House Cleaning Tips - Keep Within Reach Of Children by Nick Vassilev
One of the wonderful things about natural cleaners is that they are safe for children to use. Most of the ingredients used to make these home-made cleaning products don�t need warnings on the label to store out of reach of children and to use the product in an adequately ventilated area; neither does it need the number of the local poisons centre in case of swallowing. And this has another advantage: if the product is child-safe, you can encourage children to help with the cleaning with minimal risk to small systems (and young, delicate skin).

The same applies to most organic pest control methods for the garden.

However, it is important here to add that essential oils should always be kept out of the reach of children and that they should not be taken internally. While children can certainly use natural house cleaning products made with essential oils, any child under the age of eight sho ... Read more »