yucky feeling floors

I have this problem too. an environmentally safe cleaner is Simple Green. It is non-caustic if your little bundle of joy does give the floor a lick no harm. Otherwise, you should check at the local health food store or many grocery stores now have health food sections that sell safe environmentally friendly cleaners. You are right in not using cleaners not only because of your son but many cleaners are toxic, containing ingredients that can cause skin cancer. Many children that develop cancer at a skin site have had frequent exposure to bleaches, lysol, and other toxic home cleaners that parents use thining that they are protecting them from germs and vruses which ends up causing asthma, allergies and of course cancer. Worse case, the hot steam cleaners, you know the onles that puff hot steam on a surface and you wipe clean with a towel not only disinfect but remove scum.

If you apply bleach, and then use a normal floor cleaning solution, how about that? That's what I did when I moved house then and it worked fine. You need to work your son, get a pacifier for him and teach him to bite on that instead of licking the floor.

I would be using a cleaner to kill the germs so as your son won't get sick. Tiles are generally slippery anyway especially when wet. I would be prone to wash with bleach diluted water then go over it again with just pain Hot water at least you have killed the germs lurking first and then gone over again to wash away some of the chemicals.

I use hot water and a bit of white vinegar. It will clean the floor and cut down on the wax build up you seem to have.