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Green Cleaning with Essential Oils

by Zia Munshi

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I love cleaning supplies, pure and simple. The sight of all those spray bottles, prepackaged cleaning wipes in the supermarket, and most of all, the scented candles always gives me a little lift, thinking about a fragrant, sparkling house where all my worries have been magically scrubbed away. But, I never buy them.

I've been making my own green supplies for years. After a while, I started to miss that, well, clean smell. Who wants to smell vinegar? On the other end of the spectrum, baking soda sure cleans well, but it doesn't smell like anything at all. At the same time, I was starting to become interested in the benefits of essential oils. So why not use them to clean? And I was off to a roaring start.

These days, all my cleaning supplies use essential oils. All you need to do is purchase the oils (which may seem like a major investment, but they last a long, long time.) In addition to making your house smell wonderful, there are benefits to each. Here's a list of my favorites and how to use them:

Most of all, experiment with what works for you. If you don't like tea tree (many don't), use eucalyptus. If you don't like lavender, try something else, like geranium or bergamot. But whatever you do, happy cleaning!

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