But not Clorox.

According to our sister site, Ecopreneurist, Clorox Company launched an app last week, that let’s you check the ingredients, right from your smart phone.

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You will be surprised to learn that all five options in my list are cheaper than you thought and you already have them in your kitchen, so why not try them next time you feel bad smell coming out of your fridge!

Before taking the first step though, I would like to remind you to place your food correctly in the fridge and to avoid storing food in open containers, so that the smells don’t blend. Once the smells from different foods combine foul-smelling chemicals are produced due to the low temperatures inside the fridge. Regularly check the expiration dates of your stored food and compost it.

Here are 5 natural ways to get rid of fridge odor 

1. Make sure your fridge is clean. If not, turn it off, take everything out while it is defrosting, store the food on the balcony if it is cold enough outside, or in a cooler. Clean all the shelves and drawers with a thick paste of baking soda and water. Not only will you remove food stains but odor as well.
2. You can then continue deodorizing your fridge with baking soda. Place an open container with baking soda inside and let it absorb the smells for at least 24 hours.
3. If baking soda doesn’t help, you can also distribute freshly ground coffee evenly on a plate and put it in the fridge for 24 hours. Coffee is known to absorb smells effectively. Instead of throwing the coffee away after the 24-hour stay in the fridge you can mix it with soil and use it as a fertilizer for your home flowers.
4. Another option you can consider is cutting an onion in half and placing it in the empty fridge overnight. Remove the onion and leave the door of the fridge open for a while.
5. To freshen the smell of your fridge (with or without using the onion) you can also soak a piece of cotton wool in vanilla and leave inside for 12 hours which will produce a lovely fresh and clean aroma.

With these tips, you can easily keep your kitchen and fridge clean and fresh for a minimum price. Just remember that a fridge smells only as bad as its contents. Take care to choose your food wisely and to store it appropriately and you will rarely need to deodorize.

Do you have your own green recipe for a fresh smelling fridge? Share it with us in the comments!

[Woman holding her nose image via Shutterstock]

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Over the coming months we will be adding green buying guides for several product types, from home improvements and garden, to personal care and cleaning products. Because our buying guides are comprised of green products that have been hand -chosen, -reviewed and -researched by Green Components editors, please be patient while we add to the database of buying guides. Thankfully, we’ve implemented a database interface that allows us to easily update the buying guides as new information becomes available.

Our goal is to provide up-to-date information and product comparison for green-minded shoppers. Each buying guide contains useful information about environmental impacts, personal safety notes, as well as featured, best value and greenest product recommendations. Each buying guide includes a product comparison chart listing the top green products, prices and our GC rating, as well as other criteria dependent on product type. We select products that are the greenest and most widely available. Our GC rating is determined by overall greeness and customer reviews from several leading consumer review sources.

PowerFilm portable solar chargers

PowerFilm offers a variety of really useful and downright cool green products including several portable solar chargers. The company sells both civilian and military grade solar chargers. One of the civilian solar chargers that recharges AA batteries, comes with USB ports, weighs around 5 ounces and costs $80. This company offers solar chargers for several different levels of power. These come in folding solar panels, rolling solar panels and custom solar panel cases.

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Originally developed for the military, PowerFilm’s waterproof solar charger can provide electricity for everything from laptops and cellphones to bilge pumps and car batteries. The cadmium-free solar cells are mounted on thin film, which sits on a soft plastic layer, allowing you to roll it up for easy packing. The high-end version can run a laptop for about a half hour for every hour of sunlight it collects. You’ll need a 12-volt cigarette-lighter adapter for portables, and recharging batteries requires an optional charging module. And if you need more power, you can daisy-chain multiple units for up to 20 amps of output.

iGo laptop and portable device chargers

OK, these are the ultimate must-have green product for the tech people out there. iGo’s portable laptop and notebook chargers come with automatic shutdown and recovery systems. This company sells a wide variety of chargers. Overall, using an iGo charger reduces power consumption by about 80%.

iGo manufactures a very wide assortment of chargers for everything from laptops and other portable devices to super-efficient battery chargers.The universal iGo portable chargers can also be used to charge any other kind of gadget, from iPods to cell phones and more. Most come with a side USB port for easy charging of USB devices. The laptop / notebook chargers come in different wattages.

