Do you use air fresheners in your home?
Below is a list of what a majority of common air fresheners
have.
Remember, the government does not require a complete listing of
ingredients on these chemicals and the listings can be very vague. Here are just
a few ingredients your air freshener can contain:
Butane, propane, ammonia, phenol, benzene, phthalates, formaldehyde
Here are some of the known health problems air fresheners can
cause:
Allergies, asthma, skin, eye & lung irritation,
depression, hyperness and ADHD type behaviors in children, central nervous
system damage, liver damage, and even links to cancer.
Scary, isn’t it?
Some of the fresheners used that are aerosols can also make
your home more flammable.
Think about it, when you spray a flammable liquid
like Lysol on your furniture, your drapes, your carpet, where do the chemicals
go? They go right on and into those fabrics making them more flammable should a
fire ever break out in your home.
Plus, that can you keep in the cabinet will
end up being a bomb going off should fire ever reach it, causing fire to spread
more quickly and making a bad scenario even more deadly.
For the non-aerosol type sprays like the Febreeze, is it any
wonder the significant rise in asthma goes hand in hand with the rise of using
products like this? The majority of allergies and asthma can be traced back to
chemicals used in the home.
The chemicals used to make the fragrances are extremely
toxic and are regulated very little to none by the government. This means you
are making your house smell good at the risk of your health and especially the
health of your children.
Manufacturers have used manipulative marketing tactics to convince
the majority of Americans that they need to have some kind of fragrances in
their homes as they obviously stink.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like a clean smelling home, but I
do it in ways that not only benefits
our health, but also saves us a ton of money!
Here’s what we do:
- Open the windows!
This
changes the air in the house, removing some germs floating around, it removes
odors that seem to accumulate overnight that we call “bed smell”. You know the
odor I’m talking about.
It only drops the temperature about one to two degrees
is all, so it’s not a significant cost for the furnace to catch back up and if
you don’t keep it hot in there to begin with, it’s no big deal.
- Keep a clean house
- Use natural scents from Nature
Flowers, fruit, pine cones and pine needles, leaves, branches,
most anything from Nature will bring a light scent into your home that won’t
over power the room.
Of course, if someone in your home has seasonal allergies,
then bringing Goldenrod in or some other type of flower might not be the best
thing, but experiment a little. Pinterest is full of great ideas on even ways
to simmer natural items to make the scents even more powerful.
- Use natural made products
I have even been known to use our disinfectant spray, Basic-G on really smelly areas
like the dog bed, if I don’t have time to wash it right then. It does an
amazing job!
There you go. Easy and most importantly safe ways to
deodorize your home without risking your health.
Besides, you want people to
enjoy coming into your home, not gag on the “perfumy” smell and leave with an
asthma attack! And isn’t the health of your family more important?
Thank you for taking the time to learn of new ways to freshen
the air inside your home!
Julie
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