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10 reasons why consumer opinion is low for carpet cleaners and other service professionals
Too many service professionals believe and rely on the common adage "50% of success is just showing up." In fact, they seem to act that, "If half of my success is just showing up, I don't really have to do anything and will get by just fine." ...
Home For The Holidays
Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 8, 2003
In my husband's family, family members send Christmas cards to other family members (parents to children, brothers and sisters to one another, etc.) even though the family always spends...
How to Have a Charity Birthday Party for Your Child
As a parent, you probably know that the birthday party routine can be an almost painful experience. With about 20 children in your child's class, going to more than one birthday party in one weekend can occur quite often. If you have more than...
Lifecare Communities’ Commitment To Quality
Too often the term “Nursing Home” is associated with poor care and poor conditions. That’s a shame and a concern because Nursing Homes are among the most regulated of services, and hundreds of thousands of people across the country spend their work...
Shopping: Be Wary
You may not get what you expect!
Retailing has become very competitive in recent years and too many corporations, including some large retail chains, are using trickery and deception in marketing. Misleading advertisements, displays and...
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Are You Unknowingly Poisoning Your Family?
This is a pretty harsh question to have to ask yourself, but most parents don’t realize that if they are buying bleach, air fresheners, dish detergent, laundry detergent, disinfectants, other household cleaners and some personal care products that they may be unknowingly slowly poisoning themselves and their loved ones.
Safety conscious parents think their families are safe when poisonous products are put up high on shelves in closed closets or in locked cabinets. But, did you know that most of the poisonings of small children happen from common everyday household products that are within reach? According to the American Association Poison Control Centers, a child is poisoned in the United States every 30 seconds! Liquid dish soap is one of the leading causes of poisonings in children under six! (There is an estimated 2.1 million accidental poisonings per year. In 2001 and 2002, over 1 million children under six were poisoned. 69,000 children were exposed to or poisoned from common household pesticides and 26,338 were exposed to or poisoned by bleach.) Most common name brand dish detergents contain formaldehyde and ammonia. Are you using a top selling brand? If so, you are exposing yourself and your family to these two toxic chemicals on a consistent basis.
Are you surprised to learn that dish soap contains formaldehyde? Unfortunately, a lot of products do, and we don’t know it because there are many chemical name variations that we don’t recognize. Often times, “trade names” are used to disguise harmful chemicals. Be aware that the inactive ingredients are often the most harmful.
Another product that is very hazardous is air fresheners. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, there are four main ingredients in air fresheners and they are formaldehyde, petroleum distillates, p-dichlorobenzene, and aerosol propellants. The EPA states that air fresheners are strong irritants to eyes, skin and throat and can cause death if eaten. Do we want to be breathing such toxins? Not to mention the threats to pets and small children.
Indoor air pollution is 2-5 times higher inside our homes than it is outdoors, states the EPA. Is it any wonder that asthma rates have sky rocketed? Not to mention allergies, cancer, chemical sensitivities, childhood diseases and the list goes on and on. It really is time to stop and take a look at the products we are surrounding ourselves with and the environment that we are creating inside and outside.
So, right now you’re thinking, “Okay, I’ll look into alternative cleaners.” But, did you know that the personal care products you are using are just as guilty for toxic chemicals? Yes, even products like shampoos, deodorants and other products we put on our skin have toxic chemicals, and again, formaldehyde rears its ugly head in some of them! Our skin is the largest organ of our body, and it is a big sponge. If you are using products with unhealthy ingredients, your skin is absorbing toxins on a daily basis. (Think about how the pharmaceutical companies have been dispersing some drugs lately, through skin patches! Yes, our skin is very
absorbent.) So, from pesticides on your food, chemicals in your water and then, chemicals from products used throughout the day and on a daily basis, you can see that it all adds up. Additionally, children have been poisoned and some have died from ingesting such products as shampoo. Most people don’t even stop to think it could happen from such a product.
Where do you keep the pesticides in your home? In the garage? How about in your laundry room or in your bathroom? If you are using bleach, or common brand name disinfectants, you are using pesticides. Do you swim in swimming pools? Chances are unless the pool is using some healthy alternative, you are swimming in pesticides! Yes, pool chemicals along with bleach and disinfectants are listed by the EPA as pesticides! “Cide” in pesticide means “to kill”! Most of us know that pesticides, because they are lethal, are used to kill pests such as bugs, insects and rodents. Do you still want to use toxic disinfectants to spray down surfaces you touch everyday? How about spraying high chairs and children’s toys with a pesticide? How much of these poisons are children ingesting or absorbing when they put fingers, toys or food in their mouths after the item has touched or been sprayed with toxic chemicals?
Many people believe that the government protects them from exposure to harmful chemicals through laws and regulations, but this is not the case. Companies are left to their own ethics as to what they will put in their products. Does this make you feel safe? There is no law requiring manufactures to list the exact ingredients on consumer product labels.
Government legislation or regulations may not be the answer, because the amount of products and chemicals currently on the market is so vast that trying to regulate it all would surely be a nightmare. However, we as consumers can change what we buy and send a strong message to companies that we won’t purchase their toxic brews. Then perhaps, we can get these horrible toxic products off the shelves and safer and healthier ones in their place.
Since World War II approximately 70,000 chemicals have been introduced into the market place and the environment. Isn’t it time we stop bringing these chemicals into our homes, businesses, schools, daycares and our environment?
There are safer and healthier products available that work superbly, and many of them are higher quality and don’t cost anymore than their counterparts. For more information on safer and healthier products, feel free to contact me through my website.
Copyright 2005 Kelly Hoffman
About the Author: Kelly Hoffman works from home as a Wellness Consultant and is a homeschooling mom to her daughter. She is also an advocate for health awareness and for taking personal responsibility of our own health. For more health awareness information, visit her website at http://hoffman.kidsneedus.com .
Source: www.isnare.com
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