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: • 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! • Women were more negatively affected than men. • Chlorine bleach, quaternary disinfectants, and ammonia appear to be the primary culprits. • Women who regularly use common cleaners have increased rates of asthma. • Household cleaning is as harmful as occupational cleaning. • Liquid and spray cleaners are equally harmful. • 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!
QUATERNARY DISINFECTANTS (Primarily found in disinfecting and all-purpose cleaners) Benzalkonium chloride (BZK, BACs), Alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride
CHLORINE BLEACH (Primarily found in
AMMONIA (Primarily found in glass cleaners)
bathroom, dish, laundry, and all-purpose cleaners)
Sodium hypochlorite
Ammonium hydroxide
Bleaches stains to mask discoloration, but doesn't actually remove the stains.
Evaporative cleaner that cuts through grease
Kills germs
Can permanently damage skin, attacks the membranes in your respiratory system, and can create toxic gases when mixed with other cleaning products
Can be corrosive to skin, eyes, and lungs; erodes tissue; irritates nose and throat.
Linked to the development of asthma
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