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By: ImPerceptibility » Sun & Earth Cleaners: My Opinion (Part 1)

ImPerceptibility » Sun & Earth Cleaners: My Opinion (Part 1) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:28:12 +0000

[...] reader named Joe recommended Sun & Earth cleaners in the comments of my Environmental Friendly Cleaners Suck post. I went to the Sun & Earth web site and took advantage of the free sample offer. You have [...]

By: ImPerceptible

ImPerceptible — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:19:18 +0000

Thanks Naomi. I’ll have to try out a few of these. I never considered alcohol in a spray bottle. I’ll give that a try as well.

By: naomipoe

naomipoe — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:38:31 +0000

I use Ecover products almost exclusively — like them hell-yeah-better than Sun and Earth (and I thought sun and earth was all right-enough).

I buy everything by the case.
Let’s see:

The all purpose cleaner works for everything and is safe for all floors (I have hardwood, lin., and tile)– excepting carpet… It is a clean, mild citrus scent. Vera’vera’ concentrated. A case lasts me about a year.

The Tile floor cleaner supposedly rocks (heard this from a friend, but I’m too ‘frugal’ to buy it, since the good ol’ all purpose cleaner works well.)

Dishwasher tablets outperformed/ were as good as the cascade complete in Consumer reports testing, and are cheaper (gasp!). Good for the environment too.

The dishwashing soap rocks — soooooo loyal to this one. I’ll never use another brand EVER. Once again, I get a year minimum out of a case, and we have a LARGE family and do lottsa dishes. WAYYYY better than anything out there, iwth a light, clean scent.

The Toilet Bowl Cleaner is my absolute fave of the bunch… it smells like those evergreen/pinetree-stickers I used to get from my first-grade teacher, for being good-ish… (I was an ornery kid), and cleans seriously better than the strongest stuff I’ve bought commercially. Once again, with two bathrooms, a case has lasted me over a year (It’s been a year and I’m only a third through the case, and I clean the bathroom everytime someone drops a load, pardon-the-french)

The mirror cleaner…. meh. Skip it. It has an annoying scent (too floral) and sucks at what it’s supposed to do. In all honesty, the best advice I received was to use straight rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle. But you can use Windex *g*

Guess this is a little late to reply, but I’m sure enjoying your blog… just couldn’t stop reading….
Naomi

By: ImPerceptible

ImPerceptible — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:02:46 +0000

Dragonfly - I tried several different recipes I found from blog searches but none of them did very well. I don’t clean my windows very often. That might be part of the problem :)

If you like, I can add a link to your husbands cleaner in the blog post.

By: dragonfly183

dragonfly183 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:29:49 +0000

My husband created and markets an earth friendly orange oil based cleaner. It conditions wood and if you use it along with a pressure washer will bring the color back into wood bleached gray by the sun. its removes soap scum very well. You just spray, let it sit for a few minutes and wipe. It will remove mold with a little bit of elbow grease (or a pressure washer, we use a pressure washer on the outside of our house) but not hours of scrubbing. I live in Arkansas so i know all about the mold your talkig about. Its not cheap though. Its 81 dollars for a gallon of concentrate.

what kind of window cleaning solution were you using. I use a strong mixture of vinegar and water and I have two cats, 2 large dogs, and 8 cats. I’ve never had trouble keeping my mirrors or windows clean.

By: ImPerceptible

ImPerceptible — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:14:19 +0000

I wash everything but bedding and towels in cold water and HE detergent. Hot water is supposed to kill dust mites and help out with my daughters allergies.

I was smart when we got new carpets. I bought the color my cream carpet turned into once we had kids. It’s still looking great three years later. :)

By: crunchy carpets

crunchy carpets — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:10:47 +0000

It makes me nuts too.
WE have mold galore AND dogs too and the vinegar doesn’t cut it except for washing the floor.

It was the same when we got the carpets cleaned..we hired a crew that used this earth friendly orange cleaner…but it just couldnt’ cut it.

For laundry my nod to helping energy etc..is using the tide for cold water and always washing in cold.

By: ImPerceptible

ImPerceptible — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:12:49 +0000

Thanks Joe. I ordered the samples from Sun & Earth and I am looking forward to trying them out.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:24:37 +0000

Forget the Method, 7th Generation and the other non toxic cleaners. They are good for the enviroment but do not clean. One exception is Sun & Earth natural cleaning products. The laundry detergent is great and made for HE washers. The other cleaning products work and I can buy them in the grocery store, not in Whole Foods where everything is so expensive. More importantly they are the least expensive of all the natural cleaners I have tried. The products are made in the U.S.A., somewhere near Phila.