Making Your Own Green Household Cleaners
February 5th, 2010 at 10:23Do you wish you could pitch all those harsh commercial cleaning products and use something “greener”? Here is a video explaining how you can make your own cleaners out of ordinary things found in just about every Waterloo Region home.
Recent studies have compared the incidence of asthma in homes where commercial household cleaners are used on a regular basis to homes where such cleaners are not used. In one study the researchers found the product users were up to twice as likely to develop asthma.
In spite of what the television commercials say, household cleaners are not the pleasant things they are made out to be. Most contain harsh chemicals and ingredients that harm the environment in one way or another. They also contribute to things like asthma and allergies – especially among children.
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