What are you cleaning your home with?
Top 6 toxic cleaning products
Top 6 toxic cleaning products
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Product
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Toxic Ingredient
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Adverse effect
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Tilex Soap Scum Remover
& Sunlight Laundry Detergent |
Trisodium nitrilotriacetate
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Known carcinogen. Also an environmental hazard as it hinders the elimination of heavy metals in wastewater treatment systems.
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Purex Liquid Laundry soap
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Ethoxylated nonyl phenol
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Known endocrine disrupter in the environment (alters genital development) and listed as CEPA-toxic. **
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Fantastic All Purpose Cleaner
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2-Butoxyethanol
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May cause liver, kidney, and reproductive damage, and damage to the developing fetus. Listed as CEPA-toxic.**
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Comet Cleanser with Chlorinol
& Ajax Cleanser with Bleach |
Calcium carbonate
(specifically crystalline silica) |
Prolonged exposure to crystalline silica may result in reduced lung function in some individuals. Possible carcinogen risk.
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**CEPA-toxic is a toxicity designation in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
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