| We all like to use the best products to help us | | | | Chemical residue on wooden, tiled or vinyl floors are |
| complete our cleaning jobs, like removing hard water | | | | particularly significant. This is because although the |
| stains and limescale around the home, but can we | | | | floor is probably free from germs and dirt after using |
| use natural homemade formulas that contain | | | | the chemical products, children can end up playing on |
| non-toxic chemicals? Are they as effective? Are they | | | | the surface soon after picking up the residue on their |
| cheap to make? The answer to all these is yes, and | | | | skin. We all know children love putting objects in their |
| potentially poisonous chemical products are often not | | | | mouth, but cleaning everything that they pick up |
| necessary. | | | | before they do is not a great idea either. While |
| Lots of chemical cleaning products on the market | | | | attempts at intense cleaning are admirable and surely |
| produce volatile organic compounds (VOC's), which | | | | with the best intentions, this may simply be filling |
| escape into the atmosphere. If used correctly they | | | | childrens mouths with harmful chemicals. |
| are usually perfectly safe, but when small amounts | | | | We hear a lot about "green products" these days |
| are left on surfaces (which we all know can happen), | | | | and why we should all use them, but are they really |
| or left to float around the room that was just | | | | effective? Well, before we had all the manufactured |
| cleaned they can be harmful, particularly to children | | | | chemical products, we still had the same cleaning |
| and pets. | | | | issues that we do today. There was no way we |
| Although rinsing the chemical off surfaces or wiping | | | | could go to the cupboard and pull out the latest |
| down with a clean cloth afterwards is a good idea, it | | | | product we'd seen on TV to solve the problem. We |
| doesn't get rid of all of the chemical from the room. | | | | had to used the natural goods around us to get the |
| As they often use solvents in these products, it | | | | job done, and they were used because of just that, |
| causes gassing off, which is the reason why when | | | | they got the job done! We can still use them today |
| we get a whiff of some of them, we get the rush | | | | if we wanted to, and more and more people are |
| of lightheadedness and nausea that comes when we | | | | realizing the benefits of using natural homemade |
| get too close! Young children, the elderly, and those | | | | formulas to tackle household cleaning, particularly in |
| who are sensitive to chemicals are particularly | | | | removing hard water stains and limescale in a much |
| susceptible to the effects of these noxious chemicals. | | | | cheaper, safe and non-toxic way. |