Unfortunately, I learned about the dangerous effects of cleaning products many years ago strictly from personal experience.  I even wonder today, had the effects of the cleaners not been so harmful and not  affected my  family’s lives so much, would I have become” The Drum Major” of “The Green Cleaners Band” of Products.  I am thankful that I figured out the cause of my son’s severe asthma and allergies and I believe all of us are much healthier today because I made a drastic change in our home environment when I switched to safe, green, non-polluting cleaners made from things like corn, coconut and soy.

Green Cleaners are assumed not to work as well as the most popular, advertised chemical counter-parts.  For some odd reason, people think that if they have a complicated chemical name, it must be good.  However, think about this, if these  hard to read cleaners came with warnings, then  How safe are they?  If the product is safe for you to use, then it  won’t harm the environment.  Plus the products that were 3rd party tested were proven to no only work better, but the cost effectiveness is almost unbelievable.  What if I told you a one pint concentrate of cleaner makes bottles of a window cleaner.  Think of the land-fills saved, prescious fuel saved to transport all over the nation, and most of all think of the lungs saved. This is what I use.   Under Web-links on the left side of this blog, click on “Organic, Safe cleaners” and you will be directed to the products I have found to #1 be the most safe, #2, most effective, #3 cost savings.

 Sterling labs proved through  a 3rd party study that organic out performs other products and that organic out performs toxic cleaners and sometimes dramatically out performs them as well,     (who would have thought.)  Better living through chemistry has been the American cleaning mantra for 50+yrs.

 Conventional laundry products have many of the same chemical cleaners as houshold cleaners: they carry the same kinds of dangers like phenols & bleach to name a few.  These products cause long term environmental problems and eventually affect our rivers and streams yet they also enter our bodies in a similar way with contact, using your skin.  Not to mention the fumes and fragrances which over time have overloaded  our sensories that you just don’t smell ANYTHING anymore. 

Those smells that are artificial are not good for us.  Clean has no smell not lemon, not pine fresh, not forest breeze.  Most of the chemicals used to create these smells we have grown to love are considered “neuro-toxins:  Yes they effect the brain and nervous system,

Think about this, You use the towels and wear the underwear that has been washed in ;  a -terpineol, which  irritates mucus membraines and damages the central nervous system, and  Benzyl acetate  which effects the eyes and the respiratory system.

Fabric softener irritates the eyes and respiratory system.  The petroleum based stuff stays in the fabric and can cause irritated mucus membranes and damages  the central nervouse system.  Not to mention the toxic chemicals rubbing on your skin.  So you use dryer sheets you say! Except they are filling up land fills and their smell is also very offensive to some.  I like to refer to the fabric softener on the market as the alphabet soup of toxins all over our body.  The point of fabric softener is that it stays in the fabric, that is what the manufacture works to achieve,  thus the fumes are being released into the air, especially when the person wearing the shirt perspires.  ( in some cases causing people around them to experience tightness in their lungs)

A 3rd Part study found Shaklee dryer sheets to be the best.  The sheets are fragrance free, biodegradable and  they use vegetable derived softening agents, not synthetic petroleum chemicals.  But my biggest point in this whole essay is that I find I don’t need to use softeners.  My laudry soap washes out completely, so my  clothes  are never stiff  ( it’s the fillers in the standard washing powders and liquids that make us think we need softeners) because there are no fillers to hide out inside the fibers causing stiffness, and there are no fillers, I have no static and more importantly  because there are no fillers my clothes don’t wear out.

Don’t be fooled by fragrances.  If you notice your family has more than their fair share of respiratory illnesses,  or skin irritations, re evaluate what cleaners you are using.  Come check out the ones I use and have used for over 30 years.  I promise they won’t disappoint you.  I stake my name on that and they come with a 100% money back guarantee.  Look under my weblinks and click on “organic,safe cleaners”.