Thursday, April 27, 2006

Are you exposing your family to harmful toxins?

Environmental Cleaning and Laundry Products:
For the Health of Your Planet, Your Home and Your Family

The unfortunate reality is that some of the most potentially harmful toxins can be found right where you live—in your home.

Many companies add undesirable ingredients to their cleaning products. In an effort to keep our carpets spotless, or our clothes and dishes sparkling clean, the average family may be exposed to a multitude of undesirable ingredients.

For instance, the most common poison exposures for children were ingestion of household products, such as cleaning substances.

Women often work closely with potentially toxic chemicals, and preliminary research suggests that their physiology is more conducive to absorbing and carrying these chemicals (Are Women at Higher Risk?). The health care costs from environmentally associated diseases in U.S. women are estimated to be 12.2 billion annually. The diseases include breast cancer, birth defects, autoimmune diseases and infertility.

Nearly 1 in 13 school-aged children have asthma. Between 1980-1994, asthma among children under five years old increased 160%! Strong smelling cleaners may start a child’s asthma attack.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

By using environmentally friendly cleaning and laundry products you rid your home of some of the most toxic ingredients. These cleaning products contain no ammonia, which is known to be an irritant to skin, eyes, and respiratory passages. No chlorine, which reacts with organic materials to create hazardous and carcinogenic toxins. No phenol, which can cause death if ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. And you’ll find no presence of a host of other carcinogenic chemicals and other undesirable ingredients found in other common household cleaners.

Plus, to protect our environment, our cleaning and laundry products contain no nitrates, phosphates or borates which use up large amounts of oxygen, resulting in the death of fish and other aquatic organisms. And of course, our products are not tested on animals.

And perhaps the best news is that with these cleaners you don’t have to sacrifice cleaning performance to be environmentally conscious. In fact, many these products OUTPERFORM leading brands. For instance, our liquid laundry concentrate outperforms leading laundry pre-spotters, like Spray n Wash and Shout, at removing blood, ink, grass and lipstick. Our fabric softner performs better static control than Downy.

Our cleaning and laundry products are concentrated, so there’s less landfill waste and more space in your home as well. Just one bottle of our famous organic household cleaner replaces dozens of hazardous household cleaners. And one quart of our organic cleaner makes up to 190 gallons of powerful cleaner with a 1,001 uses.

And finally our cleaning and laundry products save you money. Lots of money. One quart of germicide is equal to 372 22-oz bottles of Lysol antibacterial cleaner. And one quart of the organic household cleaner, when diluted as directed, is equal to 9 22-oz bottle of Simple Green, 188 quart bottles of Fantastik and 5,820 26-oz bottles of Windex!

With these cleaners, you protect the environment, protect the health of your family, and get better performance out of your cleaners, plus save money too! What’s not to like!

An easy way to switch to these cleaners is to order the Home Care Sampler Pack. It features five high-performing cleaning and laundry products for everyday use.

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