If you are what you eat, and you are what you eat eats, it is important to choose foods that are raised and grown clean and healthfully. What you eat affects your health and well being, but just as importantly, what surrounds you in your home affects your health from the outside in; you are also what you absorb and ingest.

Is your home your haven from pollution? Bad news- it’s probably is not as “fresh” as you think. The air pollution inside of a home after a day of cleaning can be two to up to 100 times worse than the outside air pollution of the most polluted cities in the world, according to the US EPA. That indoor pollution is caused by cleaning products’ “off-gassing.” You ingest and absorb the chemicals you breathe and touch, and most typical household cleaners are highly toxic.

Documented cases are everywhere; Dogs and babies becoming extremely sick or even dying in homes that use “swifter wet jet,” children being poisoned by Mr.Clean Erasable Marker, and rising incidence of allergies, headaches, and even depression in homes that utilize air fresheners. The biggest trouble is that the regulations on cleaning chemicals are very lax, and there is no research on how different cleaning agents and fumes react together when an area is cleaned with several solutions. Just because a product says “safe” or “natural” does not mean it is non-toxic. The word “natural” is unregulated and undefined by the government, and basically means nothing. The cleaning supply industry is really making one big experiment of us... and our health is desperately suffering.

The good news is that there ARE safe, non-toxic solutions that actually work! There are many on the shelves that are not effective at cleaning, and give the green cleaners a bad wrap. But alas, we have discovered a line of products that works even better than leading toxic brands of cleaners.

Shaklee's “Get Clean” household cleaning products offer concentrated, nontoxic, biodegradable cleaning that use less packaging and less product than other conventional cleaners. Shaklee was founded in 1956 and is the first company to be Climate NeutralTM, that is apparently having zero impact on the environment. Void of nasty chemicals like chlorine, ammonia, phosphates and formaldehyde, “Get Clean is instead powered by natural enzymes and sustainably-derived ingredients, and are never tested on animals.”

We have stocked many of our clients’, family’s and friend’s cabinets with Shaklee, all who are well impressed with the effectiveness of the product, and feel better knowing that they and their families can breathe easier and walk barefoot in their truly “clean” home. Insist that your housekeeper use it! A great resource for environmental (and people) friendly products is grist.org. For more information about Shaklee products, or to order, please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call 858.248.3413.