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My Eco Friendly Bathroom Cleaner

My shower cleaning routine used to be the same as many of yours: Tilex Bathroom Cleaner for soap scum, and Tilex Mold & Mildew (or some other brand) for deep cleaning.

As much as I like the whole "spray and walk away" thing, the fumes from my bathroom sprays bothered me so bad that cleaning my bathroom was like launching some kind of scorched earth attack. I would start spraying the area furthest from the door, backing my way closer to the exit, eventually having to evacuate when the fumes started to suffocate me, my eyes started to burn, and my head started to hurt. The bleach in the Tilex did me in every time.

Then after cleaning, I would have to avoid the bathroom for the rest of the day because the residual fumes where so bad. Needless to say, this was not gonna work for me. So the hunt for an alternative bathroom cleaner was on.

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EVA Shower Curtain for an Eco Friendly Bathroom

Have you experienced "new shower curtain smell"? That plasticky, overpowering odor that nearly gives you a headache? That's the smell of polyvinyl chloride (aka PVC) releasing toxic gases into the air -- and getting all up in your bathroom.

A few years ago, I got fed up with the fumes and looked for an alternative. The more I thought about it, the crazier it seemed that I was basically taking a steam bath in chemicals. I could barely stand the smell long enough to take a shower. Then I found odorless EVA shower curtains [Amazon], and I've been buying them ever since.

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