Does The Earth Count? - Environmentally Safe Cleaning Products
It’s time that we all realise that our environment is a part of our existence, that we can’t live without it. Ecosystem balance starts in our own homes.
I bet, you did not think you can start changing your destructive behavior just by changing your cleaning habits and start using environmentally safe cleaning products.
If you convinced harsh chemicals are better cleaners, think twice. Even if they are, your health is in double jeopardy; you breathe the chemicals in and your lungs get damages, the chemical drops on your skin can harm you in many ways, too.
Let’s begin with glass cleaning. Do you really think the vinegar needs to be mixed with ammonia to keep it sparkles and shiny? No, you don’t need ammonia, period.
There is not need for complicated chemical formulas in your kitchen or bathroom. Environmentally safe soap and water should be enough to do the job.
Are you using the regular brush or sponge to scrub those especially dirty surfaces? I hope your answer is positive. Otherwise, you, and anybody else is in big trouble. Recently companies producing liquid soaps started to ad little bits of plastic to the cleaners. They do it to perfect the scrubbing of the worked on surface. You may think nothing of that. But have you consider, those plastic bits go to your water supply, which you drink? They also go to the seas and oceans and are swallowed by marine life. If you fish lover, you will be the end consumer.
Watching television ads about how the germs are after you and how you must to buy into a specific chemical product in order to protect yourself from them, doesn’t help your healthy lifestyle. Germs were always there and your immune system knows what do and how to fight them. Therefore do not give in into the blatant advertisement. Just use your common sense when you do cleaning. You may use a environmentally safe disinfectant that won’t harm neither you nor the environment.
The call for saving the Earth reached many cleaning products producers. Either they are switching to total Earth friendly cleaning products or manufacture non toxic cleaners next to the traditional chemical products. Now, it’s up to you to find the best environmentally friendly cleaners to suits your lifestyle.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
What I have to tell you is quite urgent.