and more healthy.

Use baking soda as an environmentally friendly tile and grout cleaning solution. To help loosen any mold between the tiles, you should pour water over the tile you are cleaning before you begin. Next, pour baking soda over the tile. Using a toothbrush, scrub the baking soda into the tile grout then let it sit for about ten minutes to help begin the cleaning process. After you allow the baking soda to sit, use your toothbrush to aggressively scrub the tile gout. Even though we are using natural cleaning products, you should still wear plastic gloves to protect your hands. The baking soda will help disinfect and act as an abrasive agent for better cleaning. Plus, baking soda is a great deodorizer and will leave your bathroom with a fresh clean smell. To remove the baking soda, you should boil a few gallons of water and pour it over the tile. If your tile is not in a shower and does not have a drain, you will have to use rags to soak up the remaining water.

Home made grout cleaning products such as baking soda are a cheap but effective alternative to commercial home cleaning solutions. Many commercial cleaning products contain harmful chemicals that will pollute your indoor air and could have a negative heath impact. In addition to home made remedies, companies such as Seventh Generation offer green cleaning solutions. As the negative impact of commercial grout cleaning chemicals becomes more known, consumers will demand more earth friendly solutions. Even now, major traditional cleaning supplies companies such as Johnson and Johnson offer green alternatives to many of their products.