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Green Cleaners: Cleaning your home without chemicals

Everyone seems keen to be clean these days, and the burgeoning range of personal hygiene products—from shower gels to sanitary wear—is rivalled only by that of household cleaning products.
To fulfil the increasingly ambitious claims for their products, manufacturers rely on combinations of chemical compounds that are often highly toxic. But if a cleanser can instantly strip a kitchen tile of accumulated grease, what might it do to your body’s cells or to the natural en-vironment?
The average household is home to more than 60 hazardous products using hundreds of chemicals, mostly derived from petrochemicals. As these products don’t biodegrade, or do so only very slowly, they are dangerous on two levels: when being used, by absorption through the skin or inhalation via the lungs; and when they accumulate in the environment and enter the food chain.
Chemicals that enter the body or flow into our waterways can linger for months. Given that the average household discharges 40...

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