Top 10 Swaps for a Healthier Year in Your Home!
Top 10 Swaps for a Healthier Year!
1.Processed Foods —— Organic, Whole Foods
Organic Produce contains fewer pesticides and heavy metals. Repeated exposure to pesticides and insecticides have been classified as a carcinogens and have been associated with developmental delays in infants. Eating foods with antibiotics or synthetic hormones increases your risk for cancer and antibiotic resistance.
2. Beauty Products ——Toxin-Free Beauty Products
Personal care products are manufactured with over 10,500 unique chemical ingredients and some are suspected carcinogens, toxic to reproductive system, known the disrupt the endocrine system, and many have been linked to cancer.
3. Air Fresheners/Candles ——Plants, Cracked Windows for 15 minutes a day, Diffuser with Essential Oils
Commonly emitted VOCs related to the scent in candles include many toxins that can cause headaches, dizziness, allergies, respiratory tract infections, and have been linked to cancer.
4. Cleaning Products —— Norwex Cleaning Products, Boulder, Force of Nature, Plant Therapy
According to an EWG study, 53 percent of cleaning products under review contained lung-harming ingredients. In addition, well-known carcinogens like formaldehyde and chloroform were found in several cleaners.
5. Plastic Food Containers/Cups —— Glass Food Containers/Cups
Plastics that contain the super toxic compound bisphenol A (BPA) have been in the news a lot lately. And for this reason, consumers have been duped into thinking that if a product is “BPA-free” it’s perfectly safe. But this is not true.
6. Detergent ——Toxin-Free Detergent (Truly Free, Molly’s Suds, Attitude)
On average, toxic laundry detergent products emit 17 toxins that go unlisted on the label, and which can cause problems ranging from skin irritations to neurological damage. These toxins have also been known to be toxic to the brain, impair the nervous system, have been linked to liver and kidney disease, and hormone disruption, just to name a few.
7. Feminine Care Products —— Organic Tampons/Silicone Menstrual Cups
Unlike something you swallow, substances you place inside your vagina may not go through the body's typical elimination and metabolic processes, says Ami Zota, an assistant professor of environmental health at George Washington University. Instead, tampon chemicals are absorbed by the vaginal mucosa, and from there are able to pass almost directly into your bloodstream.
8. Perfume/Cologne —— Essential Oil Blends, Ambre Blends
More than 95 percent of the chemicals in synthetic fragrances are derived from petrochemicals. These chemicals include: benzene derivatives, aldehydes, phthalates, and a slew of other known toxins that are capable of causing cancer, birth defects, nervous-system disorders and allergies—some of which are cited on the EPA’s hazardous waste list.
9. Teflon Cookware —— Cast-Iron/Glass/Stainless Steel
Teflon cookware is made of chemicals that the human body was never meant to ingest. Chemicals with long names like perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). These chemicals are released if you heat your Teflon cookware over too high of a flame or heat the pan with no food in it. At just 600 degrees, Teflon pans release multiple chemicals, carcinogens, and pollutants. At 1,000 degrees, Teflon releases PFIB, which is also used as a chemical nerve agent. Teflon itself, or polytetrafluorethylene, was originally a waste byproduct of freon production
10. Bedding/Upholstered Furniture/VOC Paints —— Organic untreated sheets, organic fabrics, wood cushions
Most bedding contains fire retardants, pesticides, bleach, and dyes. Upholstered furniture can be filled with polyurethane foams that are petroleum-based and full of chemicals and fire retardants.
Sources: EWG, Skindeep, Wellness Mama, Huffington Post
