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Report
- Environmentally Safe Cleaning Products
PROTECT YOUR FAMILY'S
HEALTH
With Natural Cleaning Products |
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| You probably think the air quality in
your home is healthful, wholesome or, at the very least, harmless. Yet, in 1989, the EPA
determined the toxic chemicals found in common household cleaners, often dispersed in
fumes, are three times more likely to cause cancer than are other air pollutants. The EPA also reported to Congress that our indoor air contains the nation's
worst pollution, with the typical American home having chemical contamination levels 70 times higher than levels
found in the air outside. |
In addition, disturbing results from a study
conducted by the Toronto Indoor Air 90 Conference found that: women who
work at home have a 54% greater risk of cancer than women who work outside the home
The quality of indoor air is being degraded by the products
most of us are using to clean and sanitize our homes. These products and the fumes and
residues produced by their use are endangering our lives. |
TOXIC PRODUCTS ARE A THREAT TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
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after the smell of a household cleaner has dissipated, its residual fumes linger in the
air you breathe. Simply opening a window will not remove all of the harmful fumes. Sending
your children into a different room will not spare them from breathing the chemicals. When you
use toxic substances in your home, you are putting your entire family at risk of exposure.
Airborne
toxins aren't the only danger posed by household cleaners. Chemicals in common dish
detergents remain on dishes after they are rinsed. Chemicals from laundry detergents are
deposited on clothing and bed linens as they are washed. When your child plays on the
floor, his or her skin can absorb toxic chemicals from the floor cleaners you have used. A
young child pressing his or her tongue against a window washed with a common window
cleaner can be exposed to a virtual chemical cocktail.
Long-term exposure to even very low levels of the toxic
compounds found in most household cleaning products has been correlated with a variety
of catastrophic illnesses and disorders. |
According
to the American Cancer Society, prior to the 20th century, only 1 out of 8,000
people in the United States were stricken with cancer. Since the Industrial Revolution the
introduction into our lives of a myriad of chemicals, the incidence of cancer has
increased to a startling 1 out of 3 people. The human body has basically become a receptacle for all the harmful compounds in
the environment--toxins such as industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy
metals, cigarette smoke, car exhaust, etc. The body traps these harmful substances and is
unable to discard them fast enough to protect us from their harmful effects.
Constant exposure to toxic chemicals in our food, air and
water has been shown to lower our threshold of resistance to disease and alter the body's
metabolism, causing enzyme dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies and hormonal imbalances.
Birth defects, developmental disorders, learning and behavioral disorders have all been
linked to toxic chemicals used in our homes. |
ACCIDENTAL POISONINGS:
TRAGEDIES THAT ARE PREVENTABLE
| Toxic
household cleaners pose acute dangers in addition to their chronic or cumulative effects
on the body. Every year, 5 to 10 million household poisonings are reported. Many of these
are fatal, and the majority of the victims are children. In 1990, 11% of all calls to Poison Control Centers involved a child and cleaning
products. More children under the age of four die from accidental poisonings at home than
die in accidents with guns at home. |
You certainly wouldn't leave a
loaded gun under your kitchen sink, but the cleaning products typically stored
there are just as dangerous. The best protection against poisoning is removing
toxic cleaning and laundry products from your home and replacing them with effective,
nontoxic alternatives. |
| DAMAGE TO OUR PRECIOUS GROUNDWATER |
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| In
addition to poisoning our children and polluting our air, toxic household cleaning
products are a major polluter of our groundwater systems, threatening the health of future
generations. Every time you pour your cleaning water
down the drain, you pollute the Earth's groundwater with many organic compounds, some of
which have deleterious or unknown health effects. |
We can all start undoing the
environmental damage of a century's worth of toxic buildup and protect our families from
the devastating effects of toxic cleaners by switching to safer, more effective
earth-friendly cleaning products. These products contain natural ingredients known for
their cleaning abilities, and many cost significantly less than their toxic counterparts. (from "Healthy
LifeStyles": About the author: Herbert Rosenblatt has spent the last 20 years
in the field of environmental protection and has 47 years experience as a chemical
engineer.) |
THERE IS A SOLUTION, AND A WAY TO CREATE
AN ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY HOME AT THE SAME TIME...
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