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Household toxins
TOP "10" KILLER HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS
AIR FRESHENERS: Most air fresheners interfere with
your ability to smell by coating your nasal passages
with an oil film, or by releasing a nerve deadening agent.
Known toxic chemicals found in an air freshener:
Formaldehyde: Highly toxic, known carcinogen.
Phenol: When phenol touches your skin it can
cause it to swell, burn, peel, and break out in
hives. Can cause cold sweats, convulsions,
circulatory collapse, coma and even death!!
AMMONIA: It is a very volatile chemical, it is very
damaging to your eyes, respiratory tract and skin.
BLEACH: It is a strong corrosive. It will irritate or
burn the skin, eyes and respiratory tract. It may cause
pulmonary edema or vomiting and coma if ingested.
WARNING: never mix bleach with ammonia it may cause fumes
which can be DEADLY.
CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY SHAMPOO: Most formulas are
designed to over power the stain itself, they
accomplish the task but not without using highly toxic
substances. Some include:
Perchlorethylene: Known carcinogen damages liver,
kidney and nervous system damage.
Ammonium Hydroxide: Corrosive, extremely irritable
to eyes, skin and respiratory passages.
DISHWASHER DETERGENTS: Most products contain chlorine
in a dry form that is highly concentrated. # 1 cause of
child poisonings, according to poison control centers.
DRAIN CLEANER: Most drain cleaners contain lye,
hydrochloric acid or trichloroethane.
Lye: Caustic, burns skin and eyes, if ingested will
damage esophagus and stomach.
Hydrochloric acid: Corrosive, eye and skin irritant,
damages kidneys, liver and digestive tract.
Trichloroethane: Eye and skin irritant, nervous
system depressant; damages liver and kidneys.
FURNITURE POLISH:
Petroleum Distillates: Highly flammable, can cause
skin and lung cancer.
Phenol: (see Air fresheners, Phenol.)
Nitrobenzene: Easily absorbed through the skin,
extremely toxic.
MOLD AND MILDEW CLEANERS: Chemicals contained are:
Sodium hypochlorite: Corrosive, irritates or burns
skin and eyes, causes fluid in the lungs which can
lead to coma or death. Formaldehyde: Highly toxic,
known carcinogen. Irritant to eyes, nose, throat,
and skin. May cause nausea, headaches, nosebleeds,
dizziness, memory loss and shortness of breath.
OVEN CLEANER:
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye): Caustic, strong irritant,
burns to both skin and eyes. Inhibits reflexes,
will cause severe tissue damage if swallowed.
ANTIBACTERIAL CLEANERS: may contain:
Triclosan: Absorption through the skin can be tied to
liver damage.
LAUNDRY ROOM PRODUCTS:
Sodium or calcium hypocrite: Highly corrosive,
irritates or burns skin, eyes or respiratory tract.
Linear alkylate sulfonate: Absorbed through the skin.
Known liver damaging agent.
Sodium Tripolyphosphate: Irritates skin and mucous
membranes, causes vomiting. Easily absorbed through
the skin from clothes.
TOILET BOWL CLEANERS:
Hydrochloric acid: Highly corrosive, irritant to
both skin and eyes. Damages kidneys and liver.
Hypochlorite Bleach: Corrosive, irritates or burns
eyes, skin and respiratory tract. May cause pulmonary
edema, vomiting or coma if ingested. Contact with
other chemicals may cause chlorine fumes which may
be fatal.
OTHER NASTY THINGS THAT ARE AROUND YOUR HOME
PESTICIDES: Most pesticides have ingredients that affect
the nervous system of insects. Imagine what these extremely
poisonous chemicals do to your body. or your baby's.
Dimpylate: Better known as Diazinon, extremely toxic.
Impairs the central nervous system.
Chlorinate Hydrocarbons: Suspected carcinogen and
mutantagen.
Accumulates in food and in fatty tissue. Will attack
the nervous system.
Organophosphates: Toxic and poisonous. If you can
smell it, your lungs are absorbing it.
FLEA POWDERS: Why put toxins on "man's (or woman's) best
friend."
Carbaryl: Very toxic, causes skin, respiratory and
cardiovascular system damage.
Chlordane: Accumulates in the food chain, may damage
eyes, lungs, liver, kidney and skin.
Dichlorophene: Skin irritation: May damage liver,
kidney, spleen and central nervous system.
LICE SHAMPOO: Especially vulnerable are children.
Lindane: Inhalation, ingestion, or ABSORPTION through
the SKIN causes vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions and
circulatory collapse. May cause liver damage,
stillbirths, birth defects and cancer.
CAR WASH AND POLISH:
Petroleum Distillates: Associated with skin and
lung cancer, irritant to skin, eyes, nose and lungs.
Entry into the lungs may cause fatal pulmonary edema,
most marked Danger, Harmful or Fatal.
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