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Is Your Home Earth-Friendly &
Child Safe?
It's safe to say that most things that are harmful to the environment are also harmful to the health of children. Every child deserves a healthy environment to experience, and a healthy environment is a good indicator that our children will grow healthy.
Before you grab your favorite toxic brew of cleaning solutions and head into your kid's bathroom to do battle with mildew and soap scum in the shower and fingerprints on the mirror, consider the following:
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According to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), more than 2/3 of streams tested were polluted with breakdown products of detergents and disinfectants.
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The EPA has concluded that U.S. households cause more water pollution than all of industry combined, through the improper disposal and overuse of chemical cleaners, pesticides and herbicides.
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Even when used properly, cleaners are rinsed down the drain and eventually released with the effluent of wastewater treatment plants or from septic tanks into our ground and surface waters.
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Every year more than one million children are accidentally poisoned at home, and 70 percent of those cases involve substances used commonly in most homes such as cleaning products.
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Recent studies have shown that exposure to household cleaning chemicals increases the likelihood of asthma among children.
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Research has shown that women exposed to glycol ethers (an ingredient found in glass cleaners and all-purpose spray cleaners) in their work environments were significantly more likely to have children with birth defects such as neural tube defects and cleft lip.
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While scientists have known for a long time that high levels of exposure to some chemicals can be linked to certain chronic diseases, research now suggests that even minute traces of some chemicals may affect processes like gene activation, hormone production and brain development in newborns.
What you can do
Make your own earth-friendly and child-safe cleaning products. Homemade cleaning solutions using common and safe ingredients such as vinegar, baking soda and borax are very effective and inexpensive cleaners. An internet search for “earth friendly child safe cleaning recipes” will result in more than a million web pages! You could spend years reading through all of the available recipes, the majority of which are the same “age-old” recipes calling for natural ingredients found in most kitchen pantries.
Remembering the ingredients and instructions for making homemade cleaning and gardening recipes can be difficult, as can be remembering where you wrote them down and stored them. That's precisely why we created “U-Mix-It Safe Spray”. Our 16 oz. All-purpose spray bottles (made from 25% recycled plastic) have easy-to-mix cleaning and garden pest control recipes printed directly onto the plastic of each bottle, where they will never wash off or fade away, and are always available for quick and easy reference. Plus, having a designated spray bottle with an attractive earth-friendly label sitting around the house serves as a great reminder that there are safer alternatives available to tackle your everyday household chores.
You can view and purchase U-Mix-It Safe Spray here.
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*To order U-Mix-It Safe Spray® in bulk, for outreach/promotional purposes, please contact us by phone or
email for volume pricing.
Have questions? Call 530-897-0274 or email us.
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