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How To Clean Green
by Adam Ciboch
To clean and increase beauty to the house, it is helpful to employ house decorating and air cleaning products, but these cause indoor pollution. In fact, the concentration of pollutants in indoor air can be more than 100 times more than outside, mostly due to the after effects of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate from many of these products. Here are several things you can do to reduce the pollutants thriving in your house.
You can open up the windows of your home on the next sunny day and let out all the pollutants that have gathered there. Room fresheners and scented cleaning products must be avoided at all costs for they contain many VOCs and other toxic chemicals. VOCs cause a lot of destruction to the environment in addition to poisoning the air you breathe and potentially provoking ailments of the skin, eye and respiratory system. A vase of flowers will refresh any area naturally.
New Scientist published a study about ten years ago that had some startling results about air fresheners and aerosol sprays. In homes where these products were utilized on a regular basis, moms suffered 25 percent more headaches and were 19 percent more likely to experience depression; and infants less than six months of age had 30 percent more ear infections and 22 percent more incidence of diarrhea.
When choosing "green" cleaning options, consumers must be aware of a phenomenon known as "green washing." This refers to the assumption that a product is non-toxic just for the reason that the word "natural" appears on the label. Unregulated and very vague, the word is irrelevant here and can apply to anything at all.
Focus should be directed solely on eco-friendly components listed on the product label as indicated by David Steinman, the co-author of The Safe Shopper's Bible. A few of these include: grain alcohol, coconut or other plant oils in detergents and plant-oil disinfectants such as eucalyptus, rosemary or sage.
You can also clean efficiently with products made at your house. By mixing water, baking soda, plain soap, vinegar, washing soda (sodium carbonate), lemon juice, and borax, you can create a safe and useful house cleaners. Get green cleaning recipes on the “Clean & Green” page or check out (book) for more ideas.
The public must be made aware of cleaning products that are poisonous, and according to Philip Dickey of the Washington Toxics Coalition, these can include: corrosive drain cleaners, oven cleaners, acidic toilet-bowl cleaners, and anything containing chlorine or ammonia, which can be fatal if mixed.
Keeping your house clean is necessary; indoor air pollution is not!
Go Green & Stay Clean.
by Adam Ciboch
To clean and increase beauty to the house, it is helpful to employ house decorating and air cleaning products, but these cause indoor pollution. In fact, the concentration of pollutants in indoor air can be more than 100 times more than outside, mostly due to the after effects of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate from many of these products. Here are several things you can do to reduce the pollutants thriving in your house.
You can open up the windows of your home on the next sunny day and let out all the pollutants that have gathered there. Room fresheners and scented cleaning products must be avoided at all costs for they contain many VOCs and other toxic chemicals. VOCs cause a lot of destruction to the environment in addition to poisoning the air you breathe and potentially provoking ailments of the skin, eye and respiratory system. A vase of flowers will refresh any area naturally.
New Scientist published a study about ten years ago that had some startling results about air fresheners and aerosol sprays. In homes where these products were utilized on a regular basis, moms suffered 25 percent more headaches and were 19 percent more likely to experience depression; and infants less than six months of age had 30 percent more ear infections and 22 percent more incidence of diarrhea.
When choosing "green" cleaning options, consumers must be aware of a phenomenon known as "green washing." This refers to the assumption that a product is non-toxic just for the reason that the word "natural" appears on the label. Unregulated and very vague, the word is irrelevant here and can apply to anything at all.
Focus should be directed solely on eco-friendly components listed on the product label as indicated by David Steinman, the co-author of The Safe Shopper's Bible. A few of these include: grain alcohol, coconut or other plant oils in detergents and plant-oil disinfectants such as eucalyptus, rosemary or sage.
You can also clean efficiently with products made at your house. By mixing water, baking soda, plain soap, vinegar, washing soda (sodium carbonate), lemon juice, and borax, you can create a safe and useful house cleaners. Get green cleaning recipes on the “Clean & Green” page or check out (book) for more ideas.
The public must be made aware of cleaning products that are poisonous, and according to Philip Dickey of the Washington Toxics Coalition, these can include: corrosive drain cleaners, oven cleaners, acidic toilet-bowl cleaners, and anything containing chlorine or ammonia, which can be fatal if mixed.
Keeping your house clean is necessary; indoor air pollution is not!
Go Green & Stay Clean.
This video shows you simple changes to make while cleaning green.
