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Cleaning Ingredients to Avoid
Do your best to avoid cleaning products containing these ingredients:
- formaldehyde (an embalmer, found in plug-in air fresheners, also found in car exhaust and tobacco smoke)
- silica (a carcinogen found in some powdered cleansers)
- NTA (nitrilotriacetic acid, a harmful replacement for phosphates, found in some powdered laundry soap)
- NPE (nonylphenol ethoxylate, found in spray cleaners, degreasers, carpet stain removers and laundry detergents; may disrupt body hormones)
- ethylene glycol (found in window/glass cleaners, spot removes, silver and jewellery polish)
- chlorine (common household bleach – it’s still toxic – found in laundry soaps, automatic dishwasher soap, gels and powders) Did you know that the steam escaping from your dishwasher releases harmful chlorine fumes? Over one million North American children a year are accidentally poisoned by chlorinated dishwasher soap.
- phosphates (bad for lakes and rivers, found in automatic dishwasher soap, gels and powders) Canada has already banned phosphates in laundry detergents, but only Manitoba has passed a law eliminating them from dishwasher detergents.
- EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, used as a water softener in detergents, to preserve packaged foods and to stabilize some cosmetics; also used in soft drinks to keep other ingredients from forming into the carcinogen benzene, and in recycling to recover lead from batteries)
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