How "green" is clorox greenworks?

Kris&KC

I'm new to this whole movement and was looking for a new kitchen cleaner at Target today.  They have seventh generation products, but I also saw that clorox has a new green line-- is it for real or is seventh gen better?

thejennigirl

I'd skip the labels and go this route:

https://www.sideroad.com/Budgeting/homemade-cleaners.html

 The homemade stuff really works!

maramarrie

consumer reports (or shopsmart) just had an article about this. I'll see if I can find it. They compared traditional cleaners to green ones.

pixieprincss

IMO making your own is better for the enviornment and cheaper. It also is very easy. Here is my blog entry on it:

https://pixieprincss.blogspot.com/search/label/Cleaning%20Green

maramarrie

The article (Nov 08 Shopsmart) says that there is no government regulation on what it means to be "green" so they can only go by company claims. The company claims that it's made mostly with plant and mineral based cleaners (like lemon oil). The reports says that the Green Works Natural Bathroom Cleaner was the best green cleaner and out cleaned many traditional products. They said it was good for daily wipedowns and left no streaks. It worked on rust stains. The bummer was that it wasn't as good cleaning built-up mildew, but it's good at stopping slime before it creeps in if you use it more often.

As for Seventh Generation, they don't have any reviews for the bathroom cleaner, but really didn't like the Seventh Generation Natural Glass & Surface Cleaner Spray. They said water cleaned as well as this product. There is a recipe to make your own glass cleaner with ammonia, rubbing alcohol, and dishwashing liquid.

MrsAHoffman

The ingredients seem fine to me, that is... if they are disclosing all of them.

MawrtyrB

Thanks, I was curious about this myself.  I think the bathroom cleanser works well. I was impressed with it.