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Replace Your Artificial Fragrances
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Replace Your Artificial Fragrances

Experts' concerns about the proliferation of fragrances have to do with their potential effects on our health. We'll show you how to be savvy about fragrances and transition to unscented or botanically scented products -- some of which might even benefit your well-being.

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DIY Natural Scents for Your Home
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DIY Natural Scents for Your Home

Reacquaint yourself with plant fragrances by incorporating these health-enhancing essential oils into your life. At natural-foods stores, look for personal-care products that contain them (not their artificial counterparts), or buy the oils themselves and try our do-it-yourself suggestions.

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Tub Scrub
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Tub Scrub

Here's a nontoxic but effective way to clean your tub: Add one teaspoon of liquid soap and several drops of an antibacterial essential oil (such as tea tree, eucalyptus, rosemary, or peppermint) to one cup of baking soda. Add just enough water to form a paste, and use it with a sponge or brush to scour bathtub surfaces.
Clean the Natural Way
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Clean the Natural Way

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need high-octane chemicals to render a home spic-and-span. Three new brands of natural cleaners are proof.

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Luxe Eco-Linens
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Luxe Eco-Linens

When it comes to buying new linens, think green. Toweling off with bamboo and snuggling up at night under sheets colored with fiber-reactive dyes is a whole lot cozier than it sounds -- and that's good news for the earth.

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Keep Your Fireplace Safe
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Keep Your Fireplace Safe

If worries about fireplace fumes leave you cold, warm up to recycled fire logs, which steer clear of dangerous toxins such as petroleum and paraffin wax found in traditional "logs."

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Nontoxic Stain Removers
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Nontoxic Stain Removers

For basic nontoxic stain removal, mix up a little grandmother knowledge and apply it liberally. The principles behind creating stain removers -- or nearly all household cleaners -- are relatively simple.

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Clearing Household Pollutants
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Clearing Household Pollutants

To beat the heat and keep allergies at bay, we often seal ourselves inside our comfy, climate-controlled homes, not realizing that the air in there may not be much better. According to the EPA, indoor air pollution levels are typically at least twice as high as levels outside.

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Recycling Basics
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Recycling Basics

For many of us, recycling is an event that ends at the curb. But as you'll find out, that's just the beginning. Find out everything you need to know about recyling.

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How to Save Household Energy
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How to Save Household Energy

Despite skyrocketing fuel prices and diminishing resources, household energy use and its consequential pollution continue to climb. A few strategic shifts can reduce your home's impact on the environment -- we're talking thousands of pounds of greenhouse gas emissions -- while saving you hundreds of dollars on energy bills and more in taxes.

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Eco Flooring
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Eco Flooring

Think a greener floor means chilly stone, scratchy gray wool, and a budget in the red? Not anymore. Today's eco-flooring choices boast competitive prices, rich colors, and varied surfaces from smooth linoleum to warm cork -- and all of them spell good news for your health.

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Get a Jump on Spring Cleaning
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Get a Jump on Spring Cleaning

There's more to deep cleaning than mopping up the mudroom and sponging the baseboards.

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Get a Green Home

Replace Your Artificial Fragrances

DIY Natural Scents for Your Home

Tub Scrub

Clean the Natural Way

Luxe Eco-Linens

Keep Your Fireplace Safe

Nontoxic Stain Removers

Clearing Household Pollutants

Recycling Basics

How to Save Household Energy

Eco Flooring

Get a Jump on Spring Cleaning

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