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Healthy Home Part 1

The Real Dirt on Clean!

I was at the store a few days ago. I went down the cleaning isle to get a new sponge. I glance over and see this product!

This inspired me for this post! Do we really need to be “cleaning” our homes with products that we should be wearing a respirator????

No that’s for sure. Our homes are supposed to be the safest place. But in reality our homes are more toxic.

You know that great feeling after you finish cleaning your house?

Feels great doesn’t it!? A real sense of accomplishment.  Sorry to spoil it, but you may have just made your home dirtier.

What?? 

Think of it this way. You wouldn’t let your kids play with toxic chemicals, so why would you let the baby crawl over a floor that had just been wiped with them? That’s much more dangerous than the split milk that was just there.

How dangerous? Take a look at some Facts!

• 81,000 Chemicals have been registered with the U.S EPA in the past 20 years, and fewer than 20% have been tested for toxicity!

• Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home.
218,316 reported poison exposures in 2005 were from household cleaning products.
• 90% of our time is spent indoors. EPA reports that air pollutants is up to 5 times higher inside than outside.
• A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning soap scum off shower walls could inhale 3 times the “acute one-hour exposure limit” for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
• Common cleaners give off fumes that can potentially increase the risk of kids developing asthma, the most common chronic childhood disease.
• 1 in 13 school-aged children has asthma. Rates in children under five have increased more than 160% from 1980 – 1994.
• If your home is anything like the average U.S. home, you generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year (the EPA designates toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach as hazardous waste).

"We are conducting a vast toxicologic experiment in our society, in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subject." ~Dr. Herbert Needleman Pediatrician and Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 

To find out what’s lurking on your shelves, go to the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine Household Products Database http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/ .You can search almost any brand of cleaner you use, find out what’s in it, and uncover its links to health effects. Or search
by chemical ingredients (see list below for some examples) and discover what brands contain it.
 
The information may shock you. (Click on each ingredient and it will bring you to the Health Library mentioned above) Chemical ingredients to look out for:

·       Ammonia

·       Butyl Cellosolve (2-Butoxyethanol)

·       Formaldehyde

·       Hydrochloric Acid

·       Naphtha

·       Perchloroethylene

·       Petroleum Distillates

·       Propylene Glycol

·       Sodium Hydroxide (lye)

·       Bleach Sodium (Hypochlorite)

·       Sodium Lauryl Sulfate

·       Sulfuric Acid

·       Trichloroethane

I typed in Formaldehyde I was shocked what products had this ingredients!! Like baby soap!!! Yes baby soap crazy right?!?!


You shouldn’t have to worry if cleaning the shower then cleaning the mirrors with another product will have a chemical reaction. Or I better not light a candle for a few hours after cleaning because it might set the bathroom on fire.  

What's under your sink? 

 This is just some of what I used to have under my sink before we made the switch over to safe green cleaners. Yes, I even made homemade cleaners BUT you know what I found out they were not safe either!!!=/

Chlorine Bleach: is the chemical most frequently involved in household poisonings in the U.S

Degreasers: May conatin petroleum distillates, which can damage lung tissues and dissolve fatty tissue around nerve cells.

Glass Cleaners : May contain ammonia. Ammonia fumes can irritate the skin, eyes, and respiratory system.

Oven Cleaners: Can be among the most dangerous cleaning products ad can cause severe damage to eyes, skin, mouth, and throat

Toilet Bowl Cleaners: Can be extremely dangerous cleaning products and can be harmful if inhaled-and fatal is swallowed.  
 


 Our homes should be the safest places. So what should we do? 

3 simple ways to Get Clean
1. Educate yourself about what you bring into your home at: http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/
2. Put on the gloves and get rid of the nasty stuff in your home. Contact your local waste collection service has guidelines for proper household hazardous waste disposal, as well as collection sites for things like paint, batteries, and cleaners. Whatever you do, please don’t toss this stuff in the garbage.
3. Welcome healthy into your home. Commit to carefully considering everything that crosses your doorstep. Here are some safe, healthy things to have in your home:
• Cleaners that are truly cleaner. Get Clean offers product choices that are: nontoxic, natural, biodegradable, concentrated, and hypoallergenic.   To learn more, please visit my shop.
• Fresh air. Open your windows to reduce indoor air pollution.
• Essential oils. Use these instead of air fresheners.
• Plants. Besides being nice to look at, they can absorb harmful gases and help clean the air.

For more than 50 years, Shaklee has created products that improve the health of people and the planet.

In 1960, Shaklee introduced Basic H, one of the 1st biodegradable, nontoxic cleaners.

Basic H was selected as an official Earth day product. 
 

Thanks for sticking through to the end of this long blog post! Let me know if you would like more info on what you can do to have a healthier home safe place to be! 

Kristin