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Additives Soaps and Surfactants
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 with them, watch...
Chemicals and Pollutants in Cleaning Agents
We all buy cleaning products to make our home cleaner, fresher, brighter – but at what price?
Many common cleaning products contain chemicals...
Electrical Goods and Pollution in the Home
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...
Flame-Retardant Furniture
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 bedclothes or sofa...
Green Alternatives to Carpets
Despite the rise in popularity of laying wooden floors in modern homes, the majority of floor covering still tends to be carpet.
However, there are many reasons...
Green Cleaning Products
We all use cleaning products on a daily basis and probably harbour a whole battalion of various sprays, polishes, unctions, gumptions and miracle powders. But have we...
Harmful Chemicals in Babies Dummies
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 in their mouths....
Household Cleaners and Detergents
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 shown that the air we...
Household Dust Contaminants
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 again a few hours...
Natural Odour-Eaters
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 trainers under the...
Rancid Rugs
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 rarely get an airing....
Reducing Dust Mites in Your Home
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 provide about 1g of...
Treacherous Toys
Children should be able to freely learn through play, exploring a variety of stimulating toys.
But what if your toddler was putting toxic toys into their mouth and...
What is in Upholstery Cleaners?
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 at the state of the...
Whiter than White: the Truth about Bleach
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...
