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by David Lee Buster, Dav

You may know that by using natural cleaning products, doing so is safer both for you, your family and the environment. Many of the cleaners used every day in the home are made of toxic substances such as petrochemicals. Anyone who is health conscious is wise to use natural cleaning products. You should do some comparison research on natural household cleaners versus the chemical cleaners.

Thousands of synthetic chemicals have found creation in the past five decades. Many of them were fashioned from coal tar and petroleum to function as chemical weapons in a warfare situation. Sadly, many of the substances do not undergo any safety testing for their effect on humans. Rather, without our consent, they become additives to our water, food and daily products such as chemical cleaning products.

These unnatural things are included without alerting us of the risks they pose. There is a yearly process of thousands of new chemicals being introduced while crucial information is suppressed by the industry.

Do you know that there is little available information on the majority of these daily use chemicals? Less than one out of ten have been tested for reproductive, chronic or mutagenic effects while less than one in five have been tested for acute health effects. Many have not undergone testing for long-term health risks or for the influence on the unborn or even the combined effects on the health of humans.

Cleaning products that you pour out of a container expose you to toxins from the fumes you breathe and through skin contact. When spraying petroleum-based toxic cleaners, the chemicals become airborne which in turn introduces particles of the air-born chemical into your lungs when you breath. You can reduce these types of exposure when you and your family use health-friendly natural cleaning products.

Many laundry detergents do not even list the ingredients on their containers. However, ammonia, phosphorus, phenol and naphthalene along with other chemicals are commonly included in laundry detergents. Petrochemicals and other ingredients in detergents may cause such reactions as itching, sneezing and allergy problems as well as rashes and other health problems. Petroleum-based chemicals have the ability to be absorbed into the skin and enter the body from the residue that remains in your sheets, towels, clothing and other fabrics after washing.

Chlorine bleach is a widely used chemical, however, it is also a very strong corrosive. It irritates and burns the eyes, the respiratory tract and skin. When ingested, it can cause vomiting, coma or pulmonary edema. You should never combine bleach with ammonia or any type of acid toilet bowl cleaner since these mixtures produce toxic fumes.

Since many toxic cleaners are substances that cannot be properly processed by septic systems or sewage, they pollute our rivers and oceans as well as underground streams. Do you know that leftover cleaning supplies discarded into the trash turns refuse sites into toxic-waste dumps? This endangers the health of sanitation workers while producing pollution to the earth and its underground water workings.

Natural household cleaners and natural cleaning products do not have this serious environmental effect. You can help improve your health and better the environment by using natural household cleaners such as soap, laundry detergent and dishwashing liquid.

Petrochemical products use up much more energy by their creation from such chemicals while natural cleaning products are environmentally friendly. Do you know that if every American household would replace one bottle of 50-ounce petroleum-based liquid laundry detergent with a natural cleaning product, we could save 280,000 barrels of oil? That is enough to cool and heat as many as 16,000 homes in America each year.

We can enjoy cleaning our homes without toxins by using natural cleaning products since they only cost slightly more than non-natural products. There are essential and major health benefits for those who use natural cleaning products since they do not have exposure to the toxins and health hazards posed by using commercial household cleaners.

Can you protect yourself and your loved ones from the toxic exposure or injury of poisoning from non-natural products? To some extent you can, by storing all chemicals in the original containers well out of reach of children. Always read, follow and use the instructions as given on any product you use, especially on the amounts you should use.

Pay attention not to combine substances that cause fumes that are even more toxic. Read all labels before a recommended use and follow every precaution of safety. And if you have questions, be sure to contact the manufacturer.

Research and educate yourself as much as possible. Keep in mind that it is always safer to use natural cleaning products daily. Many of these natural household cleaners are competitively priced and available since they are truly natural cleaning products.

Petrochemical additives in products are hazardous to your health and there is no need to expose yourself or your family to them when you can use environmentally friendly natural cleaning products. You will find that they are friendly to you as well as friendly to those you love.

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Home cleaning has always been an issue to each and every home even from a long time ago. Who would never want to have a clean house, anyway? But unlike to the present tips and tricks provided for an effective and safe home cleaning, what our elders had is of course, far more effectual and harmless. Do you ever think that what we have nowadays is more grandeur and preferable? Think again. Most of the elders who have come to witness what we have been doing to our houses in this day and age to maintain its cleanliness pity us for we are only putting more threats to our family, homes and environment instead of keeping it safe and clean.

The reason why we have a degrading means of maintaining cleanliness in our houses is because we are inclined to using harmful chemicals in our attempts to keep things spotless. True enough that such commercial home cleaning products offered in the market these days can provide the effectiveness that we all need and want. However, there is always a drawback in using such kinds since those cleaning agents contain harsh chemicals which can trigger serious health risks to our family as well as promoting more danger to our planet.

Have you notice why people of the earlier times where chemicals are not yet a part of anything that they make use of in their homes live longer and healthier compared to the people living at this age and time? Not only because they have had healthier lifestyles or a less complicated ones due to their discipline and the not-so-rampant-exposure to “bad influences” but it is also because of their careful use of home cleaning agents in their homes. While they are the careful ones, people in our times now would only seek for the convenience without having to dig on to the details of its safety and after-effects that might cause the lives of our family or the welfare of our environment.

Natural cleaners had always been used even from the times of our elders. These cleaners are ingredients that you can find at the convenience of your homes or more specifically, your kitchen. Our wise elders have been using them not just in their cooking but also in home cleaning. Some of these natural cleaning products that you can find are the vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda, borax and the like. These cleaners are useful cleansers, disinfectants and deodorizers. Aside from having these ingredients as safe and effective cleaners, you can also save from using them compared to those expensive yet harmful cleaning products.

And with the advancements in our technology, such natural ingredients have been made as models in the formulation of the so-called green cleaning products. These products are made from organic ingredients which similar to those natural ingredients found in your house are safer and more effective. They have the motive to promote not just cleanliness but more importantly, the safety of your family and the welfare of this planet, so as the name implies.

So if you are looking for ways to maintain cleanliness in your house without compromising safety, you might as well go green. Take heed of the elders' advices for they know what's better. They have been there and done that so if they're telling you to find your way towards getting hold of those organic cleaning products, why be skeptical? More and more people are going green nowadays so why be left behind? There are lots of credible resources out there and they're just waiting to be found. Be keen. Go green.

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