Don't subject your family and pets to toxins while cleaning your home. Try using organic cleaning products and give your home a Green Spring cleaning this year. You can use green cleaning products that allow you to safely sanitize your home, unclog your drains, and even eliminate bugs. Most importantly you can use eco-friendly cleaning products around kids and pets, and not subject them to harmful toxins in the process. Learn how to get started in green cleaning your home.

There are eco-friendly solutions for cleaning your home that are made without toxic chemicals. These non-toxic cleaners work overtime to eliminate the grease, grime, and odors that accumulate in our homes over the winter months. Once you try using green cleaning products, you'll never want to go back to the bleach smelling, toxin filled ones you used to use.

Make Spring cleaning a fun experience for the whole family. Pick a weekend to do it and make a list of things that need done, and who's job it will be to do each one. Make it a team effort to green clean your home. When it’s finished, take your helpers out to dinner to celebrate job well done.

1. Launder all curtains, comforters, and slipcovers with organic laundry soap. Try Nellies Soda Laundry, it will get your clothes clean without leaving a residue. Toss a lavender-filled sachet into the dryer to infuse your linens with a floral scent. You can also opt to use dryer balls that don't contain any harmful ingredients.
2. To start cleaning each room and begin at the top and work your way down. Use a natural, biodegradable cleaner to clean dirt and dust off of ceilings, walls, and other high surfaces.
3. Wash windows inside and out with a biodegradable, hypo-allergenic solution. Most traditional glass cleaners use solvents such as alcohol, glycol ethers or ammonia, which are respiratory irritants. Seventh Generation has an excellent hypo-allergenic cleaning product for sparkling, streak-free windows.
4. Next, move all furniture and thoroughly vacuum underneath it. Have the carpet steam cleaned by a service that employs high heat methods rather than uses toxic cleaning chemicals.
5. Sort all winter clothing for donation before storing it away for the season. Declutter all closets and the garage, cleaning under and around everything and reorganizing tools, camping equipment, and sports equipment.
6. If your having problems with bugs in your home, exterminate them by using a safe, non-toxic solution called Battle. You can use this eco-friendly bug killer around children and pets without worry.

Many toxic compounds are known to cause cancer in animals; some are suspected to cancer in humans, as well. Fortunately, there are measures you can take to improve the air quality in your home; using eco cleaning products is one of them. Learn more about green living at Eco Lifestyles.