SUMMARY:

• • Cleaning with chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectants, and ammonia can damage your lung capacity as much as smoking.
• • EcoSense^® uses safer ingredients to help lessen your family's toxic load.

The cleaning products you use can contribute to your family's wellness in a significant way. That's because many of the most prevalent cleaning products use ingredients that can be harmful to your health. The list of harmful ingredients is a long one, but some of the most common include chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectants, and ammonia.

So, why are these ingredients harmful? Google any one of the 3 ingredients listed above and it won't take long to find some pretty scary side effects caused by each one. In fact, a peer-reviewed 20-year longitudinal study that tracked over 6,000 people who used common household cleaners at least once per week made some eye-opening conclusions, including:

• 1. Using common household cleaners regularly over 20 years is as damaging to lung capacity as smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for the same time period!
• 2. Women were more negatively affected than men.
• 3. Chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectants, and ammonia appear to be the primary culprits.
• 4. Women who regularly use common cleaners have increased rates of asthma.
• 5. Household cleaning is as harmful as occupational cleaning.
• 6. Liquid and spray cleaners are equally harmful.
• 7. The damage to lung capacity gets worse over time.

Yikes! So, how do I avoid these ingredients if they are in so many products? Great question! We have pulled together a handy chart which you can access below. It outlines what types of products contain chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectants, and ammonia, and how those ingredients sometimes appear on a label. And, we have some great news-you won't find harmful ingredients like chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectants, or ammonia in ANY EcoSense products.

Here's to lessening your family's toxic load!