So, let’s say you want to change products, but you are a bit skeptical because your past experience tells you that the claims of the Natural cleaners is a bit over rated. Here is a line of products that will knock your socks off! They do every bit that they say they will and more. Comes with a money back guarantee.
Want to know what I personally use, Click on the Organic, Safe Cleaner under Weblinks on the left side of this page. http://debv.myshaklee.com
What’s under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Every public facility is required to have the MSDS ( Material Safety Data Sheets) available in order to inform and protect the public, just in case someone was harmed by the products. However, we as individuals don’t have a clue on the dangerous effects and side effect of these products we are randomly using.
In this article, I am addressing ONLY the SIDE EFFECTS of everyday DISINFECTANTS
HAZARDOUS CONSTITUENT POSSIBLE EFFECTS of Disinfectants
AMMONIA Fumes irritate eyes and lungs; can cause burns or rashes on skin; can produce deadly chloramine gas if mixed with chlorine containing products
DETERGENTS Toxic and poisonous to ingest, causing nausea and in extreme cases - coma
CRESOL Corrosive to tissue, damages liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas and spleen
LYE Caustic product that burns skin, can cause blindness
PHENOL Central nervous system depression; severely affect circulatory system; corrosive to skin; suspected carcinogen
PINE OIL Irritates eyes and mucous membranes
Disinfectants are considered pesticides. They reduce some germs and are a temporary measure at best for making your home “germ free.” Skin contact and vapors can be irritating and corrosive to the respiratory system and skin. Disinfectants are especially hazardous when dispersed from aerosol cans because the disinfectant can be easily ingested through the nose and mouth.
Disinfectants may contain one or more of the following hazardous substances: ammonia, cationic detergents, cresol, lye, phenol, pine oil. Please refer to these compounds for specific health hazards associated with these ingredients.
Use: Avoid aerosol dispensers. Handle disinfectant with gloves to avoid corrosive effects and absorption through skin and wear safety goggles. Make sure ventilation is adequate with plenty of fresh air present. Do not use disinfectants around food, animals, or children.
Storage: Keep away from children. Store in a well ventilated area.
Disposal: Use up as intended. To dispose of unused or unwanted portions take the product to a hazardous household waste collection center. If collection is not available, then flush the product down the drain with plenty of water. If on a septic tank or lagoon, dispose of small quantities over a number of days.
Go here to do some research http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/
The following information is from: http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/town/main.html
Do I know of a great alternative?
www.bellawelllifestyles.com and go to the GREEN Cleaner section for a full array of Safe, Effective, Household Cleaners.
Being obsessed with spotless, germ-free, fragrant, gleaming sparkling, springtime fresh is harming our family. Every day products expose us to hundreds of insidious, invisible, dangerous chemicals, potent substances we us daily in cleaning supplies, cosmetics, deodorants, and other personal care products, dry cleaning, laundry by products, plastic containers, paint, varnishes, home & garden supplies – it is a very long list. They create VOC’s, thus making our homes 5x’s higher inside our homes and offices. We inhale them, digest them and absorb them.
Recently a study showed that most Americans have large amounts of pesticides which leads to health threats. Some stay in the body a short time, others are more persistent and they circulate in the blood, lodge in fatty tissue, muscle, bone , brain, & other These are know as body burden. There are only 4 labs in the world that will do the testing. 17 vials of blood will tell you how the chemicals effect us and how much of these may cause illness. Of course there are other causes of illness. Bacteria, Virus, fungi, pollen dust, insecticides, dander & mold. These live in the surface of your hands, bacteria may be liked to sinks, toilets. We are all being exposed to biological pollutants every day. Obviously, those with chronic illnesses may be even more vulnerable
There are really only 2 kinds of dirt.
Safe dirt
Scary dirt – the toxins we buy unknowingly, new carpet, new furniture, stain retardants, fake pine, fake lemon, air fresheners with fake orange, vanilla. Remember this: Real Clean doesn’t have a smell and Real Clean can’t hurt you.
