Cleaning your home with toxic synthetic chemicals can have adverse effects on your health. Here’s a detailed look at ten ways these harmful substances can impact your body and how switching to natural alternatives like Thieves Household Cleaner, baking soda, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and essential oils can benefit you.
**Respiratory Issues**
**Toxic Impact:**
Chemical-laden cleaning products can release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can irritate the respiratory system and exacerbate conditions like asthma.
**Natural Alternative:**
Mix Thieves Household Cleaner with water in a spray bottle for surfaces. The blend of clove, lemon, cinnamon bark, eucalyptus, and rosemary essential oils in Thieves supports respiratory health.
**Skin Irritation**
**Toxic Impact:**
Harsh chemicals can cause dermatitis, redness, and allergic reactions.
**Natural Alternative:**
Create a gentle scrub by combining 5 drops of Pine essential oil, baking soda and water into a paste. It’s perfect for scrubbing sinks, ovens, and tubs without irritating your skin.
**Endocrine Disruption**
**Toxic Impact:**
Many cleaning products contain phthalates that can interfere with hormone function.
**Natural Alternative:**
Use distilled white vinegar diluted with water to clean glass and countertops. Vinegar is non-toxic and does not disrupt hormones. Interestingly, my mother use to use white vinegar diluted with water and a newspaper to clean windows without streaks. I use Thieves Household Cleaner for all my glass surfaces, stove top, windows, mirrors, everything. It works great!
**Eye Irritation**
**Toxic Impact:**
Chemical cleaners can cause burning, redness, and tearing in the eyes.
**Natural Alternative:**
Employ hydrogen peroxide for sanitizing surfaces like cutting boards. It kills germs without causing eye irritation.
**Neurological Issues**
**Toxic Impact:**
Prolonged exposure to neurotoxic chemicals in cleaners can affect brain function and mood.
**Natural Alternative:**
Diffuse lavender or lemon essential oils to freshen your air naturally, eliminating the need for synthetic air fresheners that could impact your nervous system.
**Allergies and Sensitivities**
**Toxic Impact:**
Fragrances and dyes in synthetic cleaners can trigger allergies and sensitivities.
**Natural Alternative:**
Infuse baking soda with a few drops of lavender essential oil for carpet cleaning. It’s hypoallergenic and safe for the whole family.
**Toxic Load**
**Toxic Impact:**
Continuous exposure to toxic chemicals can accumulate in your system, increasing your overall toxic load and potentially inhibiting liver function.
**Natural Alternative:**
Thieves Household Cleaner can clean almost everything in your home, reducing your overall exposure to harmful chemicals and aiding in maintaining a healthy liver function.
**Gastrointestinal Issues**
**Toxic Impact:**
Ingesting residues from chemical cleaners that linger on dishes and surfaces can lead to stomach aches and gastrointestinal problems.
**Natural Alternative:**
Use a mixture of vinegar and water to clean your kitchen surfaces and dishes. Vinegar is food-safe and eliminates residue that could lead to gastrointestinal issues.
**Headaches**
**Toxic Impact:**
Strong chemical odors can trigger headaches and migraines.
**Natural Alternative:**
Create a room spray with distilled water and Peppermint essential oil. It refreshes your space without causing headaches.
**Environmental Impact**
**Toxic Impact:**
Synthetic chemicals can contaminate water supplies and harm wildlife.
**Natural Alternative:**
Opt for cleaning with hydrogen peroxide. It breaks down into water and oxygen, leaving no environmental pollutants behind.
Benefits of Natural Cleaners
**Safety:** Natural cleaners like Thieves Household Cleaner are free from harmful chemicals, making them safe for children, pets, and sensitive individuals.
**Health:** Using essential oils for cleaning can support overall well-being. For example, Lemon oil has mood-boosting properties.
**Environment:** These natural solutions are biodegradable and environmentally friendly, reducing your carbon footprint.
**Cost:** Many natural cleaning solutions are cost-effective. Ingredients like vinegar and baking soda are inexpensive and versatile.
Switching to natural alternatives from toxic synthetic chemicals not only benefits your body's health but also contributes positively to our environment and overall well-being.
Want to know more? I have a class for that! Let me know what you're interested in learning about and I'll pull all of the information together for you and 10 of your friends and family. Don't forget great aunt Sally!
Toxins are all around us, in our environments, on our food that we buy, and all of the products that come in to our house. I can help you figure out where to start and how to figure out what products you're using that are full of *ick* and need to be tossed in the trash! We can replace them with toxin free cleaners, laundry soap, shampoo, conditioner, dishwasher soap, pet shampoo, and more! I can show you how to do this without breaking the bank, too. There is a wonderfully frugal way to purchase these toxin free products and I'd love to show you all about it! Just go to the top of this blog page and click the "Contact Me" button. Send me an email or a text message letting me know your name, how you found me, and what you are interested in learning about.
I'd love to help you!
Love & God Bless,
Regina Graham
I am not a doctor. I cannot diagnose, prescribe, or treat anyone
for any disease or sickness.
My husband uses oils!
There! I said it! LOL
I just wanted to be the first (2nd, 3rd, 4th,...100th) to say, "Essential oils are for E.V.E.R.Y.B.O.D.Y. no matter what!"
That said, my hubby has been a part of all this wonderful exciting essential oil ride with me and he's found some oils that he's loved!
Evergreen Essence we've found he's loved the scent! It's more than just a scent, though. There are wonderful properties to these oils that work so well for our bodies and he's learning about all the wonderfulness, too!
Another one he's really loving is Northern Lights Black Spruce! He's enjoying these 2 scents alternately in the den when he's in there doing whatever he does.
He uses them for practical reasons, too. For example, he gets ingrown toenails, and uses Lavender to help with the healing process after he trims them.
He also uses Lemon essential oil to get paint splatters and sticky stuff off things.
There is so much more he uses essential oils for, but I just wanted to share 4 of those wonderful oils he uses.
Whatever your manly man needs, there's probably an oil for that.
I absolutely love that my hubby is using more natural products. He keeps learning about it all and enjoying the journey!
Do you have a manly man? Try some oils!
Love & God Bless,
Regina
I am not a doctor. I cannot diagnose, prescribe, or treat anyone
for any disease or sickness.
