Many cleaning products available on the market contain “everyday” carcinogens like formaldehyde and napthelene, reproductive toxins and hormone disruptors, ingredients that cause liver, kidney and brain damage, allergies and asthma. One cost saving option is to create a simple non-toxic cleaning kits from ingredients you probably already have on hand.
There are a host of products, other than those used for basic cleaning, that often contain carcinogenics. Care2 shares this list, from Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic (New Society Publishers, 2007) by Liz Armstrong et al, offering a list of items you can simply eliminate from your home. Read more