Years ago, cleaners used to be homemade, combining vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda. Then chemical companies saw a market. They advertise ring around the collar. They were like Trojan horses. We brought them into our home, and unknowingly they unleash and army of invaders. Tell women you have information that will help make them and their families healthy, happy and healthy and they will be all ears. We really all want the same happy and healthy followers. After all going green is all about choices.
Making your home green make is all about making choices.
What is a GREEN product? It won’t hurt YOU, your parents, or your pets, and it doesn’t hang around like an unwanted guest after you use it - on floors, carpets, counters, clothes, and so forth. The packaging it comes in should be the minimum required and brek down into safe or recyclable stuff when you are done with it. And, though this can be hard to find out, it shouldn’t require a lot of nonrenewable or even renewable resources to make it, use it, or dispose of it. http://bellawelllifestyles.com ( click on the GET GREEN tab to learn more)
So what is clean? It’s my fresh bed after I ‘ve just washed the sheets in non-toxic detergents. It’s a home that has that non descript smell of almost nothing, sort of like Antarctica 20 years ago. It is a bathroom that sparkles and shines with utterly NO scents or fragrances. Then my house is Clean . ……And Safe
It was a good idea in the beginning. It used to be that if you wanted a drink of something while you were out, it was sweet syrup drinks that were carbonated. If you wanted a drink of water, then you needed to go to a water fountain. That wasn’t so bad back in the day, however, we have become more “bacteria” conscious from a health perspective and we all know that the water we drink directly out of the tap has been used by at least 20 other people in many different ways and may not be the best beverage in the world.
Yep, that is what I said, our water is full of “lord knows what”. AND when you think about it, there really is only “so much” water available. It moves around with the clouds, but the process is the same. Rain, evaporation, clouds and more rain.
Back to the topic at hand. We started using water bottles because we became more aware of the toxins in our water supply. Here is the sad and scary thing. That bottled water industry has never really been very regulated. If you buy water that says Spring water, you can be drinking water out of someone else’s tap. ( They pay a penny a gallon, re-bottle it, send it across the country at these steep gas prices and then charge 75 cents to $3 for a 12 oz bottle) pretty big profit margins eh?
Now, you have a plastic bottle that leaches plasticizers into the water you are drinking which have been proven to be carcenogens, and then we must dispose of the container ( usually into our land fills).
Here is my opinion, for what it’s worth. The convenience of bottled water is wonderful. It certainly ranks high over drinking soda. If we just used it as a convenience item rather than a daily use item, we could make a powerful impact on our landfills. Sort of like Diapers….. I always thought of the disposable as a waste of money and harmful to the environment, but they were a great solution for travel.
If we all would just make these kinds of small changes, our world would be a much better place for our future generation.
Be part of the solution, not the pollution
Contact me at deb@eco-logicalnews.com Deb Villarese
Comments by Deb Villarese.
REALLY!! Did you hear what that was really saying?? It just about knocks me over everytime I hear it. I have just shown them the health and safety risks of the current cleaners “someone” is using/ They have been told and shown that this “stuff” they are using is actually considered hazardous waste. Their kids and perhaps even themselves suffer from allergies, asthma, eczema, ADD and an assortment of other ailments and they actually say, “I want to use up what I have before I switch”.
Is life really all about the money? The cost of continuing to use the products is far more than disposing of them appropriately and switching to all GREEN, alll SAFE, and all EFFECTIVE, Green Cleaners. that not only protect themselves, their family and also Mother Earth.
Maybe they are saying, “Well, the stuff hasn’t killed me yet so I’ll just use it up” Yet the long term lasting effects are numerous. Which snow flake do you blame when the tree’s branch break in a snow storm.
So I guess that old line that says, ” If you do something that is harmful and didn’t know it at the time….. it’s called ignorance, but if you know it’s harmful and you do it anyway, it’s call Stupidity” It’s a few dollars and you waste more than that on any given day. The cost of NOT switching is FAR MORE expensive!
