Bathrooms

There is no other room in your home that exposes you to more toxic chemicals than the bathroom. Let's take a close look at various ways to go green in your bathroom and get the toxic chemicals out of your life to greatly improve your health.

Reach under your cabinet or grab a bottle in the shower. Read the label. Can you pronounce any of the words? Probably not - that is if the chemicals are even listed on the bottle. Head to a website www.mycosmeticsdatabase.com to find the rating for the products you are using. You will be shocked at the toxins you are putting on your body.

Change your hair shampoo, conditioner, liquid soaps, bar soaps, hand lotions, hair gels and hair sprays to certified earth friendly products. Bar soaps, shampoo, conditions and liquid soaps among other toxic chemicals contain sodium laurel sulphate or SLS for short. SLS is what makes products foam.

SLS as well as bleach pulls the petrochemicals out of plastic bottles. The two combine to make the most toxic chemical known to man - sodium dioxin, or better known as Agent Orange. That means every time you wash your hair, apply hand lotion or wash your hands if you are using liquid soaps, you are washing with Agent Orange.

Next stop using air fresheners in the bathroom. Most contain chemicals that numb your sinuses. They do nothing to get rid of odors or they merely mask a bad odor with toxic chemicals. There are excellent natural air-fresheners made with enzymes on the market that destroy odors without posing health problems.

Finally stop using hair spray. Chances are you are having a difficult time getting the sticky stuff off mirrors, counters and floors. Guess what? It's stuck on your lungs, intestines, organs and your brain. Switch to organic gels instead and stop the decline of your memory and worse.