Natural carpet cleaning is gaining popularity as more people look for safer, more natural options than the usual chemical products. In this short post we’ll cover 3 common environmentally friendly carpet cleaning options, including: eco-friendly carpet cleaning professionals, homemade carpet cleaner and steam cleaning.
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Eco-Friendly Carpet Cleaning Professionals
Thanks to growing awareness about the potential health impacts of carpet cleaning, a new breed of professional services has sprung up that eschews dangerous and polluting chemicals in favor of more natural solutions. Some of the newer and more green-friendly cleaning solutions used by professional services are plant instead of chemical based, and include such brand names as Bi-O-Kleen, Capture, AFM SafeChoice, NatureClean, SimpleGreen and Seventh Generation’s Natural Citrus Carpet Cleaner.
Most carpet cleaning services are local businesses, and many have greened-up their processes in recent years. If you need your carpets cleaned you should call around and ask questions. If a service doesn’t know whether their cleaning solution is plant or chemical based, or if they don’t have systems in place to treat or transport wastewater responsibly after cleaning, they should probably be avoided.
A few chains also stand out for their commitment to more natural carpet cleaning operations. ChemDry, a division of Home Depot, uses carbonating cleaning bubbles instead of harsh chemicals to remove dirt from carper fibers. The company claims it uses a fraction of the water of other services and avoids harmful detergents, solvents and enzymes. Another is Zoots, which operates ‘green’ dry cleaning stores in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States and which was recognized by Inc. magazine in 2006 as one of the top 50 green companies in the U.S. Source: Environment.About
Homemade Carpet Cleaner
Green carpet cleaning options fall into two categories: homemade carpet cleaner used for DIY cleaning, and store-bought products that claim to do as good a job as traditional solutions.
If you choose to tackle stains yourself without using harsh chemicals, you have several options.
First, you can make a nontoxic solution of equal parts white vinegar and water. Spray it on stains and then sponge it up after a few minutes using warm soapy water.
For tougher stains, you can use a combination of vinegar, borax and salt. Together they create a paste that you spread on stains, leave overnight and vacuum up in the morning.
Baking soda is also effective on many organic stains. Simply pour it on, rub it into the carpet and leave it until it’s dried. If caught early enough, most of the stain will be sucked up by the soda. Source: Angieslist
Steam Cleaning
Steam cleaning and extraction is a good way of cleaning carpets. The procedure often only incorporates basic, mild cleaning agents that are not harmful to the environment. Source: DoItYourself
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