A clean house is more than just preferable it’s a necessity for good mental and physical health. Experts agree that maintaining a regular cleaning schedule is just as important as eating organic food, exercising regularly, and taking vitamins. Cleaning for your health provides real benefits.
Skeptical? Find out how to protect yourself and your family from these hidden dangers lurking in the most unlikely places.
Indoor air is 5X more polluted
If you’re anything like the average person, you spend 90% of your time indoors. While you’re there you’re breathing in dust mites, pet dander, pollen, mold, bug skeletons, and endotoxins. Symptoms most people attribute to allergies such as itchy eyes, runny nose, and wheezing can actually be blamed on a house that isn’t cleaned regularly.
More than 500,000 bacteria are living in your kitchen drain
Countertops, sinks, drains, sponges and rags are home to thousands of germs and bacteria. Luckily water and natural cleaning agents like vinegar, citrus oils, and vegetable-based cleansers wash these microscopic nasties away. Make sure to clean with natural, eco-friendly products after you prepare any meal. Sponges can be sanitized in the dishwasher or in the microwave! Yep, microwaving a sponge will kill any germs hiding in its porous surface after just 20 seconds.
Clean leafy greens, potatoes, and berries – oh my!
Those foods are 3 of the 10 riskiest foods according to the Food and Drug Administration because of their propensity for passing on food-based sicknesses like E Coli and Salmonella. Your first line of defense? The cutting board. Keep several boards in your kitchen and separate them according to the foods you use them for. Meats on one and vegetables on the other. Wash the cutting boards in hot water with a natural cleanser. And if it smells bad, try washing with lemon juice to naturally disinfect and refresh your favorite cutting boards.
There are more bacteria living in your bathtub than the garbage can
The good news is that the germs and viruses come off our body when we bathe. The bad news is that they stay in the tub until it’s disinfected.
Every time you take a bath or shower, you remove germs and viruses from your body. That’s the great news. But all the bad stuff doesn’t conveniently slide down the drain or die on the porcelain; some of it thrives if those surfaces stay moist.
Your bathroom floor has more germs than the toilet seat
Microscopic particles of waste are sprayed across the bathroom floor every time we flush. Stop the insanity by closing the toilet lid before you flush and cleaning the floor with a natural disinfectant once a week. Moisture goes with germs like peanut butter and jelly, so be sure to mop up after a shower and hang up damp floor mats to dry.
Cluttered environments lead to cluttered minds
When our homes and offices are clean we are more organized, more productive, and happier in general. That’s no accident. Humans are incredibly visual and being in the center of clutter translates to a feeling of internal unrest. Regular cleaning maintains a sense of calm and organization in your life, which translates to a happier and more stress-free daily life.
GreenHouse Eco-Cleaning offers a regular cleaning maintenance plan that’s cost effective and healthy. Busy lives don’t leave much time for regular cleaning, but as you can see it’s important for your physical and mental well-being.