Ideal Bite

Are you preparing your famous chocolate souffle in a chemistry lab?

04.10.2006

Submitted by idealbite on Mon, 04/10/2006 - 5:00pm.

The Bite:

Many kitchen cleaners, particularly oven cleaners, are laden with harsh chemicals that can irritate your eyes and skin, not to mention Mother Nature. Natural cleaning products leave the kitchen clean and your health in check.

The Benefits:

Natural alternatives exist for nearly every kitchen cleaning task, eliminating the need for chemical-heavy cleaners.
Limit exposure to harsh chemicals. The average home today contains over sixty-two chemicals – that’s more than a circa-1900 chemistry lab.
You know what you’re getting, and you can even pronounce the ingredients. More than 72,000 synthetic chemicals have been invented since World War II.
Americans spend 90% of their time indoors. Using natural cleaning products helps to create a safer environment in your kitchen, your home or your workplace.

Personally Speaking:

Heather feels like she’s in a garden when she cleans the kitchen sink with her Mrs. Meyers Geranium powdered scrub. Jen’s been a Shaklee aficionado for years after her Shaklee’d cousin cornered her one Christmas in a daze of cookie comatose.

Wanna Try:

Restore Non-Toxic Oven Cleaner - removes soot and grease from ovens and grills ($7).
BioKleen Automatic Dish Powder - free of phosphates ($7).
Mrs. Meyers Geranium Surface Scrub - heaven-scented and works like a charm ($4.99).
Seventh Generation Citrus Kitchen Cleaner - non-toxic, biodegradable, petroleum and chlorine-free ($5).

Cocktail Fact

In 1900, cancer was responsible for 4% of US deaths. Chemicals introduced during the Industrial Revolution “helped” increase this number to almost 25%.

Bang For The Bite

If every U.S. household replaced one 32 oz. bottle of kitchen cleaner containing chlorine bleach with one that was hydrogen peroxide-based, we’d save enough chlorine to disinfect 16,500 pools for a summer.

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