I walked into a local restaurant recently and upon entering, decided this was not the place I wanted to be, much less eat anything.  The smell of bleach was over powering, and I just knew that anything I would eat or drink in this place would taste like bleach.  The little skull and crossbones symbol sort of appeared in my imagination, and I turned around and walked out.  The unfortunate parts of the story are this: 

1.       People believe that Clean has a smell and they think that bleach or pine  “smell” makes it clean

2.       The people who work there are exposed to toxic chemicals on a regular basis

3.       When they happen to get the window cleaner with ammonia out to clean the windows, they have just created one of the most toxic brews.  The combination of these two chemicals release a chlorine gas and a close cousin to the stuff they used as Chemical Warfare in WWI

4.       And then we innocently walk in with our chemical sensitive child, or as an asthma sufferer ourselves and it sets off all sort of brain and/or lung malfunctions.

Even the label of all the leading brands state:  DANGER; Corrosive.  May cause severe irritation or damage to eyes and skin…..  Avoid breathing vapors and use only in a well ventilated area. 

There are lots of hard decisions to make when you consider potential safety of common household products.  I made a conscious decision NOT to use bleach in my home.  There are many safe, effective alternatives.   I landed on a book called Green Goes With Everything   By Sloan Barnett, an environmental investigative reporter for the San Francisco Bay area.  She refers to a product comparison study done by Sterling Laboratories.

The problem I always had was that those “natural” cleaners  is that they just don’t seem to work as well as those chemicals we’ve grown to depend on.  Pages 73-78 in her 3 week in a row best seller, shows  a 3^rd party comparison and the results are impressive.  You don’t have to compromise effectiveness for safety anymore.    Then if you are interested in getting some, go to my web site under web-links ,  and click on Green cleaners.  Or you may contact me directly for a few samples. deb@eco-logicalnews.com

P.S . They were Oprah’s favorite Green Cleaners  and on her Favorites Show in Dec 2007.