Bon Ami cleanser

[leafylady]

I love Bon Ami cleanser. It's active ingredient is calcium carbonate. It works better than baking soda or borax on tubs and sinks. It even cleans up the hard water stains without all of the nasty acids. There are no fumes. It doesn't irritate my skin. Its only risk is that it's considered an eye irritant, probably because it's an abrasive dust.

It is recommended as a good and safe commercial cleanser in the book "Clean and Green". Sorry I can't remember the author. She also wrote a book called "The Green Kitchen" or something like that. She gives lots of natural cleaner recipes in it. I got it at the library.

For the toilet, I've started using my Dr. Bronner's peppermint liquid body soap.

[Lila]

I like Dr. Bronner's Sal Suds for bathroom and kitchen. It has that lovely pine-sol smell (for people like me who associate it with cleanliness) yet it is ever so much safer. Highly reccommend it.

[leafylady]

I have Sal Suds too, but found that it wasn't too effective in our toilet. I think it has something to do with our well water. The regular peppermint soap works better for us in the toilet.

I like the pine smell of Sal Suds a lot and have used it as an all purpose cleaner in kitchen and bath, also for the floors.

More on Bon Ami- the calcium carbonate active ingredient is the same form of calcium that's in my calcium carbonate.

[hugosmoma]

It's Bon Ami for me too!
I've used tons of toxic, icky cleansers since I have lived in many icky apts with bad long-term cleaning issues. When I was pregnant with ds (now three), I switched to using only bon ami and Restore all-purpose cleanser from the co-op. Ironcially, the bon ami takes the build-up off the tub like nothing else has. Our city water has an abundance of minerals and we have much hard residue. The other cleansers seems to just move it around and get the stuff slimely, which made the tub cleaning a long process. Now, I wet the tub, spinkle and rub the effective paste all over the surface. I close the door and let sit for 30 mins, come back, rub down, and am done in ten minutes with full rinsing. The paste seems to dissolve the bathtub ring. Oh, and I love the healthy smell of all the "natural" all purpose cleansers at the health food stores. Yummy. Has anyone tried the almond dishsoap? It's my ravin' favorite!