HEALTHY HOME   We all need to clean our homes at some point!  It may be time to clean your cleaners!  Any cleaning substance you use ends up in the air, the water or the soil and, ultimately, inside your body.  It seems there are different cleaners for ever room and for every need.  You’d think there were thousands of variations of dirt in your house.   It might be time to minimize your use of toxic products in your home.

Did you know: ·        Many household products contain pesticides and toxic ingredients that can be harmful to humans, animals, or the environment. Even so, we use these products to clean or maintain our home. Or they are useful because they control disease-causing organisms, insects, weeds, or other pests.  ·        The average home generates over 25 pounds of toxic, hazardous waste each year.  Much of this waste can be attributed to household cleaning products. ·        90% of poisonings occur in the home.   Dr. Joyce Woods, in her book Create a Safe & Healthy Home, shares some statistics about our greatest exposure to chemicals being right in our own home: More than 72,000 synthetic chemicals have been produced since WWII. Less than 2% of synthetic chemicals in wide spread use have ever been tested for toxicity, birth defects or their mutagenic or carcinogenic effects. The average home today contains 62 toxic chemicals, more than a chemistry lab at the turn of the century. Today, children have chemical exposures from birth that their parents didn’t have until they were adults.  ·        “Developing cells in children’s bodies are more susceptible to damage than adult cells that have completed development, especially for the Central Nervous System.” According to Herbert Needleman, MD in his book Raising Children Toxic Free ·        Until a child is approximately 13 months of age, they have virtually no ability to fight the biological and neurological effects of toxic chemicals.  Raising Children Toxic Free Needleman, M.D. and Landrigan, M.D.   ·        The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that 150 chemicals that are commonly found in the home have been linked to allergies, birth defects and psychological abnormalities. Chemicals are linked to so many health problems and are right under your nose:  under your sink, in your shower, and all throughout the house.  To make matters worse most people today spend 90% of their time indoors.  What Cleaners are you using?

They wouldn’t sell it if it wasn’t safe…would they?  (click the question mark for more....)

You Can't Trust Labels   From the transcript of Bill Moyer’s Show - Aired: May 10, 2002 “When it’s in full-gear, the National Children’s Study will cost $50 million dollars a year — if Congress approves it. Without conclusive science, it’s a constant fight to protect children’s health. A new law to slash diesel pollution from trucks and buses by 95% could decrease asthma and cancer risk ... it’s being challenged by the petroleum industry. Congress is considering legislation to require schools to use safer pest controls. The law was killed in committee last Fall, and again this Spring. And while the Food Quality Protection Act has strictly limited the use of three toxic pesticides.., there’s no law that requires testing of thousands of new chemicals for effects on the developing brain. 200,000 chemicals are in use commercially today with another 1000 being introduced each year. Only a few of these chemicals, about 72, are adequately tested to determine their effects to our lives and the life of our environment. What about the other 932 chemicals that are on the market and in the products that consumers use everyday, most (932) have never been tested. Toxic chemicals were introduced into our environments 50 years ago, just after World War II. They were originally designed to enhance our lifestyles, now we know many are not enhancing our lives but threatening them. What everyday products do you use?

What can you do to reduce your risks?   By eliminating or reducing the use of toxic chemicals in your home you can make a significant difference in your life and the life of your family. How do you do this? Educate yourself of what are in the products you are using to clean your house, your car and your children. Read the labels and contact the company for a complete list of ingredients (Not all ingredients have to be listed on the label!). Buy organic products or "natural" products and limit your usage of products that may contain toxins.  Limit your exposure to plastic products. Encourage others to take these precautions also.

Compare our Cleaners to Theirs…..   Our cleaning products are biodegradable, which means they break down easily instead of hanging out in the ground for hundreds of years.  They also have no phosphates, borates, nitrates, or chemicals that are harmful to your family, pets or the environment.  They are super concentrated so you add the water and we all can subtract waste:   Less weight to ship, less to use, and less to throw away.     Cleaners that are Good for the Environment    When you purchase our Cleaning Starter Kit instead of ready-to-use products, you're helping reduce over 100 pounds of packaging waste from landfills and eliminating 248 pounds of greenhouse gases – this is the environmental equivalent of planting 10 trees.  Now you don’t have to sacrifice the earth or your health to get your house cleaned.    And Cleaners that are Good for your Wallet  The Cleaning Starter Kit replaces 830 bottles or boxes of conventional ready-to-use cleaning products you use in your house, kitchen and laundry - over $3400 of equivalent cleaning power.

Our Cleaning Starter Kit contains the equivalent cleaning power of:* 60 Bottles of Fantastik Multi-Purpose Cleaner, 32 oz. 32 Bottles of Mop & Glo Triple Action Floor Shine Cleaner, 32 oz. 728 Bottles of Windex Original Formula, 26 oz. 1 Bottle of Woolite Original Fabric Wash, 50 oz. 1 Container of Clorox  Wipes, 35 wipes 1 Bottle of Soft Scrub Grease Cutting Lemon Cleanser, 26 oz. 2.5 Boxes of Cascade RegularPowder Auto Dish Detergent, 45 oz. 2 Boxes of Tide Original Liquid Detergent, 50 oz. 3 Bottles of Down Fabric Softener, 64 oz. 1 Box of Bounce Fresh Linen Scent Fabric Softener Sheets, 80 sheets  *Based upon a comparison of label usage directions. The comparison was conducted on July 10, 2006 and is valid only for the named products marketed at that time. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.   Get started now ... and go clean that house!

How to eliminate toxins from the home Listen to a 20 minute discussion covering: Safe, cost effective and effective cleaning solutions. Replacing your toxic cleaners. The history of Soy  based, Earth Day cleaner Would you use your current cleaners to wash your produce? Did you know Lysol was flammable & does it really work the way you think it does? And much more…. When you are finished listening, be sure to click the back button.    Still not convinced: More interesting articles More websites