1. Healthy Grocery Shopping: Navigation Tips for Your Shopping Cart
Household Cleaners

2. Aisle Locations
Cleaning products have their own shelf, usually near the back of the store.

3. Green Alternatives
In earlier years, “green” option often left less than desired results during the cleaning process.
Recently, some of the leading Green companies have been testing their products against the leading conventional products and achieving similar results.

4. Cleaning Safety
Do…
Read and follow label directions for proper use, storage, and disposal.
Store cleaning products in an area away from food.
Store products in their original containers, keeping the original label intact. Product usage and disposal instructions, precautions, and first aid instructions vary according to their ingredients. It can be dangerous to use a product incorrectly or to follow the wrong emergency treatment guidelines.
Put cleaning products away immediately after removing the amount needed for the cleaning job at hand. This will limit accessibility to young children and help prevent accidental spills.
Properly close all containers.
Use products in a well ventilated area.

5. Cleaning Safety Don’t… Mix cleaning products.
Products which are safe when used alone can sometimes become dangerous if mixed with other products. As an example, avoid mixing products containing liquid household bleach (sodium hypochlorite) with products containing ammonia or acids. Such mixtures will release hazardous gases.
Reuse an empty household cleaning product container for another purpose.
The label instructions and precautions for one product may be dangerous to someone trying to use those instructions for a different purpose.

6. Make Your Own Cleaners Window Cleaner
1/2 cup vinegar to 1 gallon of water (or 2 tablespoons per quart) ~OR~
1/2 cup sudsy ammonia to 1 gallon water (or 2 tablespoons per quart)
Rust Stain and Hard Water Deposit Remover
Apply full-strength vinegar or lemon juice and let stand until spot disappears, then rinse. Repeat if necessary.
Fixtures
To clean stainless steel, chrome, fiberglass, ceramic, porcelain or enamel fixtures, dissolve 2 tbsp baking soda in 1 qt of water.

7. Lingering Smells in the Kitchen
If your kitchen has a bit of an odor, after you have finished cleaning, the smell might be coming from the garbage disposal.
To clean it, pour one half cup of baking soda down the kitchen drain. Carefully pour one cup of white vinegar down the drain on top of the baking soda. Place the drain stopper in the sink to close off the drain. Allow this to work its magic for a few minutes while you boil some hot water and pour it down the drain.
To sharpen the blades, place a few ice cubes in the drain and turn it on. For a fresh citrus sent include a little bit of lemon rind.

8. Sources