It's easy to be clean and green

It's easy to be clean and green It might be argued that spring cleaning is in our DNA. He is from India. She is from France. When Jangchup moved to Quebec, he spoke little French. "The fumes triggered my first sinus infection," Guico said. After that, I began reading labels more carefully and realized I couldn't pronounce the majority of the ingredients in the cleaners I was using. Now my basic spring-cleaning ingredients are vinegar, essential oils, baking soda and a good all-purpose cleaning liquid. "I find bringing order to a space is deeply satisfying, almost therapeutic," he said. Jangchup is the owner of Good Karma Cleaning, a Montrealbased housecleaning service that uses only eco-friendly products. Tenzin Jangchup has made it his business to provide people the all-natural cleaning option. But now the hip and happening young folk in big cities back East are learning they don't need toxic chemicals - they can clean with washing soda, borax, vinegar, baking soda, essential oils, vegetable oil-based liquid soaps, spray bottles, shaker jars, cotton rags, natural scrub pads and brushes. Some companies are simply rebranding old products as new with a change to the packaging or logo and not the ingredients themselves. Jangchup credits the Internet for helping educate people about safer ways to keep the home clean. This is not news to the Birkenstock-shod denizens scattered from James Bay to Sooke or Sidney and across the Gulf Islands. Easy as pie. He launched the business 18 months ago and did all of the cleaning by himself for 1 year, but business picked up so speedily, he has hired three more cleaners. The co-op stocks products by Bio-Vert (produced near Montreal), Nature Clean (Markham, Ont. It might not mean green at all. Cleaning with products we've grown aware of through massive marketing campaigns is part of our routine. "The biggest misconception about eco-friendly cleaning is that the products do not work," Jangchup said. Grocery stores and hardware stores usually carry some natural products, and natural-food stores also stock good selections of eco-friendly brands. . It's easy to be clean and green Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 13/05/2012