At first thought, a person might think this “stuff” which kills germs is the next best thing to sliced bread. However, the long term usage has far too many side effects for continual use.
All living things have an internal desire to “thrive and survive”. Much like city rats that have adapted to their environments, these microscopic “germs” will do what they must in order to continue to survive. They will mutate and even become immune to things that once killed them. We have created a “SUPER BUG: and our children are suffering because of the “germo-fobia” we have “commercially created”. It is sort of like ” being a Mom that is obsessed with germ free and anti-bacterial stuff makes her a better Mom. I would like to put that Myth aside.
Wash your hands is all we hear. Of course that is an important issue, but perhaps we need to take a close look at what we are using to wash them.
Our skin is much like a sponge. You rub lotion on yourself and it disappears almost immediatly. The same thing occurs with soaps. Anti-bacterial properties are strong, as well as harmful to the skin. ( just read the caution labels on your disinfectant cleaners) Manufactures put those same sort of ingredients in the hand soaps we use daily. ( Have you noticed that your hands need more lotion, or they are cracking like never before?)
We are exposed to bacteria and viruses constantly-in fact trillions of them live in our bodies. Our immune system is designed to cope with these germ to dispose of them. When we over use the anti-bacterial and anti-microbial soap, the germs get smart and become resistant to the chemicals we use against them.
I know of a Mom who used the “wipes” in her car constantly and every time she wiped the hands of her children, she wiped her steering wheel and dashboard and arm rests as well. After only 4 years of doing this, her steering wheel and dashboard has cracked and the arm rests have deteriorated. What sounded like a really great idea really wasn’t. If those types of wipes with triclosan can do that sort of damage to an auto, what might it be doing to our children? Their bodies hide the damage internally… not so with ojects.
What is wrong with just some good ole soap and water? I dare a germ to stay on my hand once I soap up and rinse off. Think of yourself trying to hang on to anything that is slicked up with a lather… impossible. Maybe using all this stuff has become a bit of an “over-kill” (no pun intended) .
Look for soaps and wipes that don’t have anti-bacterial properties and see if suddenly your family isn’t as sick as they were a year ago. I don’t have a published study on this, but I have seen it happen in countless families. Germs are naturally occuring and we can all ive harmoniously together. Why not give it a try. If you want to know of a GREAT hand soap that works well, has a wonderful natural fragrance and the one quart makes 64 bottles of a hand soap, make a comment to this blog and I will put a free sample in the mail to you.
Why do “non-toxic” green cleaners get such a bad rap? People know that what they are using are very toxic and harmful, but there is a great mis-conception out there that if you go “GREEN” in your cleaning supplies, that your house won’t be as clean. Why do people think this? Because they bought the “organic” stuff in the market place and their results were….. “UNDER WHELMING” at best. Or they made the supreme sacrafice and used vinegar, lemon juice and baking soda with less than “stellar results.
They work with these products for about as long as they can stand and then one day, in the market, they see the cleaner they used to use, that cleaned the shower so well, and they make YET another compromise. They say, just this once.
They spend 15 minutes in the shower stall cleaning, choking and gagging, but they have a clean shower and if the products were “that” dangerous, they wouldn’t be allowed to sell them. ( At the time of cleaning, if the EPA came into your shower and read the “toxins meter” your home would be 4X’s the legal limit of unsafe toxins, and they, OSHA would shut you down if you were a factory.
Shaklee products are and always have been “SAFE”, NATURAL, and EFFECTIVE for almost 50 years. There are no compromises when it comes to using Safe, non-toxic, effective household products.
To learn more go to: www.shaklee.net/debv/getclean
Have you ever taken a look at what a city or recycling center will take or not take? Seriously, go to your towns web site and take a look. Household Chemicals ( the ones we spray all over and clean our floors and windows, and bathrooms with) are considered “hazardous waste” and should NOT be dumped down the drains ( interesting!) For proper disposal, they should be brought to your local facility for proper disposal.
