Non-tox living
Make your own home cleaning products for a chemical-free home
A collection of naturopathic resources to enhance your living environment.
Chemicals present in our environment can be absorbed through our skin, inhaled, or ingested, leading to potential health complications. By reducing our exposure to these chemicals, we can safeguard our health and minimise the risk of adding to the toxic burden of modern living.
Opting for natural, chemical-free alternatives helps to maintain a clean and healthy living environment, protecting not only ourselves and our families but our animals and environment also. Although we don’t know the long term effects of exposure to environmental toxins, short term studies have shown that they are harmful and we should all be radically minimising their use in our homes.
The research confirms some of the problems I see in clinic correlating chronic ill health with environmental toxins. These include respiratory problems, allergies, hormone disruptions, and even certain types of cancers. These chemicals can be found in everyday products, such as cleaning agents, personal care items, and even in the air we breathe from dust re-circled in air conditioning, micro-metal particles as well as gasses from carpets and upholstery and mould spores.
Whilst we can’t control exposure to environmental pollutants when we are out and about, we can certainly almost eliminate them from our homes and feel empowered about our health.
In addition to choosing low-tox paints, cookware and food storage, furniture and furnishings, ensuring correct ventilation and mitigating NNEMF, eliminating toxic home-cleaning products is an absolute must.
Did you know that using bleach as a cleaning agent is so toxic it has been likened to smoking 20 cigarettes per day? I find it wild that many household cleaning products are still in circulation given how poisonous they are to human health as well as to the environment.
I have created the attached resource for you to keep. I make these products myself, they are super easy and simple to make.
Trust me, you won’t go back to buying commercial cleaning products ever again!