Green Reston

The Sweet - Toxic - Smell of Clean

You can have an eco-friendly home with natural products.

I recently posted on my Facebook page the question, "What does clean smell like to you?" The responses were right in line with what I thought many would say, and exactly what I would have said 10 years ago. The responses ranged from bleach, to pine cleaner, to ammonia. When I'm shopping in our local Whole Foods here in Reston, I notice that the offering of eco-friendly cleaning products is vast and covers everything from tile cleaner to air freshener. I have to say that the residents of Reston are quite eco-conscious, and my friends and neighbors tend to buy cleaning products that are safe for their families, but we all have that one thing that we know is not exactly "eco" yet we still buy and use it. In our home growing up we used Lysol …