How Safe Is Your Home?

The typical home uses dozens of cleaning and personal care products which contain chemical ingredients that are harmful to your health and your family.
Air Freshener: Highly flammable. Health effects include irritation to the eyes, throat and lungs. Fumes act as a nerve-deadening agent to cover up one smell with another but can be very damaging to the respiratory tract.
Antifreeze: Poisonous to animals. Absorption through the skin may cause damage to internal organs and inhalation can cause dizziness.
Automatic Dishwashing Detergents: (Powdered/Liquid) Can cause strong irritation to skin. If swallowed, can cause mild to severe internal burns. Harmful to the environment.
Bleach: Contact with eyes can cause severe irritation, burns. Fumes can be a strong irritant to eyes, throat and lungs. Ingestion can cause injury to the esophagus, stomach resulting in nausea and vomiting.
Carpet Cleaner: May contain carcinogenic and toxic fumes causing dizziness, nausea, loss of appetite and sleepiness.
Disinfectant: Strong toxic, carcinogenic and corrosive agents. Vapors can be irritating to the skin, eyes and respiratory system; they are especially hazardous when dispersed from aerosol cans as fumes can be easily ingested, irritating the nose and mouth.
Floor Cleaner: Flammable. Fumes irritate skin, eyes, throat mucous membranes and respiratory tract. Inhalation causes headache, drowsiness.
Furniture Cleaner: Contains flammable propellants. Irritant to the skin, eyes and respiratory tract.Furniture Polish Highly flammable. Health affects include irritation to the skin, eyes, nose and lungs when fumes are inhaled. Ingestion may include moderate to severe nausea, vomiting, dizziness and even death.
Glass/Window Cleaner: Fumes can cause irritation to the skin, eyes, and lungs.
Hair Spray: Highly flammable. Health affects from long-term use may include irritation to eyes and respiratory system as well as serious health problems.
Insect Repellant: Irritant to sensitive skin and toxic to respiratory tract. Ingestion or inhalation can cause central nervous system depression and may affect the liver and kidney. Excessive use can produce symptoms such as loss of coordination, anxiety, behavioral changes and mental confusion.
Laundry Detergent: Can be an irritant to the skin. If swallowed, can cause mild to severe internal burns. Harmful to the environment.
Mildew Remover: Strong corrosive toxin and suspected carcinogen. Health effects from inhalation, absorption through the skin, or ingestion can cause respiratory irritation including lung inflammation, and dry skin.Mothballs A toxic pesticide and suspected carcinogen. Strong irritant to skin, eyes and respiratory tract causing headache, confusion or depression. Prolonged vapor exposure can lead to liver damage and cataract formation.
Nail Polish Remover: Flammable. Irritating to eyes, nose and throat.
Oven Cleaner: Extremely corrosive. Fumes and vapors are extremely toxic, irritating to the skin, eyes, and lungs. Contact with the skin can cause moderate to serious burns. Inhalation causes irritation to the nose, mouth and lungs causing headache, coughing, nausea, vomiting. Ingestion is fatal.
Pool Chemicals: Some may be corrosive and hazardous to human health. In concentrated amounts these chemicals can produce toxic gases that can burn the eyes and skin.
Roach Killer: An acutely toxic pesticide suspected to be carcinogenic. Inhalation can cause headache, dizziness, nausea and/or twitching. Affects the nervous system.
Spot Remover: Fumes are acutely toxic and carcinogenic. Symptoms of inhalation may include dizziness, sleepiness, nausea, loss of appetite and disorientation.
Toilet Bowl Cleaner: Extremely toxic and corrosive. Inhalation can be a strong irritant to the eyes and respiratory tract. Contact with the skin can create burning sensations

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Cucumbers

1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.

2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.

5 Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!

6.. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.


9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.


13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

The Market is Moving

Products we put on our bodies, and especially products marketed for babies and children, should not contain chemicals that pose potential healthy risks. Yet, in the United States, it is perfectly legal for personal care products to contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals that are linked to harmful health effects. The United States lags behind many other parts of the world in safety standards for personal care products. The European Union has banned more that 1,100 chemicals from cosmetics because they are know or highly suspected of causing cancer, genetic mutation or reproductive harm. In contrast, the United States bans or restricts only 11 chemical from cosmetics. According to the FDA.

FDA Food and Dug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the safety of personal care products in the U.S., but lacks basic authority needed to ensure that products are actually safe. The FDA cannot require companies to test products for safety before they are sold, does not systematically review the safety of ingredients and does not set limits for common harmful contaminants in products. The FDA also does not require contaminants to be listed on product ingredient labels. As a result, consumers have no way of knowing if their products contain toxic contaminants.

Bleach Cleaner

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Bleach Cleaner
Contact with eyes can cause severe irritation, burns. Fumes can be a strong irritant to eyes, throat and lungs. Ingestion can cause injury to the esophagus, stomach resulting in nausea and vomiting.


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Childrens Bath Products

Children's bath products are often marketed as sage and gentle. However, laboratory tests commissioned by the Compagin for Safe Cosmetics found these products are commonly contaminated with formaldehyde or 1,4-dioxane - and, in many cases. both.

These two chemicals, linked to cancer and skin allergies, are anything but safe and gentle and are completely unregulated in children's bath products.

61% of the children's bath products tested for this report contained both formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane