Many ingredients found in commercial cleaners are harmful to your health and the environment. Some are carcinogenic, and neurotoxic, central nervous system depressants, building up in fatty tissues, causing respiratory, kidney and liver distress. Neurotoxins and central nervous depressants cause headaches, confusion, inability to concentrate, and symptoms associated with mental illness.
Solvents, petroleum based waxes, naptha, ammonia, and bytol cellusolve are found in common cleaning products. These ingredients are non-renewable resources that are slow to break down in the environment and contaminate air, water and land. Beathing in toxic chemicals from indoor cleaning products can worsen the affects of allergies and asthma.
Research completed by the World Wildlife Fund found that common cleaning products contained NPE's (nonylphenl ethoxylates) which disrupt hormones in the body. "Hormone disrupters" are being studied as possible causes of declining sperm counts, learning disorders, hyperactivity in children, and breast, testicular and prostrate cancers. The ability for chemicals to mimic hormones as well as mutate genetic material, is a new development in research without conclusive results.
Very little research has been completed on chemicals in household cleaners. There is much more unknown than known about chemicals found in household products and their effect on people and the environment. There are 75,000 different synthetic chemicals in use worldwide with 1000 new chemicals added each year. The USA Environmental Protection Agency has a list of 48,000 chemicals of which 80% have not been properly researched. In 1987 the US produced 400 billion pounds of synthetic organic chemicals (4 lbs./person/day).
Solvents, petroleum based waxes, naptha, ammonia, and bytol cellusolve are found in common cleaning products. These ingredients are non-renewable resources that are slow to break down in the environment and contaminate air, water and land. Beathing in toxic chemicals from indoor cleaning products can worsen the affects of allergies and asthma.
Research completed by the World Wildlife Fund found that common cleaning products contained NPE's (nonylphenl ethoxylates) which disrupt hormones in the body. "Hormone disrupters" are being studied as possible causes of declining sperm counts, learning disorders, hyperactivity in children, and breast, testicular and prostrate cancers. The ability for chemicals to mimic hormones as well as mutate genetic material, is a new development in research without conclusive results.
Very little research has been completed on chemicals in household cleaners. There is much more unknown than known about chemicals found in household products and their effect on people and the environment. There are 75,000 different synthetic chemicals in use worldwide with 1000 new chemicals added each year. The USA Environmental Protection Agency has a list of 48,000 chemicals of which 80% have not been properly researched. In 1987 the US produced 400 billion pounds of synthetic organic chemicals (4 lbs./person/day).
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"Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means." Heinrich Heine
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