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8. Household Cleaning Products
Talk about toxic overload! Those everyday household cleaning products are generally loaded with chemicals that are known toxins and carcinogens, such as sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, ammonia, phosphorous, methoxychlor, formaldehyde and chloroform, just to name a few of the thousands of chemicals found in stuff you probably use every week. Unfortunately, in the U.S., Canada, and most other countries, toxic chemicals in cleaning agents are simply not regulated at all. There are plenty of non-toxic options that will clean your house just as well as these toxic cleaners. Check out some of the natural recipes that you can find online for making your own non-toxic household cleaners.
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9. Antiperspirants
No one likes to see those ugly sweat stains under the arms, so most of us use antiperspirants to stop sweating and/or, of course, prevent smell. Unfortunately, antiperspirants stop our bodies from doing what they are designed to do: remove toxins via sweat. Sweating, as unpleasant as we might find it, serves several important purposes. On top of stopping toxins from leaving the body, antiperspirants contain numerous toxic chemicals, including parabens, aluminum, and propylene glycol, just to name a few! Everything you put on your skin gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream. This means you are absorbing aluminum with ease. Aluminum has been linked in numerous studies to the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Aluminum is a neurotoxin and the last thing you want is to be putting it into your body deliberately.
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