With one Get Clean Starter Kit from Shaklee, you can help keep our “planet greener by keeping 108 pounds of packaging waste out of landfills.” (Source: Shaklee) What you put on and around your body is just as important as what you put in your body. Would you willingly use toxins in your laundry detergent and in your skin care and beauty products? What about toxins in your household cleaning products? Would you willingly use that as well? You may not realize it, but if you’re not using truly organic and natural products, then you are most likely putting some toxins in and on and around your body.
For years, I used to clean my house with bleach, then I started getting headaches due to breathing in the toxins as I was cleaning. That’s when I decided to start using only natural cleaners. Even then, not every natural cleaner I found was good. Yes, they did not have the harmful toxins; however, they still had a strong scent which bothered me. I guess you can say that I am extremely sensitive to chemicals and the toxins they emit—probably even more so since I’ve stopped using all of the harsh chemical cleaners and laundry detergents for at least the last 6 – 7 years. Just the other day, my husband and I were walking in Costco and we needed to buy some paper towels. Even simply walking by the chemical cleaners aisle, caused me to get a headache, just from normal breathing. Have you ever thought about the fact that even just walking by the chemical cleaners you can breathe in toxins?
Some of these statistics are staggering:
- Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home.
- Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involved
in poisoning. - Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners and
even air fresheners, are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out. - A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the "acute one-hour exposure limit" for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
- Common cleaners give off fumes that have been linked to
increasing the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common serious chronic childhood disease. - 1 in 13 school-aged children has asthma. Rates in children under five have increased more than 160% from 1980 – 1994.
- Children are highly vulnerable to chemical toxicants. Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air than adults. The implication of this is that children will have substantially heavier exposures than adults to any toxicants that are present in water, food or air.
- If your home is anything like the average U.S. home, you
generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each year (the EPA designates toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach as hazardous waste).
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