This subject is very much at the heart and core of this entire site and has been since I began it almost 4 years ago. But an occasional reminder is a good thing. Melaleuca themselves are featuring the topic this month so I don’t mind following their lead and doing the same thing.
I don’t need to duplicate their effort, just simply refer you to it as it includes a useful chart highlighting just three of the highly toxic chemicals found in almost every cleaning product sold in retail stores. They also mention that an online search for any of these three toxins will quickly reveal how scary these chemicals really are.
Most people probably don’t think of something like the leading brands of glass cleaner as being dangerous but they are! Using these products as little as once a week was found to be just as harmful as smoking a pack of cigarettes every day!
The one point I would add since when I began this site back in the middle of 2019 and it was pre pandemic, exposure to these toxins has escalated exponentially and I am quite sure that future studies, despite the risk of being viewed as scare mongering, are going to reveal some even more tragic insights. For myself personally, having been free from this tyranny for nearly two decades and now being more sensitive to being re-subjected to it, I find it very assaulting to spend much time in buildings that have been meticulously “sterilized” for the sake of so called safety.
I should end by emphasizing the obvious and stating that Melaleuca products do NOT contain these toxic chemicals (very much like the “Never Ever!” principle from last month’s post), and, that Melaleuca products outperform those toxic products at about the same, and often significantly lower, costs.
Melaleuca’s Safer for Your Home blog also has some great videos…