Comments on: Harmful Chemicals in Carpet Cleaners http://www.greenhomehints.com/2008/12/17/harmful-chemicals-in-carpet-cleaners/ Find eco-friendly homemade recipes, green cleaning products, green pet products, household energy saving tips, organic gardening at home and any more eco-friendly lifestyle tips. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:39:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Corry Bakker http://www.greenhomehints.com/2008/12/17/harmful-chemicals-in-carpet-cleaners/comment-page-1/#comment-8257 Corry Bakker Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:27:28 +0000 http://www.greenhomehints.com/?p=146#comment-8257 Not exactly carpet or rugs, but I have found that vinegar and water solution is great for cleaning most types of bare floors. Mix up 1 cup vinegar with 1 gallon warm water (be sure it's warm!) and mop it onto a ceramic tile, linoleum, vinyl, or wood floor. There is no need to rinse afterward. If your floors looks a little dull after cleaning, you can give it a shine by mopping it over again with straight club soda. Don't saturate wood floors. For carpets and rugs I would use a powerful steam cleaner with no extra chemicals (except safe ones) like you mention above. <a href="http://www.fuzzywuzzyrug.com" rel="nofollow"> Corry Bakker Not exactly carpet or rugs, but I have found that vinegar and water solution is great for cleaning most types of bare floors. Mix up 1 cup vinegar with 1 gallon warm water (be sure it’s warm!) and mop it onto a ceramic tile, linoleum, vinyl, or wood floor. There is no need to rinse afterward. If your floors looks a little dull after cleaning, you can give it a shine by mopping it over again with straight club soda. Don’t saturate wood floors.

For carpets and rugs I would use a powerful steam cleaner with no extra chemicals (except safe ones) like you mention above.

Corry Bakker

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