Clean and Healthy Living

More and more, consumers are becoming aware of the impact the many products we purchase has on our health and environment. The fact is that we’ve lived in a kind of ignorant bliss up ‘till now, though bliss may be stretching it – after all, a variety of illnesses and diseases can be traced back to the misuse of chemicals in our foods and around the house. Furthermore, the environment can be negatively impacted by the amount of toxic fumes and chemicals we have flooded it with in recent years.

While we can’t erase the mistakes of the past, we can begin to make the right decisions about the products we use in our homes. When it comes to cleaning your hotel or motel, however, it can seem difficult or even impossible to do so in an environmentally responsible manner. After all, the most effective cleaning solutions seem to be the most toxic.

Green Cleaning 

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Fortunately, the “green cleaning” movement has come along to provide a solution to your eco-friendly cleaning dilemma. Not so much a movement as a collection of cleaning methods that are made to be environmentally friendly, green cleaning involves the use of cleaning substances and techniques that are designed to preserve your health as well as the quality of your environment.

These techniques do not use chemically reactive and toxic cleaning products that contain toxic chemicals or which otherwise emit organic compounds that can cause the breathing and skin problems that are so often associated with cleaning products. How many times have you walk through a freshly-cleaned, gleaming room, and come out the other end short of breath, your eyes irritated, or with a rash? It happens more often than you’d like to admit! With green cleaning, these toxic baths are a thing of the past.

Beyond being good for your personal health, green cleaning products are also biodegradable, and in containers that are themselves good for the environment, whether they were manufactured in such a way as to preserve the environment or whether the containers themselves are biodegradable. Being

Green Starts at Home

You have a number of options when it comes to making green cleaning a regular practice. While you could invest in microfiber materials to cut down on the need for anything more than water in cleaning your clothes and furniture, that is a rather expensive (and hard to take!) route. For now, you’re better off using cleaning materials that are environmentally friendly.

Some of those products include Seventh Generation cleaning materials, which are considered safe and sustainable, and Mrs. Meyers, which are largely chlorine and phosphate-free. Dr. Bronner’s soaps are also great for cleaning, well, just about anything! These substances are not any more difficult to use than the less environmentally friendly cleaning agents you typically see.

Of course, you can’t expect your staff to clean your entire building from top to bottom, much less to invest in the eco-friendly cleaning supplies and materials that you would need to do so. Fortunately, cleaning services like Classic Commercial Services are available to tackle just about every big cleaning task your business has in a safe, environmentally conscious manner.

Choosing the Right Service 

Some cleaning services treat cleaning your building like an exterminator might treat fumigation! The chemicals and other cleaning agents they use are so full of toxins and other caustic, unhealthy substances that you are barred from re-entry to your own home for days after the service has come and gone. This is an absolutely untenable state of affairs; neither your staff nor your customers should be subjected to the kind of unhealthy chemicals that your hotel is regularly bathed in by these irresponsible cleaning services.

That’s why Classic Commercial Services has gone to such lengths to ensure that the cleaning agents it uses are as safe, clean, and healthy as possible. While certain problems require quite a bit of cleaning effort, such as pet odor or years of dirt and stains, we always endeavor to use the safest, healthiest method of cleaning available.

We do this without passing on the extra cost of this to you – largely because it is already so affordable to take care of the environment! Our society is finally beginning to take seriously the threat posed to ourselves and our world by the chemicals we use every day. With time and a little bit of smart shopping decisions, we may be able to make up for past mistakes and live a healthier, cleaner life!