Living the green way with 11 tips

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Ecofirm

1 Green way to clean faucets, sinks or stainless steel: CUCUMBER

Use a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean. It will remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine without leaving streaks. The most important is it will not harm your fingers or fingernails.

2 Green way to remove oily stains: BABY POWDER

Put some baby powder on the stained area for some time before washing with detergent.

3 Green way to clean your sink or toilet ball: USED TOOTHPASTE

Cut the used toothpaste into half or three parts. Brush out the remaining toothpaste and apply it all over the sink or toilet bowl. Leave it for 10 15 minutes and then use a scrub to clean the areas. It will leave the sink and toilet bowl sparkling clean!

4 Green way to remove bad smell in the kitchen cabinet: PANDAN LEAVES

As we know, kitchen cabinet always a place full of cockroaches, lizards and ants. Hence, this makes the cabinet smells bad. We can use pandan leaves to make the cabinets smell fresh the natural way. It is cheap, your cabinets smell fresh, and the cockroaches stay away.

5 Green way to refresh cutting boards: LEMON

Rub the cutting boards all over with the cut side of a half lemon or wash it in undiluted juice straight from the bottle after chopping the onions, crushing garlic, cutting raw and cooked meat and chicken, and preparing fish to get rid of the smell and sanitize the cutting board.

6 Green way to fill the cracks in a flower pot or a dog bowl: CHEWING GUM

We can use piece of well-chewed gum to fill a crack in a clay flower pot or a dog bowl.

7 Green way to absorb vegetables odor: BREAD

Most of the people love cabbage or broccoli very much, but hate the smell white it is cooking! We can actually put a piece of white bread on top of the pot when cooking up smelly vegetables to absorb the odor.

8 Green way to iron out wrinkles: ICE CUBES

No time to wash your ready to-wear shirt which is full of wrinkles! Never mind! Wrap an ice cube in a soft cloth and rub over the wrinkle before ironing and the shirt will smooth out.

9 Green way to condition your hair: MAYONNAISE

We actually can condition our hair in a natural way. Massage mayonnaise into your hair and scalp it like the way you use hair conditioner. Cover your head with a shower cap few minutes and shampoo. The mayonnaise will moisturize the hair and give it a lustrous sheen.

10 Green way to make frozen fish taste fresh: MILK

Try this trick to make frozen fish taste fresh. By placing the frozen fish in a bath of milk until it thaws. The milk will make it taste fresher.

11 Green way to disinfect/ clean the cutting boards: VINEGAR

Do not use water and dishwashing detergent to disinfect the wood cutting board as it can weaken its surface fibers. We can disinfect by wiping them with full-strength white vinegar after each use. Vinegar is effective against many harmful bugs.

Samuel Tow is the Founder of the ecofirm organization. Please visit our website at http://ecofirm.org or submit your green site to http://ecofirm.org/directory

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