Making the switch to eco-friendly products isn’t just a trendy move – it’s a smart one. If you can keep your home fresh and clean without any toxic chemicals, why wouldn’t you? The truth is, eco-friendly cleaners are a win for your health, your wallet, and our planet. Read on as we do a deep dive into the world of sustainable cleaning and how it can benefit your home – in more ways than one.
What Are Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products?
Eco-friendly cleaners are made with natural, non-toxic ingredients – think essential oils, vinegar, baking soda, and other plant-based components. This means they’re kinder for the environment (hence the eco-friendly part), but there are plenty more reasons to use them.
What are the Benefits of Using Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products?
They’re safer for your health
Conventional cleaning products are packed full of toxic ingredients, making the perfect recipe for skin rashes, watery eyes, a scratchy throat, and even irritated lungs. Eco-friendly alternatives, on the other hand, use milder, natural ingredients that are much less likely to set off any of those problems.
They’re kid- and pet-safe
Kids are curious, and so are pets. The last thing you want, though, is for them to stumble upon a kitchen cupboard full of chemical cocktails. With eco-friendly products (and their non-toxic formulas), you can rest easy knowing your little ones – or furry ones – stay safe as they go on their adventures around the house.
They’re kinder to our planet
The name says it all – eco-friendly products are all about being gentler on the environment. This is key because the harsh ingredients in traditional cleaners often end up in our waters or floating around in the air, only adding to the pollution burden that is already heavy enough.
They’re more cost-effective
You may think that eco-friendly products are too exy, but you actually get a good bang for your buck. These solutions often come in concentrates that last ages, so you end up spending less in the long run. They’re also more versatile – you can use them all around your home, instead of having to splash out on different products for each room.
They get the job done
Safe, eco-friendly, budget-friendly and effective? Sounds too good to be true, but it is. Choose the right eco-friendly products and you can achieve results that outperform conventional cleaners. No harsh chemicals or constant scrubbing around, just a sparkling space that’s good for you and our planet.
Different Types of Eco-Friendly Cleaners
DIY solutions
You can make your own cleaning products from scratch and the benefit here is that you know exactly what’s in them. A combination we’ve all used before is vinegar with baking soda, but there are other ingredients you can use, like lemon, cornstarch, and essential oils. No unpronounceable chemicals involved.
The downside? DIY cleaners require more time and effort on your end. Plus, they’re often not as powerful as the eco-friendly, store-bought stuff, and they don’t last as long either. You may save a few bucks upfront when you’re buying the ingredients, but in the long run, DYIng isn’t as cost-effective.
Natural products
Just like the name suggests, natural cleaners are made with ingredients straight from nature. The formulas are simple and the results are effective. And unlike DIY solutions, they don’t require you to gather the ingredients, measure them out, mix them up, and hope your concoction does the trick.
The thing is they don’t always provide a long-lasting clean. You wipe down your surfaces and they’re clean at that moment, but before you know it, the bacteria start creeping back in. This is because there’s one key component missing from many natural cleaners: probiotics.
Probiotic cleaning products
When you’re at the shops, you’ll see a whole bunch of cleaning products promising to kill 99.9% of bacteria in your home. Sounds great, right? Well… wrong. Conventional cleaners kill good bacteria along with (some) of the harmful ones. And the remaining 0.1% they leave behind can mutate, grow biofilms to protect themselves, and lead to bacterial infections.
Probiotic solutions, on the other hand, crowd out harmful bacteria and leave them to die, instead of multiply. They go one step further than natural alternatives. Not only are they family, pet, budget, and eco-friendly, but they also help to restore balance to your home’s microbiome.
A great example of this – and let us toot our own horn for a bit here – is our Universal Probiotic Cleaner, powered by 60 billion probiotics to help you achieve a clean that is:
- Balanced, fostering a healthy microbiome on all your surfaces
- Deeper, working microscopically to clean what you see – and what you don’t
- Longer, continuously cleaning for up to 3 days
- Fresher, not only controlling odours but eliminating them at the source
Making the Eco-Friendly Switch
Why stick with harsh chemicals when eco-friendly solutions offer even better results without the downsides? Make the switch to probiotic cleaning with Orbies and see the difference it can make for your space first-hand.
