Saturday, November 15, 2008

Four tips for People Who are Sensitive to Chemicals

A few years back I created a message board on AOL that was interactive. Eventually I had to discontinue it due to spam. But from that board, I saved this 2005 post contributed by a reader named Andy:

Things that helped me with MCS

1- get away from city water - use well or rainwater (get away from chlorine, flourides and a fistful of other surprises)
2- get rid of clothes and wash/dryer machines that have been exposed to regular detergents (can't use washaterias)- buy some new clothes, detox them in baking soda water for a few hours at least, and if you cant afford new machines hand wash with nontoxic detergents. Watch out for "non fragant" labels, sometimes they just mask the fragrances (regular detergent co. new "green" products do this making them actually even more toxic). You want to use companies that never have made regular detergents.
3- eat properly - processed foods are the worst! No sugar, flour, yeast, alcohol, preservatives, pesticides, hydrogenated oils.
4- of course avoid toxic chemicals!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A low cost, green eco friendly, healthy natural way to to make a homemade laundry detergent or cleaner is from soapberry which grows on the Chinaberry tree and has been used for thousands of years. It works very effectively.