Toxins and pollutants, oh my!
So, in my quest to healthify and eco-fy my life as much as possible, I’ve switched over to organic house cleaners. It’s funny, after studying all the nasty toxic chemicals in most cleaners. . . I tried to find what some of the ingredients were in mine and found that there were no ingredients. No ingredients? Is it made out of water? I didn’t really understand. How can they not tell you the ingredients? Kevin has been having these rashes on his skin that will go away with medicine and then come back a couple of days later. The dermatologist told him to stop using fabric softeners. As it was, we were using ALL pure detergent which is hypoallergenic and free from perfumes and dyes, and also fabric softener free of the same things. Upon reading, I’ve found almost all fabric softeners are full of junk. Here is a great article about some of the issues concerning dryer sheets/fabric softeners. The new detergent I bought contains a soy based fabric softener in it. I was reluctant about using these other products, because they aren’t quite as convenient to buy but I did find most of the ones I was wanting on Drugstore.com. Most of them were on sale and it was free shipping! Can’t beat that. Now we just need to get a huge grocery store that sells only organic foods, and I’ll be one happy. . .clean feeling girl!
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http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/StoreList.html?storeabbr=&zip=33805&state=Select…&city=&searchBtn=Search
I don’t know if that link will work but you can copy and paste if you have to. We have Wild Oats Market in the Nashville area. There is one in Tampa so I sent you a link. I know that’s a long way to get groceries but it might be fun for a special trip.
Thank you! I’ll definitely be making a trip soon. I’ll have to stock up on everything I can. Publix has gotten better, but they still only have so much! The other stores that sell organic are just so small, and don’t have everything we need.
Baking soda and/or vinegar cleans EVERYTHING!
Also another really good all-natural bio-degradable product is called “Simple Green”
You dilute it with water depending on what strength you need for which task.
Good luck on the transition to being green! It’s soooo worth it. Goodbye stank chemical smells.
We’ve been making the same transition around here. They just opened a Whole Foods over by us (finally!) and now I just want to do all of our shopping there! Yes, baking soda and vinegar can be used to clean everything…I have some info on how to make a lot of your own cleaning products that I will email you. Glad we’re all trying to do our part to save our planet…I want there to be something left of it for Cale!
Thanks for the link! Now if only I would stop being so lazy and actually make my own cleaners. . .I could probably save some money!