Children's Car seats
We've found it's best to remove the car seat from the vehicle, with babies and toddlers eating, drinking, and just being kids, their seats are usually a big mess! Once out;
Our Amazing, Incredible Dishwashers - actually need a little love and care, mostly because it will help them do a better job for us.
Of course, there is an easy way to do this, just purchase a dishwasher cleaning solution next time you're doing your shopping.
But there are consequences to using these solutions -
Our skin has about 1.5 trillion bacteria living on it. Our gut has in the region 50 trillion bacteria living in it.
These organisms, ourmicrobiome, can be as important as our own cells.
5 Simple cost-effective tips to help protect your gut microbes.
What are Toxic Cleaning Products?
Toxic products contain one or more ingredients that can cause health or environmental harm. Many chemicals in cleaning products are considered toxic because they’ve been shown to cause ill health effects such as, developmental problems, respiratory disease, vomiting, nervous system disorders, endocrine disruption, obesity, skin conditions & burns.
Some can even be fatal if absorbed into the skin, inhaled or ingested. Labels on poisonous products such as “warning”, “danger” or caution” are definitely a red flag.
So now you're probably wondering, what can I clean with, that is non toxic and wont impact my health?
We've compiled a list of the products to avoid and non toxic replacements for a safer, healthier home.
If you grew up in a household anything like mine then you will have been programmed from a very young age to believe that things like bleach, antiseptic and other harsh-smelling disinfectant cleaners are the best way to clean your home.
The problem with this is that chemical disinfectants are designed to kill germs instead of remove them, like soap does, and when you kill germs, the few left behind learn to adapt to disinfectants, eventually becoming superbugs!
Do you want to hear something that is both fascinating and freaky? If you put a frog in a pot of tepid water and then turn the element on, the water heats up slowly, and so, quietly & over time, the frog ends up being cooked alive, because the change is so gradual she doesn't realise the danger….until its simply too late.(Be advised, no frogs were harmed in the writing of this piece).