Household Products

We all use soaps and detergents every day and are conditioned by the advertising world of smiling mums and youthful models, to keep our clothes clean...

We all buy cleaning products to make our home cleaner, fresher, brighter – but at what price? Many common cleaning products contain chemicals and...

We all use a fair amount of electrical goods each day – indeed, it is hard to see how we could ever do without them. But although they make our...

All furniture and bedding has – by law – to be protected with flame retardants and for good reason; we have all heard tragic stories of deaths due to...

Despite the rise in popularity of laying wooden floors in modern homes, the majority of floor covering still tends to be carpet. However, there...

We all use cleaning products on a daily basis and probably harbour a whole battalion of various sprays, polishes, unctions, gumptions and miracle...

There are two main chemicals which worry parents when speaking of babies’ dummies, or items which have been designed for very young children to put...

As we clean and polish our homes, buffing up and dusting down, we could be coating every surface in a fine layer of toxins. In fact studies have...

Doing the dusting is probably something that most of us would rather put off. And some might think, what’s the point of it anyway? – It just gathers...

Every so often we all get nasty odours permeating our house. Whether we’ve been cooking fish, someone’s been smoking, or maybe just left their old...

Gone are the days when the maid would take the rugs outdoors and beat them. Now, with our central heating, double glazing and busy lives our rugs...

Dust mites are everywhere, munching their way through our left-over’s. And I don’t mean the food we drop. It’s the bits that we shed each day - we...

Children should be able to freely learn through play, exploring a variety of stimulating toys. But what if your toddler was putting toxic toys...

I’m sure none of us wash our curtains, carpets and sofa as much as we feel we should, but if you’re anything like me, every so often you look askance...

Years of prime-time laundry ads have lead us to believe we should get very excited about finding a wonder-working whitener for our wash – and then...