Quick! You have 5 secs. Off the top of your head, tell me what were the active ingredients in the last bathroom cleaning product you used? Most of us can't recite the ingredient. Either the ingredients aren't familiar to us or they're too hard to pronounce. When you think about it, it doesn't make much sense to utilize products in our homes that we barely know what their made of. Worse yet, is the fact we often EAT packaged and processed food that are also produced from ingredient that are foreign to us.

What we're doing is equivalent to an infant putting something in his mouth that we know he shouldn't. The BIG difference is that the infant doesn't yet have an understanding that this "something" is bad for him, where we (adults) should be more intelligent to wonder and research what it is we are using in and around ourselves.

Sometimes, I crack up to myself about the fact that we blindly use products without making an effort to question what the manufacturers are putting in them. It's almost as if we are paying these companies to poison us. We are basically saying to these companies:

"Hey ABC Manufacturer! Can I get a bottle of XXX product that you've jacked up with all those powerful chemical agents that are known to give lab animals cancer? And by the way, I don't mind wasting my hard earned money on your ridiculous prices! The more expensive the product, ABC Manufacturer, probably the harsher the chemicals and the greater the detriment to my health."

I know reading that paragraph above sounded super crazy. But in essence that's what we are saying to the manufacturer when we make no effort to be informed about their products.

Here's an easy, inexpensive recipe that you can use in your weekly cleaning routine. It works. It's made from ingredients that are easy to come by. It leaves your bathroom (or whatever surface you use it on) fresh and clean, clean. Can't beat that!

All-Natural Bathroom Cleaner
Ingredients
1 cup of baking soda
1/2 cup of salt
10-12 drops of tea tree oil
Water to consistency

Directions
Mix the baking soda and salt in a bowl. Stir in just enough water to form a thin paste. Add the tea tree oil and apply to bathroom surfaces with a stiff brush. Rinse clean. The salt is a mild abrasive and baking soda helps lift. Tea tree oil is a wonderful antibacterial and antifungal agent.