Green Friendly Ice Melt Products

While standard rock salt may be the stand by for melting the winter ice, if you look on the labels you'll see warnings, and these warnings will be about how the salt is potentially hazardous to you, your children, pets, and the planet.

For traction on ice that still keeps you on the green friendly side of things, you can use kitty litter that is biodegradable or sand. However, sometimes this isn't enough and you have to get the ice to go away. That's when you can use one of these green friendly ice melt products.

SafePaw is 100 percent salt free and contains melting agents that are not harmful to your children, pets, or the planet. Available at a number of stores throughout the cold regions of the country this is the perfect non-harmful ice melt product. To make a good product great, the makers of SafePaw recently added a traction agent that will help you get a good grip while the ice is still melting.

Green Scapes Ice Melt is another product that is salt free and even contains ingredients to help stave off corrosion. This green friendly product will melt ice in weather as cold as 10F/-12C and will not harm your lawn, your pets, or your children. This product can be found at popular stores such as Ace Hardware.

Fire Ice Melt Pellets is also an alternative to rock salt and will melt snow and ice just as fast but won't harm the environment or your family in the process. This product is available online at interstateproducts.com and they have a variety of other green friendly ice melt products for commercial use as well.

GreenIceMelt.com is a website that is dedicated to selling a huge variety of green friendly ice melt products for both residential and commercial customers. Their products vary in ingredients and they have both granular products as well as liquid products. Their website is filled with tons of information and they seem to have a product for any size job and budget.

While it may not seem that natural salt would be harmful, it is. Salt mixed with melted ice gives you very corrosive salt water. Salt will also kill vegetation.

There is simply no need to use corrosive and dangerous rock salt when there is such a great variety of green friendly ice melt products available on the market.