The four ingredients you need to ditch chemicals, clutter and plastic from your cleaning routine

Conventional cleaning products are an UN-necessary evil. They are over-packaged, loaded with chemicals and contribute to a significant amount of clutter in our home. Many also don’t even work that well! So we’re wasting money and harming our health and the planet’s when we can easily switch to just four natural ingredients that can clean our home safely AND effectively.

The problem with conventional cleaning products

The chemicals

I’ve been buying natural cleaning products for decades, not just because our planet is better off without all those chemicals but because I am too. Chlorine, phthalates, sodium hydroxide and sodium laureth sulfate are just some of the ingredients in common household cleaning products. Chemicals in cleaning products carry loads of different health risks, from infertility to cancer, as well as the environmental impacts when they enter waterways, where they may never break down, entering the food chain and coming back to bite us again.

The clutter

We keep our cleaning products in a corner cupboard in our kitchen. You know the ones under the bench with two shelves? So to reach something at the back of the bottom shelf we have to get down on our knees and take…