Miniml Nutty Almond Eco Floor Cleaner
Miniml Nutty Almond Eco Floor Cleaner is the ideal swap to clean your hard floors. Made with biodegradable ingredients (including Yorkshire water – even scents are naturally derived), this is vegan-friendly and not tested on animals, and sold in bottles that you can send back to be refilled!
Use with a plastic-free mop or use a bucket filter if using a microfiber mop, to stop leaching microplastics (collect and securely bin them, to avoid them washing away at landfill).
Although listed as pet-friendly, always thoroughly rinse and dry floors, before allowing pet paws back in!
If buying other items in the range, avoid essential oils for pregnancy/nursing and near babies/pets. Citrus oils are toxic to pets (even if rinsed and dried, residue could be licked from paws). For these homes, just clean with a mix of water and baking soda and white vinegar.
This floor cleaner is concentrated, so a little goes a long way. At end of use, you can get the bottle refilled at stores that sell it, or use the QR code to send off empty bottles for refilling, and return.
The starter bottle is 750ml, and therefill bottles give 200 uses!
The floor cleaner is suitable for all washable surfaces, floors, tiles and painted wood. To use, just add 1 to 2 capfuls per 5L bucket of warm water, then rinse and dry. For stubborn stains, use undiluted, then wash with a soft wet cloth. And again rinse and dry thoroughly.
Miniml is a fresh new eco cleaning brand, started by two young entrepreneurs, who struggled to find household products that did not irritate the co-founder’s sensitive skin. So they decided to create something better, mixing formulas in the garage, until they came up with products that worked.
Still based in its own factory in Yorkshire (creating local jobs), the range is sold nationwide to shops, hotels and restaurants (there is no minimum orders on business accounts).
There are discounts for regular subscriptions, and students.
For toxic cleaning/laundry products, you can recycle empty bottles with kerbside collections. For bottles with product, dispose of them at your council’s hazardous waste department.
Don’t Sweep Up Cute Spiders!
House spiders in England won’t do any harm, and eat up flies.
- To prevent spiders, use biodegradable non-scented cleaners and vacuum regularly.
- Most have never been outside, so leave them be or gently cover with a cup, slide a thin card underneath and place in an unused cupboard.
- Carefully move the egg sacs too. Use a spoon or small jar to carefully slide under the egg sac, gently guiding the mother.
- British Arachnological Society says spiders don’t come up through plugholes, so need help to escape. Place a towel on the bath edge so your spider friend can climb out (leave one over the edge at night, in case spiders fall in). Or move as above, to a cupboard.
