If you can mix a cocktail, you can make your own healthy green cleaners!

Feb. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Budget- and health-conscious consumers want greener, healthier homes, but money, time and common misconceptions about green cleaning can hold them back.

By now consumers know conventional cleaners are loaded with toxic chemicals, but decades of effective branding makes them hard to resist. “Environmentally friendly” cleaners are showing up in stores, but they’re more expensive and a quick glance at the label shows most still contain preservatives and other un-pro-nounc-able-in-gre-dients. It’s enough to make even the most well-intentioned throw up their hands in frustration. Unfortunately, frustration doesn’t clean toilets. Or floors. Or bathtubs.

That’s why two Annapolis moms created Cathy Sparkle! Green Cleaning Cocktails. “We want to make life easier, cleaner and greener without adding any extra hassle or expense,” says co-owner Cathy.

Cathy Sparkle! shows consumers how fast and easy it is to make safe, green, healthy household cleaners for every room and surface. The company provides kits fully stocked with pure and powerful essential oils, all-natural soap, and eco-friendly, reusable bottles with easy-to-follow recipes printed right on them. No thinking required! Just mix in a few simple, familiar household ingredients and you’ve got an easier, greener, healthier way to clean.

By switching to Cathy Sparkle! consumers will save more than $100 in a typical first year and even more in following years. They’ll quickly discover that green cleaning doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. In fact, with all the resources Cathy Sparkle! put right at their fingertips they soon learn it's too easy not to do it. Users will save time and money, reduce waste, help the earth and help their families by instantly reducing toxins in the home. Consumers get the best of everything: healthier homes with easy-to-make cleaners that really work, all for less money.

Plus, when you mix a strong sense of humor (you have to smile at recipe names like “Sparkletini,” “Bum Runner,” and “On The Rocks”) with the aromatherapy benefits of pure essential oils, you realize “It is possible,” as Cathy says, “to make cleaning hour almost as fun as happy hour!”

Cathy Sparkle! is owned by Annapolis moms Cathy and Heather, who wanted greener homes without breaking their backs or their banks. Cathy is a super mom clean freak and Heather is a working mom of four boys looking for the easiest way to do anything. Cathy went to great lengths to research and absorb everything there is to know about creating a non-toxic, healthier home. During her hands-on research and experimentation, she realized that creating your own household cleaners can be an overwhelming process—one that people like Heather might normally give up on—unless you have everything you need in one easy place.

To make going green easier, cheaper and more convenient for everyone, the two joined forces, working hard to put together everything consumers need to make their own green cleaning products in fast, easy and fun kits. Above all they want to help give other families healthier homes. “I used to think I’d rather eat dirt than make my own home cleaning products,” says Heather, “but now I know it’s so ridiculously easy, it would be crazy not to do it. Plus, if you absolutely have to clean, you might as well feel good about doing it.”

Learn more about the Cathy Sparkle green cleaning philosophy at http://www.cathysparkle.com.

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Cathy Sparkle! makes it fast & fun to make your own safer healthier green cleaners by providing kits stocked with essential oils, natural soap, and reusable formula bottles with easy-to-follow recipes right on them. Now going green is ridiculously easy!