Spring Clean Your Home Naturally

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Spring is finally here! And this time of year always makes me want to jump into spring cleaning as I get ready for summer, how about you? However, as I’ve written about before, conventional cleaning products can be full of toxins. So how do you spring clean your home naturally? While there are safer cleaning…

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Are Your Scented Household Products Toxic?

Scented Household Products

I’ve written about this before, in my post Are Your Cleaning Products Toxic?. However, my experience this past week inspired me to write about it again. So many household and cleaning products seem to be scented these days. You can’t go to the store to buy something as basic as garbage bags without them being…

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Are Your Cleaning Products Toxic?

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When we were kids, one of our friend’s moms was a fastidious housekeeper. She was always cleaning and polishing everything in sight. Their house was always sparkling clean. But it also smelled of lemon pledge, bleach, Windex, and 409, among other noxious fumes. I remember the smell of 409 gave me a terrible headache. I…

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Fragrance: The New Second-Hand Smoke?

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Love the fragrance of your favorite perfume or shampoo? Unfortunately, scents can be deceiving. There’s a good chance that while you are inhaling that luscious scent, you may actually be harming your body. Is fragrance the new secondhand smoke? In high school, I used to love the scent of Herbal Essence shampoo, and Gee Your…

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