Household Cleaners                                                          

17,000 - Is the number of available petrochemicals for home use, only 30% of which we have tested for exposure to health & the environment.

63 - Is the number of chemical products found in the average American home, translating to roughly 10 gallons of harmful chemicals.

100 - Is the number of times higher that indoor air pollution levels can be above outdoor air pollution levels, according to USEPA.

5 billion - Is the number of pounds of chemicals that the cleaning industry uses yearly.

63 - The percentage of phone calls made to the National Poison Control Center of children’s ingestion of common household cleaning products.

Since the fifties, some 75,000 chemicals have been introduced to the world. Three hundred of those can now be found in our bodies, and in the bodies of newborn babies who inherit synthetic chemicals from their mothers.  Recent studies of families living with asthma, conducted by the American Lung Association and the American Respiratory Association, have found direct links between household cleaners and the onset of asthma attacks. Every day, more than 32 million pounds of household cleaning products are poured down the drain in this country.  Despite the best efforts of wastewater treatment plants, many of the toxic substances within these products find their way to our rivers.

The EPA conducted a study in the early eighties that concluded that concentrations of twenty cancer-causing chemicals were up to fifty times higher indoors than outdoor (the number have increased since then) - most appeared in an average bottle of all-purpose cleaner, toilet-bowl cleaner, or dish soap.  According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission, 150 common household chemicals are linked to allergies, birth defects, cancer, and psychological abnormalities.

Another thing to watch out for are aerosol sprays that contain nerve-damaging ingredients, such as hexane and xylene.  Aerosol sprays produce mist particles that can contain a high amount of organic solvents, according to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.  It warns that these solvents can be inhaled into the lungs and enter the bloodstream.

According to a 1999 study published in the weekly science and technology magazine, New Scientist, in homes where aerosol sprays and air fresheners were used frequently, mothers experienced 25% more headaches and were 19% more likely to suffer from depression, and infants younger than 6 months old had 30% more ear infections and a 22% higher incidence of diarrhea.

Recent medical studies have also proven a link between ordinary household cleaners and their direct impact on Asthma and Breast Cancer.  Findings also show a direct link between aromatic candles and liver disease, along with carcinogens that cause skin cancer and a multitude of other problems related to respiratory ailments directly caused by ordinary household cleaners!   (Information provided by The Daily Green)

So What’s The Problem With My Regular Household Cleaners?

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