Yes, these products that we keep under lock and key and pull out while the children are napping and spay all over the place. In essense, we are spaying hazardous waste all over our homes while they are sleeping.
If “they” make it, it must be safe. WRONG! don’t assume anyone cares for your well being. They aren’t regulated and so if they don’t self regulate, ( which cost a lot more time effort and money) they are going to produce something that does the job, but hasnt’ been tested for safety.
9 out of 10 poisonings are a result of a household cleaner! And over the past 30 years there have been over 81,000 chemicals registered with the EPA , of which less than 20% have been tested for safety. …and there are no regulations that say that they MUST.
Stay tuned… much more to follow.
By Lyndsey Layton | The Washington Post
March 13, 2009
WASHINGTON — More than half the baby shampoo, lotions and other infant-care products analyzed by a health advocacy group were found to contain trace amounts of two chemicals that are believed to cause cancer, the organization said Thursday.
Some of the biggest names on the market, including Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo and Baby Magic lotion, tested positive for 1,4-dioxane or formaldehyde or both, the non-profit Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reported.
The chemicals, both characterized as probable carcinogens by the Environmental Protection Agency, are not added intentionally to products and appear to be byproducts of the manufacturing process.
The organization tested 48 baby bath products. Of those, 32 contained trace amounts of 1,4-dioxane and 23 contained small amounts of formaldehyde. Seventeen products tested positive for both chemicals.
“Our intention is not to alarm parents but to inform parents that products that claim to be gentle and pure are contaminated with carcinogens, which is completely unnecessary,” said Stacy Malkan, a spokeswoman for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
Companies that manufacture and sell products tested by the group said they comply with government standards.
“The FDA and other government agencies around the world consider these trace levels safe, and all our products meet or exceed the regulatory requirements,” Johnson & Johnson said. “We are disappointed that the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has inaccurately characterized the safety of our products, misrepresented the overwhelming consensus of scientists and government agencies that review the safety of ingredients, and unnecessarily alarmed parents.”
Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons- Juls Knapp Photography
According to the US Government, the average household contributes 20 pounds of hazardous waste per year. We are so quick to blame “big business” and yet when you put it all together our neighborhood alone, if that average is correct, (I would guess in our more affluent area, we might be adding more than the average)
Stillwater could possibly be contributing to the hazardous waste arena, approximately 11,000 lbs of hazardous waste into our landfills each year. I would make a guess to say, not because we didn’t care, but just because we didn’t know that these regular items are hazardous.
Most of us certainly would not consider our everyday trash “hazardous”, however, if you happen to throw away household batteries, or light-bulbs into the trash, you’ve added to the hazardous waste “toxic brew” of chemicals that are leaching into our soil, and ultimately into our water supply.
Here is a list of what is considered Hazardous:
Oil based paints, paint thinners, herbicides, Insecticides, Pesticides, Old Gasoline, Pool Chemicals, Household Cleaning Products, Household batteries, mercury, used motor oil, Drain Cleaners, Lawn chemicals, Solvents, Anti-freeze, hobby chemicals, aerosol paints, CFL Florescent lights – they contain mercury NOTE: This includes their containers as well.
Here is what we can do;
Have a special place for old battery collection, set aside a box to throw away florescent lights, Please don’t dump unwanted solvents or cleaners down the drain or into our water supply. The City of Naperville has provided a place for us to dispose of our hazardous waste items.
Fire Station #4
1971 Brookdale Rd ( near Rte 59)
Naperville, Il
Weekends ONLY
Sat & Sun 9AM-3PM
Latex Paints, Electonic items will be talked about in another future issues. These need to be handled in totally different ways. In the mean time, make a family project to collect all hazardous waste and dispose of them properly.
“Let’s all Give a Hoot and Don’t Pollute”