Cleaning & Maid Services

First Method:
Natural Green Cleaners
You can clean your home using organic, natural products, without chemicals or synthetic ingredients- without spending a fortune! In fact, chances are you already have some natural cleaner in your home that have been there for a long time. Most of them are in your kitchen: Vinegar, Lemons, Olive oil, Salt, Baking Soda, a Plant – Based Detergent, in your laundry room: Borax, washing soda. In your bathroom: Hydrogen peroxide, Alcohol. You always can always choose to make your own cleaning products too. here are some tips for how to make your own cleaning products bu using some of the natural cleaning ingredients mentioned above:

Bathroom:
Toilet
Baking soda or Borax

White or apple cider vinegar

Hydrogen peroxide

To clean a toilet, use baking soda, white or apple cider vinegar and hydrogen peroxide, put the two liquids in separate spray bottles. Sprinkle toilet bowl with baking soda, then pouring some vinegar also into the bowl. Allow to stand for several minutes and scrub with toilet brush. Also use the bottle of vinegar and the hydrogen peroxide to spray all over the toilet one immediately after the other.

Shower, counters and fixtures
White vinegar

Natural Soaps, such coconut castile or natural detergent, dishwashing liquid

Warm fresh water

You may use vinegar on bathroom counters, sink and fixtures, porcelain tile, glass, fiber glass or other man made materials. NEVER USE VINEGAR ON MARBLE OR NATURAL SURFACES, and use only warm water. Instead of vinegar use castile, natural detergent or dishwashing liquid, put some drops inside of 750 mil (26 oz) spay bottles with warm water.

Tub
Baking soda

Salt

Natural dishwashing liquid or plant –based detergent

Warm fresh water

Mix one tablespoon of baking soda, one tablespoon salt, add a squirt of natural dishwashing or detergent and put some warm water. Make a paste, apply to the tub, scrub, rinse and dry with a cloth.

Kitchen
Counter tops, Cabinets and Refrigerator
Castile soap or Natural dishwashing liquid

Warm water

Mix one Tbsp castile soap or natural dishwashing soap with a quart of warm water, rinse well, and then dry with a cloth.

Stove top
1/2 tsp washing soda

¼ tsp natural liquid soap

2 cup hot water

Add washing soda and liquid soap to hot water in a spray bottle. Washing soda is caustic, so wear gloves.

Glass and Mirror
1 tablespoon of alcohol or lemon juice or vinegar

1 spray bottle of 750 ml (26 oz)

Warm water

Fill a clean spray bottle with (750 ml /26 oz) warm water and either white vinegar, lemon juice or alcohol. Wipe with a rag or old newspaper.

Furniture Polish
Olive Oil

Lemon Juice
Mix two parts oil with one part lemon juice, reduce the olive oil if wood looks too oily.

Floors
Linoleum
In a bucket mix a ½ cup white vinegar with 1-gallon hot water.
Wood
Clean the floor with water, but keep your mop damp so it will dry quickly. ( see what is recommended by the manufacturer).
Marble and Natural Stone
Use A few drops of natural dishwashing liquid and warm water.
Ceramic Tile
For glazed tiles, one cupful of alcohol in one gallon of water. For unglazed tile, like terra-cotta a few drops of Natural dishwashing liquid in one gallon of water.

All Purpose Cleaner
A ½ teaspoon of baking soda

A dab of Natural Liquid soap

Two cups of hot water

Combine these ingredients into a 750 ml (26 oz) spray bottle and mix thoroughly.

Second Method:
Microfiber
Also you can buy a set of Microfiber Cleaning Cloths. They cost about $ 5.00 to $ 13.00. The cost and quality will depend on the store and company, but basically there are four or five and they are avaiaable in different colors, each of them for specific task; one for floor, one for window and glass, other for dust and polish, one for kitchen and bath.  And do not forget to buy a microfiber floor mop which costs about $ 7.00 average. Microfiber cloth lifts and traps dust better of conventional cotton cloths and feather duster, microfiber cloths and mops capture and remove soils, bacteria more efficiently than traditional mopping and dusting materials. And you do not have to use chemicals. Microfiber is a man-made product that is manufactured by combining two: fiber, polyester (the scrubbing and cleaning fiber) and polyamide (the absorbing and quick drying fiber). They can be laundered and reused hundreds of time. When washing, use a very small amount of detergent. Micro fibers release the soil when washed very easily. The two products to avoid are bleach and fabric softener. Bleach will damage the fibers. Fabric softener eliminates static cling or electrostatic energy -this is a critical part of what makes a microfiber work. If you accidentally use some softener- just rewash the cloth- there won't be any permanent damage from this. No worry about machine washing in hot water. But never dry other cloths, rags,or towels with your micro fibers if you choose to machine dry them. They will pull all the lint off these other material and become so loaded that they may be worthless in the future. And a single cycle is fine for cleaning the cloths.

Third Method:
Consider using a steam vapor cleaning machine
Vapor Steam Cleaners remove dirt and stains, and kill dust mites, mold, germs, spores and bacteria with the use of water and non chemical cleaners. Vapor steam cleansers also it sanitize, disinfect, and makes deep cleaning easier by  reaching into those small spaces and corners that traditional cleaning machines have a hard time reaching. A small residential steam vapor unit cost around $ 30.00 dollars and if you want a steam mop too, you can expend another $ 50.00 dollars. But some Residential models can cost $ 400.00 dollars or more.

Written by Alejandro Abaunza of Nice and Clean Maids Services Inc.
(773) 307-9269
www.niceandcleanmaids.com