Using Bleach to Get Rid of Mold

Don't do it! Bleach is a terrible substance. It's bad for your skin, bad for your lungs, bad for your pets, and bad for the environment. Not only that, but it can react with acids we use on a daily basis, releasing noxious gasses. If you ask me, vinegar should be the staple of everyone's cleaning solutions. It's biodegradable, it kills just as many bacteria as bleach, it doesn't leave a nasty residue, and it's edible. You can't kill a pet with vinegar.

Improving Air Quality to Get Rid of Mold

People will tell you that the best way to get rid of mold is to use an ionizing air purifier to help pull the pollutants and mold spores out of the air. Well, they're half right. An air purifier isn't a bad idea for preventing mold growth, but those ionized air filters can cause health problems if they're not constructed properly. Sometimes if an ionizing air filter isn't built right, it will spit out ozone which, scientists will tell you, is good for the atmosphere and bad for your lungs. Serious complications can arise if you're using the wrong air purifier. Choose wisely and make sure you buy from a reputable company.

Seventh Generation Bathroom Cleaner doesn't use acid to kill mold and remove soap scum. Instead they use hydrogen peroxide and citrus oils to help kill germs and mold, and pick up soap scum and other bathroom stains. I wouldn't use this as a substitute for a shower spray treatment, but it's certainly strong enough to solve your mold problems on random bits of tile, floorboarding, linoleum, and such.

Vinegar. Good old vinegar, otherwise known as acetic acid, is the way to go. You can't go wrong with this stuff. Sure it smells kind of strong when you use it, but that smell goes away in no time, leaving a bacteria-free, mold-free, mildew-free, water stain-free surface behind. It's perfectly natural, biodegradable, and is comparable to dirty in terms of cost.

Are you sniffling and sneezing during the winter and you don't know why? It could be that you have an allergy to certain molds. Once in a while a mold problem in the home, which can be controlled, is the cause of allergies —kind of like dust. Perhaps you're not suffering from mold allergies, but you're looking at your bathroom wondering how it turned into a science project so quickly? During the winter months people have one of two problems: either the air in their home is too dry and it's causing problems, or the air in their home is too moist, and is causing mold to grow. During the summer months we have problems with excessive mold growth because of a higher relative humidity. In this article I'll talk about how to clean mold, how to get rid of mold, and how to keep your home mold-free.

How to Clean and Control Mold

First, let's start with how to clean mold from your bathroom, where mold grows like a teenager on steroids. We use vinegar. It's good stuff. You'll want to spray vinegar in all the places where mold grows most easily. This includes places like the sealing underneath your faucets, on your shower curtains, in the grout of your tile floor, or near the edges of the linoleum, if that's what you have for flooring. I mop our bathroom floor with vinegar often.