Toxic Chemicals In Our Homes

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The Products Your Using In Your Home May Be Making You and Your Children Sick

Have you ever thought about all the toxic chemicals that you use in your home on a daily basis? Lets run through a typical day at your house. You get up at 6:00 a.m. You take a shower and get ready to start your day, you use soap, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, lotion, maybe some cologne, makeup, and hair spray or gel. You clean out the tub and spray some air freshner. You've already exposed yourself to ten chemicals not counting the laundry detergent in your sheets that you slept on. Every thing that we and our family comes in contact with is absorbed into our bodies one way or another. Some chemicals are absorbed through our skin and some we breath. We expose ourselves and our children to hundreds of these toxins on a daily basis if we're not using products in our home that are non toxic. Children are much more suseptable to these toxins than we are. Their young bodies are developing and taking in all these toxic chemicals. Many chemicals cause lung disorders, reproductive problems, skin conditions and the list goes on and on.

Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Kids Bath Products 

Articles from USA Today and Sun Times

Study Finds Cancer Causing Chemicals In Kids Bath Products -Sun Times

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/1476513,CST-NWS-bath14.article

Group Finds Carcinogens in Kids Bath Products -USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-12-formaldehyde_N.htm#table

The Statistics Are Disturbing 

The cause of 60% of birth defects is unknown - only 5% are known to be genetic.

Childhood cancer rates have increased 10.8% in the past decade.

In children age 1-14, cancer causes more deaths than any other illness.

Approximately 10 million children under the age of 12 live within four miles of a toxic waste dump, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Asthma rates in children have nearly doubled in the last 20 years.

Over 1 million children a year will suffer permanent damage from lead exposure.

Chemicals Connected To Autism 

Should Parents Be Concerned

There are many connections between toxic chemicals and bith defects including Autism. Using chemicals during pregnancy is very dangerous. The chemicals are absorbed through the mothers skin and absorbed into the unborn fetus. Find out more information about pesticides and chemicals.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCall/Story?id=4857380&page=1

http://www.greenclippings.co.za/gc_main/article.php?story=20061108131810196

Living Green 

The Products Your Using May Be A Health Risk To You And Your Family

This blog has more information about some individual toxic chemicals that you may be using in your home and alternatives.

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What do you think? 

Do You Think That Everyday Chemicals We're Using In Our Homes Could Be Making Us And Our Children Sick?

I think that the toxic chemicals that we are exposed to and especially children are all exposed to on a daily basis in our homes are the cause of a lot of childhood illnesses. ADHD, Asthma, Allergies , Dermatitis and many more.Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group Click here to check out their product research and learn more about the products that you may currently be using in your home

More web site information about toxins

http://rmbarry.com/research/toxics_schools.html

http://rmbarry.com/research/toxics_children.html

Simply switching stores can eliminate the toxic chemicals in your home. I've been using safer products in my home for over five years. Is your family worth it? I think they are. Please visit my website and request more information. www.livetotalwellness.com/karla04

Are Toxic Chemicals Effecting Children?

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Yes, children are exposed to many household toxins in their own homes that cause childhood illnesses.

holmylz says:

Yes. The WHO said so about a year ago. That chemicals may cause asthma, ADD, and Autism.

Our children aren't at risk because of the low levels of toxins in everyday consumable products.

 

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