I got an email today listing a bunch of different household cleaners and hygiene products that are unhealthy to use I thought I would share them with the other health and environmentally conscious mommysavers

Is Your Home Healthy?
According to the book, The Safe Shoppers Bible, here is a list of common household products that contain known carcinogens and/or neurotoxins. Carcinogens are chemicals that cause cancer. Neurotoxins are chemicals that adversely affect the nervous system reducing emotional well being, mental alertness, coordination and other functions associated with intelligence.

Lysol disinfectant (all scents)
Renuzit Air Deodorizer
Bon Ami Foam Cleaner
Citri-Solv
Fantastik All-Purpose Cleaner
Formula 409
Pine-Sol Multi-Action Spray
Pledge Household CleanerSimple Green
Spic & Span Cleaner
Scotts Liquid Gold
Lemon Pledge
Tilex Soap Scum Remover
Glass Plus
Ajax Cleaner
Gillette Foamy Skin Conditioning
Speed Stick Deodorant
Soft Soap
Secret Deodorant
Johnson's Baby Shampoo
S.O.S. Ammonia Glass Cleaner
Dawn Sureshot
S.O.S. Vinegar Cleaner
Joy Dishwashing Liquid
Windex Glass Cleaner
Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid
Shout Aerosol & Stick
Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid
Spray & Wash Stain Remover
Kleen King Aluminum & Copper Cleaner
KR2 Spot Lifter
Behold Furniture Wax
Depend-o Blue Toilet Cleaner
Endus
3M Aerosol Spot Remover
Formby's Lemon & Almond Spray
Most Home & Garden Pesticides
Right Guard Deodorant
Ponds Dry Skin Bar
Palmolive Skin Bar
Lady Speed Stick
Lever 2000
Irish Spring Deodorant
Lifebouy Soap
Jergens Liquid Soap
English LeatherDeodorant
Ban Roll-on
Caress Body Bar
Camay
Ultra Brite Toothpaste
Cepacol Mouthwash
Crest Tartar Control
Listerine Original & Cool Mint
Arm & Hammer Toothpaste
Colgate toothpaste
Scope Mouthwash
Old English Furniture Spray
Dove Soap Bars


Is Your Home Healthy?

To find out what's lurking on your shelves, go to the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine Household Products Database. You can search almost any brand of cleaner you use, find out what's in it, and uncover its links to health effects. Or search by chemical ingredients (see list below for some examples) and discover what brands contain it.

Chemical ingredients to look out for:

* Sodium Hydroxide
* Hydrochloric acid
* Butyl cellosolve (2-Butoxyethanol)
* Formaldehyde
* Bleach (sodium hypochlorite)
* Ammonia
* Sulfamic Acid
* Petroleum distillates
* Sulfuric acid
* Lye (potassium hydroxide)
* Morpholine

Wow - I am in trouble -

I've used these products for YEARS!!

I am even stocked on alot of them right now!!

Guess I will be Sure not to Use them and sit in a Closed room !



Lysol disinfectant (all scents)

Fantastik All-Purpose Cleaner
Formula 409

Lemon Pledge

Glass Plus
Ajax Cleaner
Speed Stick Deodorant

Secret Deodorant
Johnson's Baby Shampoo

Windex Glass Cleaner
Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid
Shout Aerosol & Stick

Spray & Wash Stain Remover

Lady Speed Stick

Old English Furniture Spray

It's funny because I got the same type of list...just a few different items on it. the #1 bad thing to use in your house (on the list I got) was a gas stove, because everytime it's used, your home has an "unhealthy air quality" as they put it! I have wanted to get a gas stove for a while, but after reading this article I searched around and found more info on it, I don't want a gas stove anymore!

I am surprised that the following items are on this list...

Ultra Brite Toothpaste
Cepacol Mouthwash
Crest Tartar Control
Listerine Original & Cool Mint
Arm & Hammer Toothpaste
Colgate toothpaste
Scope Mouthwash

anyone who buys them, obviously does so with intentions of putting them into their mouths...kind of crazy. I want to do some research when I have time to see just how accurate these lists actually are...It could just be the "competitor companies" of these products posting these lists just so people stop buying the competitors brand. I do believe that happens a lot! It happened to Proctor & Gamble about two years ago. There was some AWEFUL rumor spread about the company and the other "competitor" companies really benifited from it.

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According to my dental hygienist, we should not use any mouthwash that has alcohol in it (which most do - you have to look). Not only is it drying, which contributes to cavities, but it contributes to ORAL CANCER! I had no idea....yet, they stay on the market.

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I got this list to in an e-mail I think. I though great everything
I buy is bad now what am i going to do.

I know this is crazy! As far as gas stoves go, I'd be lost without mine but I'm always sure to turn my exaust fan on when I use it.

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