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There was a time when the majority of cleaning supplies sold at your local retailer were toxic smelling and colored lurid shades of blue.  If you didn’t have to squint and breathe through your nose while cleaning your tub with one of these products, you probably thought the stuff in the bottle wasn’t doing the job.  Now, even Clorox has jumped on the green cleaning bandwagon with a line called Clorox Green Works that claims to be easier on the environment and less toxic to you.  There are quite a few brands, Seventh Generation, being one of the first early leaders, who have championed green cleaning supplies.  But the standouts among all these seems to be the Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day brand.   With the retro looking labels making them look like something your grandmother might have used, and the pleasantly scented solutions, it’s not hard to see why.

Mrs. Meyer’s has gained a bit of a cult following.  Reviewers say the products (despite being green and refreshingly free of the usual array of toxins found in other cleaning products) actually make people want to clean MORE.   “Addictive!” says one reviewer.  “I’ll never go back to those awful products I was using before!” says another.  One reviewer claims that the Lemon Verbena scented line, “…makes cleaning more fun.”  That’s right, fun.  Of the Honeysuckle Mrs. Meyer’s Cleaner, someone writes:  “I love putting some water in the sink, adding a little bit of the All-Purpose Cleaner and going to town!”

So, are these people crazy or just happy to finally have an alternative to the scary looking cleaning products of the past?  Is it simply the fact that the products clean and deoderize well?  Or is it the smell?  Several people say the smell of some of the Mrs. Meyer’s products bring back memories of childhood – the Honeysuckle product line reminding one woman of the vine outside her window.  Do you have any Mrs. Meyer’s products in your house and if so are they as incredible as the reviews suggest?  Oh and if you are a Mrs. Meyer’s groupie, check out their limited edition Peppermint cleaning line that smells like candy canes – just in time for the holidays.