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Chemicals to Avoid in Cleaning Products
By Mark Schauss | March 28, 2008
Which ones should you stay away from? This question comes up a lot when I lecture on environmental health issues. Here are a few.
- Ammonia
- Chlorine
- Monoethanolamine (MEA)
- Glycol ethers
- Alkyphenol ethoxylates
- Phthalates
- Triclosan
Bottom line is you need to switch to the product lines that are greener. Even the people who made Clorox have come up with a green line of products called Green Works (wish they would just dump the others but it is a good start). Other products that are safer cleaners include Simple Green and Method. There are many more, you just have to look around. If more of us did that, industry would follow and drop their old toxic lines and make better and safer products.
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