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9 Reasons to Use Chemical Free Cleaning Products in Your Home

purbloc blogger • Mar 18, 2020

Chemical free cleaning products will not only be good for the environment, they are also good for your health. Read on to learn more.

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Green everything is totally in in 2020. It doesn't just end with the occasional recyclable or Meatless Monday, though. 

Cleaning green is another way to ditch the chemicals, help the environment, and protect your health, especially if you're sensitive to allergens or have young ones or pets in the home.

It might seem really hard. Most modern cleaners are heavy with harsh chemicals. Is it actually worth the switch? 

We think so. 

Continue reading for nine great reasons to swap your household cleaners for chemical-free cleaning products this year.

1. The Smell!

When using common household cleaners, you tend to have two basic smell options:

  1. Overwhelming chemical smell
  2. Overwhelming artificial fruit or floral smell to cover the artificial chemical smell
While we sometimes like artificial scents to make our homes smell nice, they're rarely the ones that are associated with common cleaners. Those are strong and abrasive. They have to be to mask the chemical scents.

Many people are allergic to perfumes and have to avoid the fake scents put over the chemicals. Then they're subject to the strong chemical smells instead, which are no better. 

With green cleaners, smells are mild and tolerable.

2. Clean Air Inside the Home

While we're all well-aware of pollution outside of the home, did you know that your indoor air can be polluted too? 

VOCs (or volatile organic compounds) are chemicals that are in a plethora of household products, as well as some common materials and flooring. It's best to minimize your exposure to VOCs, especially if you're sensitive to common allergens.

By going green, VOCs won't be a problem at all. You'll know the ingredients that you're spreading around your home.

3. Know Your Ingredients

Have you ever looked at the ingredient list on the back of a container of cleanser and recognized maybe half of the words?

With chemical-free cleaning products, you're much more likely to know what you're working with. This means you can avoid unwanted ingredients and feel safe spreading these cleaners on your tables, countertops, and floors. 

4. Help the Environment

All of those chemical-heavy cleansers can be rough on the environment. Green products are generally sustainable and non-toxic, making them a much more environmentally-friendly choice for consumers.

On the other hand, standard cleansers can contain ingredients that are harmful if dumped outside, and ingredients that are non-renewable. This means that they're not doing great things for your world. 

5. Keep Your Pets and Babies Safe

When you're cleaning your house, you're using those cleaners all over your tabletops, countertops, floors, and any other surface that you can see or touch.

Babies and pets are much closer to these surfaces (especially low tables and floors) than we are, and often put their mouths on things. With chemical-heavy cleaners, there could be harmful ingredients leftover.

With green cleaners, you can feel safe knowing that your children and animals aren't being harmed by your products.

6. Protect Your Own Health

While protecting the more vulnerable members of your household, switching to green cleaners will also help protect you.

Chemical cleaners can be harsh on the body. Some of them even suggest wearing rubber gloves for use, or to avoid inhaling! 

While these problems dissipate after the cleaners are used, it's best to avoid the problem in the first place. You may find that problems that you've been dealing with inside the home that you've been attributing to allergies mysteriously fade away.

7. Safer for Everyday Use

So maybe you're not that worried about your heavier chemicals that you only use once in a while. You deep clean your bathroom once per month, you do an intense wash in the kitchen, these are no big deal.

But what about the daily exposure to little things? A tiny bit of glass cleaner here and there every day? A quick swipe of the stovetop after dinner every night?

Repeat exposure can up your risk of harm even for relatively harmless chemicals. By making the switch to natural products, you help to avoid that risk entirely. 

8. Avoid Creating Superbugs

Sounds scary, right?

The FDA says that there's no proof that using antibacterial soaps and cleaners will help keep you safe from illness more effectively than any other kind of cleaner. 

Furthermore, you're giving strains of bacteria resistance against our antibacterials and antibiotics through overuse.

By avoiding these ingredients when you don't objectively need them, you're protecting yourself and avoiding the creation of super bacteria. Using natural cleaners for your home and body could be saving yourself a future illness.

9. Less is More

Not only with ingredients but also with products. How many products for cleaning do you have in your house right now? 

Do you really think that different surfaces in different rooms, sometimes made of the same materials, need different cleaners? A few, sure, but an entire cabinet full? Unlikely. What are all of those extra ingredients for? What are they doing that the other ones aren't doing?

Trim the fat and stick to only what you need. Multipurpose natural cleaners will help keep your cabinets (and ingredient lists) decluttered. 

Are You Ready to Use Chemical-Free Cleaning Products?

People are making the switch every day to a more natural lifestyle. It's good for the environment, good for your personal health, and good for your wallet. 

Switching over to a more natural and environmentally-friendly product will leave your home fresher, cleaner, and less toxic, not to mention safer for any more vulnerable family members who happen to spend time there.

With only a handful of necessary products, it doesn't hurt to give chemical-free cleaning products a try, even if you're not completely convinced. The value that you get from a handful of safe products versus a cabinet of chemical-laden ones is incredible, you won't look back.

If you're interested in learning more, visit our page. We have several products to choose from and more information on why chemical-free cleaning might be the best thing for you.
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