Many of us do not realize how toxic our daily household detergents can be! 

They contain chemicals, harsh preservatives, irritants, and pollutants that affect not only sensitive individuals, pregnant women, the elderly, pets, children, and wildlife, but all of us, too! Yet, they are sold in regular grocery stores as harmless products.

 

Conventional Floor Cleaners 

Conventional floor detergents contain toxic ingredients and chemicals that are cheap to produce, and harsh on us, the planet, and the environment. They are linked with asthma and respiratory damage, skin allergies and irritations, development, and reproductive toxicity, posing cancer, and environmental hazards. 

To keep our house a healthy place, we need to ditch conventional cleaning products and use natural ones! ​
❌ ​Besides many popular brands such as Clorox, Ajax, Lysol, Mr. Clean, Arm & Hammer, Up&Up, and Windex, with products rated F- toxic by ewg.org, there are many "greenwashing" products around.

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Greenwashing Floor Cleaners

❌ Greenwashing companies are filling their “natural" products with synthetic petrochemical, oleochemical emollients, thickeners, detergents, fragrances, and preservatives. Brands such as Method, Safeway, Green Works (a Clorox company), Babyganics, and Mrs.Meyer’s are still classified as toxic by ewg.org, with products classified as D and F. ​

❌ Many "natural cleaners" contain controversial ingredients mixed in their almost natural formula such as preservatives, dyes, fragrances, surfactants, bleach, alcohol, quats, hydrogen peroxide, or any other harmful chemicals. 

Methylisothiazolinone:  preservative skin sensitizer, linked to allergies, lung, neurological, and organ toxicity. Plus it is very toxic to aquatic life. Check at the bottom of the page the greenwashing brands.

 

👉Many of you already know that I don’t recommend

❌ Branch Basics: contains sodium phytate, responsible for damaging the aquatic environment! 

❌ Force of Nature: contains Hypochlorous Acid HOCl, an acid that forms when chlorine dissolves in water, and Sodium Hydroxide NaOH, aka Caustic soda!!

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Since there is no government regulation of the words: “organic” or “ natural.” ​We need to buy organic products and to spot them we need to carefully read the labels. That’s why we need to have the right information that allows us to buy a better detergent to protect us, our family, our pets, and the environment.  Use your nose and eyes. Read the ingredients list. Avoid fragranced products and colored liquid products.

To keep our house a healthy place, we need to ditch conventional or greenwashing cleaning products and use natural ones!

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Organic Floor Cleaners

Many of you asked me for a safer floor detergent recommendation! Here is a ewg.org guide for flooring
Right! They are not many natural options on the market, and that’s why I was determined to find the best, non-toxic floor detergents on the market!
👉I collected the approved brands and they are listed on this page. At the bottom of the page, there are the not recommended brands. 

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They are a just few natural and organic floor cleaners that are safer, not greenwashing, and transparent. 

Made with natural ingredients, biodegradable, kid-friendly, and pet-friendly. My favorites are packed in eco-friendly bottles such as glass bottles or sugar cane resin which reduces the amount of new petroleum-based plastic being used. ​

On this page will find only the best, most natural, and safer window & glass cleaners on the market, kid-friendly, and pet-friendly.

 

• 🌿My number one recommendation is The Wholesome Home Window & Glass Cleaner.   Made with all-natural and organic, safe plant-based ingredients, it is a bathroom cleaner and disinfectant. It comes in an eco-friendly glass bottle. The 2 oz concentrate refills will give you 2x  16 oz bottles. Making that the best bathroom cleaner on the market. My 10% off promo code is PRETTYORGANICGIRL

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