We all like for things to be clean and healthy, right?  Unfortunately, clean often isn’t healthy.  Indoor air is considerably more toxic than outdoor air, in large part as a result of all of the chemicals we bring into our homes – like cleaning products.  (That “clean” smell?  It’s really the smell of chemicals, and if you can smell them, you’re inhaling them.)  So what if you could clean with just water and get your house just as clean?

You can!  That’s what I love about Norwex’s signature product, the Envirocloth, which we use and love.  I’d like to tell you about it and a couple other of my favorite products from Norwex – the ones that were primarily responsible for causing me to (finally!) sign up with them. [UPDATE: I’m not longer selling, although I do still use my Norwex products regularly.  The link is to my mom’s site.]

{Side note: If you want to sign up with them, too, today is THE LAST DAY to sign up and get your kit for only the $5 shipping.  It’s a pretty sweet deal.}

The Envirocloth

The Envirocloth is the flagship product, and hands-down my favorite.  I don’t know anyone who couldn’t benefit from at least having an Envirocloth (or a few), even if you don’t use anything else we offer.  This is a high-quality microfiber cloth, with embedded microsilver so it disinfects itself.  It’s hemmed, so the edges don’t fray.  It has a high “thread count” (or however you’d put that, with cleaning materials), so it not only picks up a lot, but it doesn’t have that icky “velcroed to your hands” feel that cheap microfiber has.

And it picks up nearly everything without a lot of need to scrub, go over the same area multiple times, etc.  I think it picks up 99% of bacteria, etc.?  Then just rinse it out and let it dry, and the silver is hard at work killing anything that was left inside the cloth.

My daughters even love these things.  (“This would be so much easier with a Norwex cloth.” “That’s okay [that I spilled my hot chocolate all over myself], there’s a Norwex cloth in the car [or Mom’s purse]”  They really say these things!  Unprompted!)

The Spirisponge

This is my second-favorite item.  I’ve been using this every day to wash my dishes – the same one, for like…8 months?  A year?  It’s been a long time!  The inside is a sponge; the outside is covered with what looks like steel wool.  But it’s really polyester, so it doesn’t scratch my dishes. 🙂  I love that I can use it on stainless steel and nonstick alike.

Seriously, people, the same one.  And it’s just now getting worn out.

Other Favorites

A few other favorite items are the fruit and veggie cloth (we use this very regularly, too) – it’s a scrubbie cloth for washing fruits and vegetables – the kitchen scrub cloth (is rougher/has more scrubbing power than the Envirocloths, but honestly doesn’t get nearly as much use as some of the other products because we don’t need to up the scrubbing power very often), and the window cloth (which dries/polishes the windows after you clean them with an Envirocloth).

Recap

We have used our Envirocloths on kitchen counters and dining room tables; bathroom counters, sinks, and toilets (we usually use something stronger for the sink – well, and the inside of the toilet); walls; doors; refrigerator doors; hardwood floors; clothing; computer keyboards…because you use them dampened only with water, there are very few things they can damage.  (They’re not to be used on glass with UV coating applied because they clean well enough to clean that coating right off!  Apart from that, if you can use a little bit of water on it, you can probably use an Envirocloth on it.)

(By the way, there are some cleaning “substances” so you have nontoxic options for tougher messes.  For instance, there’s an oven cleaner.  But most things will clean with just water and the cloths/scrubbers.)

If you’ve never ordered before, you might want to start with the household package. 🙂 )  The travel cloths are good for carrying in purses and diaper bags.

And if you have any questions or see another product you’d like to know more about, drop me a line.

This post is being shared at Works for Me Wednesday.