Choose Organic... Because What You Don't Know Can Hurt You!

Do you know what chemicals are in your household cleaners from disinfectants to laundry detergents?

Disinfectants contain a number of volitile chemicals that are dangerous to inhale. The ingredient most frequently found in disinfectants is cresol, a chemical easily absorbed through the skin and througg the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.

Cresolcan cause damage to the liver, kidneys, lungs, pancreas, and spleen and can also affect the central nervous system, resulting in suck common symptoms as depression, irritability, and hyperactivity.

Experts warn that there is danger of poisoning by both ingestion and inhalation. Disinfectants pose a hazrd even in their closed containers, since vapors can leak out and build up to high levels in closed rooms.

Disinfectants Many Also Contain Other Toxic Germ Killers

Phenolcauses headaches, nausea, fatigue, and some cases after prolonged use, paralysis and coma.

Dioxinwas the ingredient in Agent Orange that causes cancer, birth defects, liver skin damage, headaches, blindness, nerve damage, etc.

Bleach another product used to disinfect is a chlorine based product known specifically to cause breast cancer. It also burns lung tissue on every exposure.

Ammonia also burns the lung tissue on every exposure and don't forget that the combination of any product with ammonia and another with bleach causes a deadly gas to form. Did you know that on the back of many dish detergents it says, "DO NOT MIX WITH BLEACH". This indicates there is ammonia in them. therefore, every time you stand over your dishwasher washing dishes you are inhaling ammonia.

"The Non-toxic Home and Office", by Debra Lynn Dadd, Tarcher/Putnam Books 1992.


Tide, Bold, Cheel, and Oxydolare known to contain NTA's (Nitrilotrisacetate) which is a known cancer causing agent other products that contain NTA's are soaps such as, Zest, Ivory, Camay.

Laundry Detergentsuse optical brightener to "whiten and brighten" which are in reality small pieces of glass that reflect light. They are small pieces of glass that reflect light. they are introduced into the air and laundry detergents also contain lye which is very caustic on hands, lungs and the environment.

Dishwasher detergents contain phosphates and bleach and the bleach leaves a residue on the dishes. USA Weekend Jan 1, 1993

Air freshenersEveryone wants their house to smell clean and fresh...but did you know that "air fresheners interefere with your ability to smell offensive odors wither by releasing a nerve-deadining agent or by coating your nasal pasages with an undetectable oil film.?"

Commercial Deodorizers may contain toxic chemicals such as methoxychlor, a chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide that accumulates in fat cells and over stimulated the central nervous system. likewise, P-Dichlorobenzene, napthalene and formaldehyde, all of which are central nervous system depressants, can also be found in air fresheners."

Nncy Green Sokol, Poisoning Our Children, Noble Press, 1991