It started with organic and natural personal health products; face washes, creams, and hair products. Now I have ditched anti-perspirants and use rose water as a natural deodorant (you are SUPPOSED to sweat) and threw away toothpaste (baking soda works well). And now I’ve started cleaning with vinegar. I threw away half my dishwashing liquid and added vinegar, clean the kitchen and bathroom with straight vinegar. It works very well, although you have to use a lot.
My next target is soap and using natural alternatives instead. Ultimately, in a few years, I want to become a vegetarian and buy only organic and environmentally safe products.
What about you guys? Anyone here doing this as well? I think Shahreen is, as she’s mentioned it in a few threads. It’s more expesive but well worth it. I am too scared of cancers and other problems to risk anything, no matter how matter how remote the risk might be. Plus, I like that I’m doing my part to help save the environment.
I hope that there won’t be more people like you … my job depends on my company being able to sell its synthetic face washes, cream, hair products, anti-perspirants, deodorants, toothpastes, dishwashing liquid, kitchen cleaners, bathroom cleaners, soaps, etc.
I urge all guppies not to act like Sarah otherwise you’ll put me out of work
I never used to enviromentally concious untill Harris was diagnosed with cancer over a year ago, since them I've become more aware of the chemicals and pesticides etc that we expose our bodys to and I've been trying to cut back as much as possible on them.
Ideally I'd like to be as enviromentally friendly as I possibly can, but certain things are hard to find a 'greener' alternative for thats just as effective......cleaning products is one of them.
I haven't tried cleaning with vinegar......don't really like the idea of having my house smell like a chippy. Does it actually work though?
Vinegar is meant to be the dogs bollocks in cleaning..that maggie and whatsherface in "how clean is your house" are always banging on about it, although i dont think its pure vinegar, its part something else....and since i dont know what i shall stop.
Shahreen, yes vinegar cleans very well. For extra hard to clean things, mix vinegar with baking soda and scrub as usual. It also gets rid of soap scum on dishes that stays on because of dishwashing liquids. And the smell is gone as soon as the vinegar dries. I think vinegar also acts as a natural fabric softener and air deodorizer (someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you heat it up).
And same here, was not environmentally conscious at all but have become so since last year. I know too many people with cancer, in my family and outside of it.
Miss M, you are supposed to dilute, since straight vinegar can eat away at tiles. You can also mix it with olive oil and use it to clean wood furniture.
I dunno.... if ur gonna die ur gonna die, either slowly by cancer or getting hit by a truck. Yeah u shud live as healthy as you can, but if u can't afford to be totally organic/environmentally conscious then don't kill ur budget trign to do so..
yeh i thought as much…my sister sometimes uses it for cleaning the bathroom tiles…i never was a good scrubber
lemon juice is also really good for cleaning, its makes things shine and stuff…oh and half a lemon in a bowl surrounded with salt makes ur fridge smell lush..its a great way to get rid of nasty smelly food that your brother leaves in the fridge for days on end.
It's worth all the extra bucks to me. And it's not just long term benefit, you see some short results as well. Cleaning with those extremely dangerous chemicals, I would walk around with an itchy throat for sometimes days afterward. They made my skin red, my eyes red. And you don't really drop dead with cancer suddenly, it ruins your life and those of your loved ones, ruins your quality of life, is incredibly expensive. Stuff like breast cancer can lead to a breast being removed, and you live with that for years. If I can cut down my risk, I will pay the extra bucks for it.
Another use for vinegar: use it to clean mirrors and then wipe the surface with newspaper.
Breast cancer is genetic, not caused by chemicals. My great grandmother died many decades ago from breast cancer, back in the days when people still did things the "natural" way...
If your genes are programmed before you are born to make parts of your body turn cancerous, then there's nothing you can do to stop it.
Anyway, I'm being way too agrressive. If natural products actually make you feel better, then you're more than welcome to do so. I don't ever want to encourage people to do things that make them unhappy. :)
I'd better start being nice to you Canadians now that I live amongst your kind :p
