Resource: HEALTHY HOMES FOR HEALTHY BRAINS
Toxins in the Home
Do you wash your clothes in Gain? Do you pump antibacterial soap onto your hands multiple times a day? Do you slather highly scented lotions on your body and let your three-year-old daughter put on your bright red lipstick?
Do you know how chemical fragrances disrupt your hormones? Or that ‘antibacterial’ can be overused? And your lipstick? You should check it for lead. All this you can do in the data bases of The Environmental Working Group.
Clinicians and researchers are now able to tell us why we are sick and how we have damaged the human body and brain with the way we live. The toxic quality of the things we bring into our homes is hurting us and our children.
We are learning the hard way - through mothers with cancer, elders with dementia, and children with diabetes: if we do not live differently, we cannot live well.
All the many chronic conditions that medicine is trying to cure with drugs are now responding to good food, healthy living, and clean environments. And what’s more, we can go beyond preventing disease, we can reverse it.
Living Well Locally honors the home as a primary space for healthy living, for healing chronic disease and for repairing what we humans have done to the natural world, to our offspring, and to our human future.
Home is scared space. We know now how to protect and care for it. Humans are headed toward wellness . . . and it all starts at home.
Walk down the laundry soap isle in any grocery store and it's toxic. The Dollar stores are enclosed toxic spaces with the all the soaps and air freshener things. My friend belongs to a buying club that claims to have healthy products. She gave me some laundry and dish soap as a gift. I tried them, and the scent that lingered made me feel ill. I had to get the products out of my home. Making my own, or buying clean products ( not so readily available) is they way to go for myself.