10 Cancer-Causers to Remove From Your Home (Page 2)

3. Automotive supplies: Most are toxic. Keep them safely away from the house and dispose of at a hazardous waste disposal center.

4. Candles: Avoid artificially scented paraffin candles that produce combustion by-products, including soot. Beeswax only, with cotton wicks. For more on beeswax candles, see The Brilliant Beeswax Candle.

5. Carpet and upholstery shampoos: Use only wet-clean, natural ingredients. For DIY carpet cleaning, see how to Remove Stains and Pet Odors from Carpets.

6. Dry-cleaning: Choose clothes that don’t need perchlorethylene to clean them. Ask for the wet-cleaning option at you local cleaners, or seek dry-cleaners that use liquid C02 or citrus juice cleaners. For more information, see Healthy and Green Dry Cleaning.

7. Flea, tick and lice control: Avoid lindane-based pesticides. For more information, see Natural Flea and Tick Control.

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Marija M.

9:38AM PDT on May 19, 2013

thank you for sharing

May 19
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Mary T.

9:03PM PDT on May 16, 2013

wow, didnt realize I had some many bad items in my house :(

May 16
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Elena T.

3:03AM PDT on May 16, 2013

Thank you :)

Terry V.

12:19PM PDT on May 2, 2013

thanks

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Sonali G.

10:12AM PDT on Apr 30, 2013

A lot of 'ready meals' come packaged in plastic and specify microwave instructions on them. Are they not safe either ? A lot of my clients use them when they are unable to cook for themselves. Interesting about art materials. I cringe to think of some of the toxic chemicals and materials I used years ago and some of the 'experimental' things I made. I am so careful now that I have 'grown up.' I dread to think of the damage that may have yet to come