Healthy Cleaning Tips that you Need to Know
Do you ever walk down the cleaning isle of your grocery store and leave feeling short of breath and sometimes even dizzy? Well, that happens for a reason. And that's in a big grocery store. Imagine the damage these cleaning products can do in the confines of your home. A little concerned? Surprised? Then read on!
- There are more than 3 million poisonings every year
- Household cleaners are the #1 cause of poisonings in children
- Regular shampoos often contain formaldehyde as a preservative
- Since 1980 asthma has increased by 600%
- Common household products have been identified as triggers of asthma
- A 15-year study found that women who worked at home had a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who had jobs outside the home
- Manufacturers ARE NOT required to list the exact ingredients on a label
- Chemical names are often disguised by using "trade names", so you may not recognize the chemical for what it truly is
- A women's fertility has also been negatively affected by the increase use of chemicals. In 1934 only 21 cases of endometriosis existed in the entire world. Today over 5 million women have this condition, which causes infertility in the US alone.
What Can You Do?
- Be Informed HealthyCleaningTips.com offers a wide range of information and resources about the toxins to be found in traditional cleaning products and information about alternatives. See our links section for additional resources.
- Become a Student of Non Toxic Cleaning You and your family’s well-being and wellness depends on it. There are recipes and resource links for healthy cleaning products and/or green cleaning products on HealthyCleaningTips.com The information is free, the advice is free so browse our website regularly and fully. You can subscribe to our newsletter for more tips, advice, resources and recommendations for products to make your home a healthy home.
Disclaimer: This website is not intended to be an exhaustive resource or definitive guide to hazardous products listed herein or elsewhere. Please read product labels carefully and act accordingly. The information provided about hazardous products comes from a program called:
"Hazardous Products in the Home" was created by EPA Region 5 and Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University. The majority of the information contained in the following sections of the program comes from:
• Household Hazardous Waste Project. 1989. "Hazardous Products Around the Home." University of Missouri Extension.
• Vogel, Michael P. 1993. "Solid Waste Management". Montana State University.
See this link for more information: www.purdue.edu/envirosoft/housewaste/src/open.htm
Why Should You Worry about Toxic Household Chemicals?
- According to the EPA, most homes have airborne concentrations of hazardous chemicals that are two to five times higher indoors than outdoors
- According to the EPA, toxic chemicals found in the home are three times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor airborne pollutants
- The Consumer product Safety Commission connects 150 chemicals commonly found in our homes to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological disorders
- The National Cancer Institute has a list of twenty known carcinogens and over 2,200 chemicals that are probable carcinogens. Many of these chemicals are in the cleaners and personal care products you buy at your local grocery store
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