Green Cleaning Supplies Does Not Refer To Cleaning Products That Are Colored Green

By Lissa T. Heitt


When you visualize green cleaning supplies do you automatically get the image of containers full of green colored liquids with childproof safety caps and labels full of fine print warnings and cautions? In recent years our society has been using the term green to infer environmentally friendly. The future of our environment, our health and also our children depends on our efforts to live green and the use of environmental friendly and safe products that has been determined through research and studies performed to produce these informative facts.

The health, welfare and safety of our families especially children and pets are already a big concern for most individuals. This makes it simple for us to pay attention to any hazardous materials or chemicals that we possess in our homes. Special promotions have occurred over the years to protect children from exposure to household chemicals with the implementation of safety locks to secure cabinet doors to special stickers warning children not to touch certain products.

Eventually we became smarter and realized that safely locking away these hazardous chemicals was not enough. As we used these products we are exposing ourselves and our loved ones to hazardous vapors that could aggravate asthma and breathing problems, induce headaches and probably lead to cancer. Not only we are breathing in the strong harmful vapors, but did you ever stop to consider that when your food comes in contact with the counter-top in your kitchen that harbors dangerous chemicals, like those chemicals that are added to industrial chemicals.

Our environment is receiving damage as these noxious chemicals start to appear in our lakes and streams, poisoning wildlife and even leeching into soil impacting the growth of vegetation and trees. As we use these dangerous chemical products we are damaging our environment and start to kill off the earth before the promotion of green cleaning supplies. All this was occurring with a huge price tag including the hundreds of dollars we spend each year on commercial cleaning products.

If you are not yet convinced to change to green cleaning supplies after reading this information, pay attention to some additional information. All of the money that you previously spent on cleaning products can now be used for something else, perhaps even some fun since the natural materials that can be used for cleaning are likely already in your home. Natural things like lemon juice, vinegar, coffee grounds and baking soda are very effective for cleaning and also safe to use. This is the new way to clean today, and there are available green cleaning services to hire to perform the cleaning for you. This is the true meaning of going green.




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