Reduce Toxins in Your Home
10 Ways to Reduce Toxins in your Home and Office – Green Inside and Out
Covers pesticides, plastics, body care, cleaning, clothing furnishings, paints, and cookware.
10 Ways to Reduce Toxins in your Daily Environment - Sustainability Institute at Molloy College
Covers pesticides, cleaners, dry cleaners, plastics, body care products, paints, fire retardants, carpets, mold, and cookware.
Recipes for Non-Toxic Cleaning - Eco-Cycle.org
Many store-bought cleaners contain harsh chemicals that are bad for your health and for the environment. Replace these by making your own cleaning agents using everyday, non-toxic ingredients found in your kitchen such as vinegar, baking soda, or borax.
Top Green Cleaning Products - Environmental Working Group
Find a list of top-rated green cleaning products evaluated by the Environmental Working Group
Vinegar - an eco-friendly alternative to many chemicals - GreenLivingTips.com
Vinegar is cheap, non-toxic, and earth-friendly. Replace harsh and toxic chemicals used around your home with vinegar, it can be used for a variety of purposes. Use it in your home for a variety of purposes, such as cleaning counter-tops, toilets, removing calcium deposits in the shower, weed control, etc.
Protecting Your Household from 1,4-Dioxane Exposure - Citizen's Campaign for the Environment
1,4-Dioxane is a hidden carcinogen lurking in everyday products such as shampoo, body wash, and lotions.
Toxins in Plastics - Green Inside and Out
Plastics contain harmful chemicals that disrupt our bodies’ hormones, nervous system, endocrine system, and reproductive system. The widely used material Styrofoam, for example, contains the chemical styrene which is listed as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” by the National Toxicology Program.
Toxins in Dry Cleaning - Green Inside and Out
Perchloroethylene, or Perc, is a petrochemical solvent that is commonly used by dry cleaners, but several federal agencies have categorized Perc as a likely human carcinogen. Learn about the alternatives to Perc that are available today.
Choose loose tea instead of bagged tea. Some tea bags are made of plastic, such as nylon, thermoplastic, PVC, or polypropylene. In addition, paper tea bags are frequently treated with epichlorophydrin, which hydrolyzes into a carcinogen when it comes in contact with water, implicated in infertility and suppressed immune function.
Effects of Common Pesticides - Perfect Earth Project
Common pesticides have been linked to birth defects, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, liver and kidney damage, autism, Parkinson's disease non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, brain cancer, and endocrine disruption. The active ingredient in Roundup (the most used pesticide in the USA) has been listed as a "probable" human carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
Tips to Avoid Flame Retardants - Environmental Working Group
Flame retardants are found in everyday products such as furniture, rugs, electronics, building materials, baby products, etc. These chemicals have been linked to cancer and hormone disruption, as well as deficits in motor skills, attention and IQ in children.