Concerned mother of four discovers how Clorox Wipes and other household chemicals were affecting her children’s minds, lungs, skin …..

With my first baby, I gave cleaning products a great deal of thought and made as many as I could using earth friendly ingredients and recipes.

With my second baby, I needed convenience, so I tried some of the green cleaners found at health food stores. This was expensive, so at times I just used the chemicals that choke you in the cleaning aisles of grocery stores.

After my third baby, I needed maximum convenience and minimum price. So I started to use Clorox wipes, among other things

A friend of mine suggested I watch Toxic Brew, a news segment produced by a Canadian news station. After watching this, I realized I was doing more harm than good.

I heard of the work of Dr. Doris Rapp, who researches the effects of harmful chemicals on children’s health. In one of her studies, she tested the effects of bleach on six-year-olds’ hand-writing. Before a bottle of bleach was opened, students wrote their names fairly well. Then, with just an opened bottle of bleach in the room and the fumes wafting through the air, the children wrote their names messy, some too small to read, and one even wrote backwards.

I determined to do the same test at home.
I didn’t tell my kids what I was doing. I only told them to write as neatly as they could. Then, I told them to hold up their papers while I wiped the table off with a Clorox wipe. As soon as it was dry enough, I had them put their papers down and write their names again. I was shocked! My daughter’s writing was visibly messier; my son was completely distracted by something while he was writing his name! This is uncharacteristic of him. He has no attention difficulties.

I could clearly see that the chemicals were affecting both writing ability and focus.
My children are home schooled and we do chores every morning before school starts. Were my cleaning chemicals affecting them in other ways? I promised myself from that time on that I would not subject my children’s minds to danger again, not to mention their lungs and skin.
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