Samsung OLED Display

Designed for mobiles, the Samsung OLED display screen will increase the life of your Li-Ion battery. This flexible OLED screen by Samsung might not be quite as cool as Sony’s, but is certainly another step toward the future of displays that consume nearly zero energy and are made from fewer materials. So keep an eye out for a production version of this display, hopefully coming sooner than later.

Carbon-free certified cell phone

Motorola, in partnership with carbonfund.org, has come out with the Moto W233 Renew cellular phone, which is constructed of polycarbonate from recycled post-consumer waste -water cooler bottles! This cell phone ws certified by carbonfund.org for its low carbon footprint in terms of materials, production and power used to run the phone.

The Moto W233 Renew uses 0.10 watts or less for standby mode, which reduces wasted energy by about 70%. Also, Motorola says that production of these phones took 20% less energy than their standard cell phones.

Motorola is also making several other changes to greening up their product line. Such as new cell phone chargers  that remind you to unplug it from the wall when you’re done charging the cell phone.

The company also has digital cordless phones that optimize the power output based on the distance the handset is from the base. The D10 and D11 are two such cordless phones, and both are made from 20% recycles materials.

Motorola also does a lot to participate in recycling. The company collected over 2,560 tones of electrical equipment and electronic waste for recycling in 2007, and participates in or manages recycling programs in 70 countries. Currently about 15% of Motorola’s electricity comes from renewable sources. The goal for 2010 is to increase this number to 20%, and to 30% by 2020.

Energizer Solar Recharger

The Energizer Solar Recharger is becoming available at more and more mainstream department stores and outlets.

These solar rechargers feature a USB port and can be used when in use of AC power or when AC power fails. At $49.99, the Energizer Solar Recharger allows you to juice up your gadgets wherever you are.

Sony Fleixble OLED Display

Featured at CES 2009, this new green product from Sony is sure to wow tech enthusiasts and those a green eye. While the flexible OLED display has yet to be incorporated into products for mass distribution, it’s only a matter of time until we’ll see this technology many places.

The prototype highlighted at CES 2009 measures 2.5-inches squared and is incredibly thin at a skinny 0.3 millimeters thick. The display is full-color with a resolution of 169×120 pixels and, as the name implies, it’s flexible! The extremely light use of materials, and cleaner materials at that, make this the most energy-efficient technology for small video display than anything else in the past.

MiniWIZ SolarBulb

This little light can run for 6 hours on one charge and costs only $25. This truly green product is made from recycled plastic bottles and output LEd lighting, powered by 0.18 watt solar cells.

One light is easily at least as bright as a typical desk or bedside lamp. At the price of $25 this is a very affordable way to bring green products into your daily routine.

Check out MiniWiz.com for a variety of great green products and thoughtful solutions. They carry mini solar panels, iPod chargers and much more.

First OLED PC from OQO

This OLED personal computer comes with an integrated and backlit QWERTY keyboard, 120GB, 2GB RAM, WWAN, Bluetooth, Windows XP Home, Pro or Vista. This little CC measures about 5.6 x 3.3 x 1 inches which makes it small enough to fit into any pocket or purse and requires very low amounts of power.

Designed for ultimate usability on the go, the model 2+ features an OLED display with an embedded touchscreen as well as an integrated backlit thumb keyboard and track stick.

Add the integrated Gobi™ Global Mobile Internet option to your OQO model 2+ and wirelessly connect to the Internet, even without a WiFi hotspot.

Check out the OQO site for a glance at their latest products.

6-in-1 OwiKits Solar Building Kit

OK, this one is more like an educational toy geared toward thinking about green energy. This 6-in-1 Solar Building Kit comes with an assortment of 21 parts that can be rearranged and snapped together to create an airboat, two planes, a puppy, a car and a windmill, and charged with a solar panel -all for about $20.

Solio Mono Solar Charger

Rounding out these tech-minded green products is another solar charger with a few extra frills. The Solio Mono Solar Charger is a futuristic-styled and streamlined charger that also comes with an LED light on attached cable. Plug it in and find a patch of sun!