Toxins in Your Home

Toxins In Your Home

Cleaning your house can make you sick!  An EPA report found that household cleaners are three times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor pollutants!  And “trusted” brands are not necessarily trustworthy.  Lysol Spray, Ajax Cleaner and Crest Tarter Control all topped the Cancer Prevention Coalition’s “Dirty Dozen” list of products with known carcinogens. 

 Here is an article that will show you just how toxic food packaging and some of the things we use on day to day basis are-

  #The Pollution In Newborns.

 What can we do?  Buy food that doesn’t need packaging, as much as possible.  A banana or avocado already come in a perfect package; the skin!  Take bags with you to the store, just like all of us old hippies were doing in the seventies!  Did you know that San Francisco has just banned any plastic shopping bags that are not recycled?  Here is a link to a company offering shopping bags-  EnviroSax. 

 Get rid of Teflon!!!  Not convinced yet?  Read this!-  Dangers of Teflon

 Around the house there are many products you can use to clean with that are just as effective as the stronger toxic products. Here is a list of the cleanest ones- 

 Automatic Dish Detergents-  Life Tree Seventh Generation  (available at PUBLIX!)

  All-purpose Cleaners – Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Pure Castile Soap,  Seventh Generation

 Carpet Cleaners-  Granny’s Old Fashioned Products,   Infinity Heavenly Horsetail liquid detergents

 Floor Cleaners – Infinity Heavenly Horsetail,  Life Tree Home Soap , Murphy Oil Soap,  Sodasan All-purpose Cleaner

 Disinfectants – Power Herbal Disinfectant and Deodorizer

 Bleach- Seventh Generation

 Hand Dish-washing Soap-  Ecover

 Laundry Products – Earth Friendly Products,  Ecover , Life Tree,  Seventh Generation

My Personal Favorites:

Soapnuts

Seventh Generation Laundry Soap

Citri Solv Dishwashing Liquid

Citri Solv Concentrated Cleaner (make a batch in a spray bottle)

Baking Soda for Oven Cleaner

Microfiber cloths for cleaning– you can use them for cleaning mirrors and for dusting with NO cleaner. They really work!  I get mine at Target.

Dr Bonners Hemp or Lavender Soap for bathing.

 I make my own facial cleaner, toners and moisturizers.  They are available for sale– I have been making them for about three years, they are so clean you can eat them, my daughters and clients LOVE them!  Buy them here– Millie’s Skin Care Products.  Or you can buy the recipe for my cleaner and toner– see info on the same page.