Green product Saturday: Toilet cleaner

Toilet bowl cleaner
Earth Friendly Products' Toilet Kleener
You don't often hear anyone waxing poetic about their toilet-bowl cleaner.
Cleaning the toilet is just not an experience that inspires excitement.
Toilet Kleener isn't going to change that. But it is going to make the deed less gross and more green.
This puppy is from the maker of the Ecos line of cleaning products, something a little better known to green consumers. Earth Friendly Products is based in Winnetka.
And it's good. Really
It's big ingredient is cedar oil. Lysol's toilet bowl cleaner on the other hand uses hydrochloric acid and Alkyl (C12-C18) dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride according to the Household Products Database.
Acid or cedar oil? Hmm, which one do I want to spend time with? (You Lysol fans who swear you need to disinfect your toilet: How often do you lick it that you need every single bit of germs off of the inside of the bowl?)
It smells great. It clings better than any product I've ever used and it really does the job. Plus, my husband walks into the bathroom and knows the toilet's clean because of the cedar smell, not because of the chemical scent.
On the web site, it's $3.49 for a 24 ounce bottle. I used to buy the 99 cent brands, so this is a jump. But this smells great, works well, lasts long (the cling factor means you need less) and is the right thing for the earth. Plus, you don't have to live in fear of a child getting ahold of your acid-based cleaner. (Still, don't feed this to kids. I'm just saying it's not going to eat the skin off of their hands.) We have a septic tank, so I feel better about using this there too. I don't want to be flushing acid that's going to upset the balance of good and evil in the septic tank.
What is Earth Friendly Products doing? They say their products are plant-based, all-natural, made from replenishable resources, family-owned and -operated, made in the U.S.A. and ethical. Some of that isn't provable, but when was the last time you heard a company saying it was ethical before they've been accused of anything?