0As you transition to eco-friendly living, it can feel like you stumble on many roadblocks along the way. It can be difficult to balance your green vision with the realities of a stressful daily life. Particularly for busy moms and pet owners, managing the additional hassle while maintaining eco-friendly goals can start to take its toll. No need to worry—environmentally-friendly cleaning shouldn’t mean struggling with ineffective cleaners and wrestling with DIY solutions. At Charlie’s Soap, we’re all about making cleaning easier, faster, and greener. Let’s talk the top 10 eco-friendly hacks to make life extra-easy for eco-conscious moms and pet owners.
Keep Stain-Fighters on Hand
When you have busybody kids and energetic pets to look after, life can throw the messiest curveballs when you least expect it. To limit the cleanup headache, it’s important to have easy-to-use, effective, green stain-fighters on hand. Whether you need a pretreatment for your kiddo’s soccer clothes or a powerful cleaner for muddy pawprints, Charlie’s has your back. All of our cleaners, from our stain solutions to our household cleaners, are made with the planet in mind—and still pack enough cleaning power to take on the biggest of life’s messes.
Clean Your Clothes and Your Washer
When you use regular cleaners, your washer accumulates lots of dirt and grime—not to mention loads of undissolved detergent and fabric softener. As this gunk builds up over time, it begins to affect your machine’s performance. A dirty washer is sure to leave you with soiled garments, stiff fabrics, lingering bacteria, and residual odor. To manage this, many machine guides recommend that you fit in a full cleaning cycle about once a month—but washing your washer should be the last thing you worry about on laundry day.
That’s where Charlie’s Soap comes in. All of our detergents are designed to dissolve completely and disappear down the drain during the final rinse, leaving no grime, grease, or residue behind. Our cleaners are so powerful that they effectively clean your washer while laundering your clothes. Simply using Charlie’s Soap is the best way to keep your machine in tip-top shape without excessive maintenance.
Make an All-In-One Laundry Solution
Between our stain-fighters and our detergents, Charlie’s Soap offers a variety of laundry solutions. In particular, our powder detergent, oxygen bleach, and hard water booster are a dream team for tackling stains. Together, these green cleaners blast through heavy soil of all types, leaving your clothes feeling (and smelling) fresh. For added convenience during wash day, simply mix up your own all-in-one laundry solution. Combine our powder detergent, oxygen bleach, and hard water booster in equal amounts. Then, store the mixture in a sealed box out of the way of water. For a full load of laundry, simply add three scoops of your all-in-one laundry solution to get the benefits of three Charlie’s Soap cleaners.
Use Eco-Friendly Dryer Balls
Dryer balls have become a popular eco-friendly alternative to single-use dryer sheets. They’re the perfect, long-lasting way to reduce static cling (and your carbon footprint). They also work to shorten dry time, which helps you conserve energy and save on your power bill.
Charlie’s Soap dryer balls are made to last with high-quality heat-resistant material. By simply tossing a few of our dryer balls into your next dry cycle, you can reduce dry time by up to 25%. That makes for shorter laundry days with a higher standard of green living.
Spray Bottles Are Your Best Friend
One of the first steps to convenient cleaning—ditch the bucket. While a bucket full of an effective cleaning agent is necessary for some jobs, it’s great to skip the hassle whenever possible. Choose an eco-friendly cleaner in a convenient spray bottle to make touch-ups a breeze, or make one on the fly by adding a scoop of Charlie’s oxygen bleach to a spray bottle of water.
Repurpose Your Newspaper
Newspapers are ideal to use in cleaning. Their thin texture allows you to easily buff tricky surfaces like mirrors and windows. Combined with a powerful, streak-free cleaner like Charlie’s multipurpose Kitchen & Bath cleaner, old newspapers may be the secret to crystal-clean windows and sparkling mirrors.
Neutralize Odors
For those with pets and children, odor management quickly crawls to the top of the priorities. However, traditional deodorizers, like chlorine bleach, use harsh, caustic chemicals to neutralize odor. Luckily, they’re far from the only choice. Charlie’s Soap non-chlorine oxygen bleach is designed to tackle odors along with stains and grease—with natural, green cleaning power. From clothes to carpets, our oxygen bleach is gentle enough to fabrics of every type and powerful enough to break through lingering odors.
Furniture and Pillow Covers
Furniture and pillow covers are a great way to make cleaning a breeze. These covers come in every shape, size, and design, so you can choose whatever works for you. When tiny, messy hands or dirty paws wreak havoc on your living room sofa, you can simply strip the covers and toss them in the wash with a powerful stain-fighting detergent.
Don’t Forget the Dishwasher
Your dishwasher can be an important part of your cleaning arsenal. Since it uses high heat, the dishwasher is ideal for disinfection. Many bath toys, plastic items, building blocks, pacifiers, and teething rings are safe to clean in the dishwasher. Similarly, pet toys, food bowls (ceramic, plastic, and metal), and synthetic collars or leashes are usually good to go through a dishwasher cycle for hassle-free cleaning. To get that Charlie’s Soap clean, just add ½ tablespoon of Charlie’s powder laundry detergent, ½ tablespoon of Charlie’s natural hard water booster, and ½ tablespoon of Charlie’s non-chlorine oxygen bleach to the dispensing area and start a regular load. For extra convenience, you can make a large batch of equal parts powder, booster, and bleach—then, just add 1 tablespoon of your dish detergent for sparkling clean dishes. For Charlie’s Soap dishwashing hacks and more, check out our FAQs.
Find Trustworthy Multi-Purpose Products
Charlie’s Soap has developed several trustworthy multi-purpose cleaners, so you can manage your to-do list while keeping your eco-friendly goals. Our Kitchen & Bath and Indoor & Outdoor cleaners offer some serious multi-purpose cleaning power. Combined with our 1001 Degreaser, which has over a thousand uses, you can tackle messes big and small. Explore more cleaning solutions from Charlie’s Soap.
