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Would you rub lye (potassium hydroxide) on a baby’s bottom, or apply to your face? 

Would you apply sodium hydroxide to a baby’s skin?  It causes 75% of all caustic injury to the esophagus of kids under 5 years old and can cause burns in tissues—eyes, skin, mouth and throat. 

What about brushing your teeth with it?

Would you spray Monoethanolamine (MEA) into the air of your home?  It is a very hazardous irritant to eyes and may produce severe irritation and tissue damage to eyes, mouth and respiratory tract. It is linked to Asthma.

Would you bathe a baby in formaldehyde or wash your body and hands with it?

Of course you wouldn’t, at least not intentionally.  Yet everyday in homes across America people are doing just that.

Today there are more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals.

Dr. Philip Landrigan, Professor of Community and Preventative Medicine at Mount SinaiSchool of Medicine, said less than 20% of the estimated chemicals manufactured in the past 50 years have been assessed for their neurotoxicity

Children, because of their size and more future years of life, have a higher risk of early and prolonged exposure to chemicals than adults.

The National Research Council (NRC), which is part of the National Academy of Sciences, conducted a study of 100 random chemicals. The study found that nearly 78 percent of these chemicals lacked even minimum toxicity standards.

Sources: U.S. EPA, New Chemicals Program; Landrigan, P.J., et al, (2006). The national children’s study: a 21-year prospective study of 100,000 American children. Pediatrics, 118(5), 2173-2186.

For specific products log on to: http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm a government website maintained by the Department of Human Services.

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In 2008 and 2009, Shaklee was named to the Top 20 Retail Partner List by the EPA Green Power Partnership.   The list goes on.

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You’ve just cleaned your house and have a good feeling that everything is clean and fresh.  Or is it?

Sorry to spoil all those warm fuzzy feelings, but you may have made your home dirtier.

Would you let your kids play with toxic chemicals?  Then why do you let your baby crawl all over a floor that has been wiped with them?  There are more dangerous things than a little juice or jelly on the floor.

Take a look at these statistics:

Over 90% of poisons exposures happen at home.

Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involve in poisoning.

Many common cleaners and even air fresheners contain organic pollutants and are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out.

Spend 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls and you could inhale three times the “acute one-hour exposure limit” for glycol ether-containing products.

Increase the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common chronic childhood disease, by using cleaners that give off fumes linked to the risk of getting asthma.

1 in 13 school age children have asthma.  From 1980-1994, the rate of children under five increased more than 160%.

Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air than adults, making them substantially more vulnerable to chemical toxicants that are present in water, food or air.

If you have an average home in the U.S., you generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each hear in the form of toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach products.

Educate yourself about what you bring into your home.

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Take action and make your home the safest, healthiest, cleanest place in the world and “Welcome Healthy”  into your home.

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