A CHECKLIST FOR BUYING CLEANING PRODUCTS

These days there are natural cleaners available in the supermarket but some can still be quite harmful. Here’s a list I adapted from healthiercleaningproducts.com. It outlines the standards of green cleaning solutions that provide and promote the very best health and wellbeing benefits to people.

PRODUCTS SHOULD:

• Be bio-based and contain no petrochemicals

• Contain no petro-dyes

(no added colours such as blue, red, yellow and so on, unless from natural sources)

• Contain no artificial petro-perfumes (no added fragrances such as pine, spice, mint and so on, unless provided by natural means such as essential oils)

• Be non-toxic to human and/or aquatic life

• Be non-corrosive to skin or eyes

• Have a pH level between 2.5 and 11.5

• Contain no chlorine bleach

• Contain no ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) or nitrolotriacetic acid (NTA)

• Contain no phenolic compounds or glycol ether

• Be free of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel and selenium.