Green Living Cleaner has Rosy Results

"Your kitchen smells so clean!

"What is that beautiful smell?"

"It smells like grapefruit in here!"  

Get used to comments like these if you use FOR EVERY HOME's Green Living Multipurpose Cleaner and other products. I've always been a fan since their introduction in 2010, but last night when my daughter had the stomach flu, I gained an even deeper appreciation for Green Living Multipurpose Cleaner. 

Not only could I clean up the mess with the cleaner, it COMPLETELY neutralized the putrid stench.  Research has proven pleasant smells increase a person's mood and productivity.  While cleaning up vomit wasn't exactly a pleasant experience, the light citrus mixed with delicate mimosa-flower made it bearable.

I am a believer. 

It's no wonder Green Living Multipurpose Cleaner has topped FOR EVERY HOME's charts as the top-selling product.  Pink Mimosa flower-scented Green Living Cleaner, introduced November 2012, is expected to do just as well. Both 27-ounce cleaners contain only the safest of cleaning ingredients.

Cleaning and disinfecting without harmful chemicals!

Green Living Multipurpose Cleaner was developed when FOR EVERY HOME's founder, Becky Anderson, asked her FOR EVERY HOME development team to come up with a cleaning product that was safe and natural for her infant grandson, William.  William had been diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease (KD).

While the doctors couldn't say exactly what causes KD, they urged Anderson's daughter to remove all chemicals from William's environment and replace them with natural cleaning solutions. The resulting Green Living line of products have not only kept William's environment healthy and clean, they have added a new dimension of environmentally-friendly cleaning to thousands of homes.

FOR EVERY HOME's Green Living Multipurpose Cleaners are just that: multipurpose!  Uses include:

Counter: Spray on counter tops and let sit for a few minutes to clean and disinfect.  Wipe with a dry cloth.
Surfaces: Spray and wipe with a cloth.  For disinfecting, allow the cleaner to sit for a few minutes before wiping. Because of its natural citrus content, test a small amount of Green Living on an inconspicuous portion of stainless steel before cleaning.
Bathrooms: Sinks, counters, toilet, tub. 
Windows and Mirrors: The cleaner will foam more on mirrors than you are probably used to, but will provide a beautiful end result. (Not to mention the beautiful, fresh, non-irritating smell!)
Other Uses: Floors, walls, and cars are other applications for Green Living Cleaners, though the Green Living Dish Soap is ideal for mixing in a bucket of water.  I've even had customers say they clean their dogs with Green Living Multipurpose cleaner!  And why not? It's perfectly safe for people and their pets.

Ingredients:
FOR EVERY HOME's Green Living Multipurpose Cleaners have ingredients including coconut, lemon, lime, mandarin extracts and eucalyptus oil with disinfecting properties.  November also brought another addition to the Green Living Multipurpose Cleaner ingredient list: patented Odor Absorbing Molecules (OAM), making Green Living a cleaner/disinfectant AND air freshener. (Think: no more aerosol air freshener cans with toxic warnings!)

A 27-ounce bottle of Green Living Cleaner is $15 plus tax and shipping and can be purchased at http://www.stacie.foreveryhome.net. It comes in original Pomegranate Blossom scent or newly introduced Mimosa Flower.

Gifts: Small, Simple, and Necessary

It's easy to start to feel tired, worn-down, frustrated, maybe even down-right resentful at this time of year.  The pressure is put on us to buy, spend, and even borrow to make Christmas day the ultimate day of the year.  Christmas is a time to celebrate Christ; it is also a time when charity and love for our family, friends, and fellow travelers on this earth meets merchandizing. This time of year I always have a hard time figuring out how the two fit together.

On the one hand, shouldn't Christmas be simple?  What happened to the days my Grandmother talks of where each child got an orange--a rarity in Central Utah during the depression--and maybe a nickel? 

On the other hand, if the wise men themselves started the tradition of gifts at Christmas it couldn't be all bad, right?

I am a chronic over-thinker when it comes to Christmas.  My most notable calamity happened a few years ago when I decided that every gift I gave should be unique and perfect for the individual.  A fine idea when it comes to soccer tickets for my husband and the ideal garden book for the in-laws, but  I cramped half-way through the season, however, when I found myself  shopping for used, discontinued Tupperware for my mom and buying a Brian Regan CD for my eighty-five-year-old grandmother. 

There are some times when a generic sweater or fruit basket is not only acceptable, it is preferable.


This year, my six-year-old is the first one to have wrapped presents and put them under the tree. Her packages are about the size and shape of a Scrabble tile.  In a fit of creativity that passed once we left Michael's, we'd purchased resin tags to customize and make into luggage tags for her dad.  I got busy grading finals and she took matters into her own hands with scissors and bright green wrapping paper. She wrapped five the clear, uncustomized tags by herself. She very carefully fit the recipients' names across the tiny packages: no small task for unwieldy first grade print.


Four small packages sit under our tree.  The fifth has already been delivered to Ms. Hirst, her first grade teacher, who surely ooohed and ahhhed over the perhaps puzzling, but certainly heartfelt gift. I know first-hand what Ms. Hirst's reaction might have been because I was mom helper on one day when she received a gift from another student. She opened it at the first of the day, during "rug time," when the twenty-five six-year-olds sit on the floor around Ms. Hirst's chair.  She carefully unwrapped the present--a Santa door hanger--and smiled.  She said how excited she was to have it and how she would keep it at school and then at Christmas break she would take it home and hang it in her house.  She was sincere and the appreciation she emanated made me wish I'd been the one to give her the door hanger. 

I should learn from my sweet six-year-old and her teacher: to give--and receive--from the heart. They seem to have the spirit of the season figured out in first grade; they know it's about the excitement of giving, not what's in the tiny package, that counts.  And, that gifts at Christmas are important because they are the reflection of the greatest of all gifts.

What Can a Scent Do for You?

What can a scent do for you?