How many cleansers do you have in your home? One of my pet peeves is the number of cleaning products that are marketed to people. Do you have a soap for the dishes, another for floors, shampoo for your hair, the dog, and on and on? I’ve narrowed down my soap collection to just Castile soap. It’s so versatile that you can use it to bathe a baby or clean the toilet. You don’t need every new cleaning product on the market. Not only are they environmentally unfriendly, but they don’t really clean any better than homemade recipes. Many people hesitate to use simple home-made cleansers because they feel it’s not really clean if you don’t use strong chemicals. In fact, the opposite is often true. Commercials cleansers often leave behind a residue for the dirt to cling to and the surface gets dirtier quicker.

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Have you noticed on the labels of many cleaning products there is a telephone number to call poison control as well as what symptoms to look out for in case of an allergic reaction? You're basically cleaning your home with a toxic substance. Actually, it's not an allergic reaction. It's a poisonous reaction. It's ironic that cleaning your house can compromise your health, but many of the most popular cleaning products are responsible for calls to the poison control center.

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