eco tip for april
Eco
Tip Of The Month- Simple Ways To Kick Your Oil Addiction!
It
is amazing to discover how many of our products are made with or
contain oil. When you start to think about it you would
not want to drink the oil that you put in your car's engine, would you?
Well, you do ingest that same oil through many different household
cleaning products to the lotion you are putting on your and your baby's
skin! Everything that you put on your skin is in your bloodstream
within 28 seconds and can even be found in your liver! Now,
it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that ingesting motor
oil, no matter how refined it is, is NOT good for your health!
It is not that one dose is going to ruin your health, but
rather the building up of the same substance over and over again though
many years that creates disease. 
We
know we are not going to stop driving our cars but there are small
things that if we do them one at a time we will
collectively reduce our dependence on oil and provide ourselves and our
families with healthy prevention methods. In my March Eco Tip
we discovered that when each family in the U.S uses
just ONE 50 ounce bottle of liquid laundry detergent they
have used 233,000 barrels of oil! That is enough oil to heat and cool
13,400 homes for ONE year! Imagine that! Just switching ONE
bottle of laundry detergent from the petroleum based ones made popular
through advertising to a natural vegetable oil based
detergent can do that much good.
April's tip of the month is yet another small product change that we
all can make. We made this step 2 years ago and are very
pleased with the results.
Change
the dishwashing liquid soap you are using. If every household in the U.S.
just did this ONE time, ONE bottle of 25 ounces of Petroleum
based liquid dishwashing soap to a natural vegetable based
liquid laundry soap that would save 81,000 barrels of oil which is
enough to heat and cool 4,600 families in the U.S for ONE year! It
is only about 89 cents to $1.25 more per bottle but you don't use much
of this soap being that most of you use dishwashers. So you are not
buying that many bottles of liquid dishsoap each year.
Now
I don't know about you but I think it is pretty disgusting
to imagine that the soap you are washing your pots and pans with or
your dishes that can not go in the dishwasher with petroleum products,
namely oil. You can not smell it because they have covered the smell up
with all manner of poisonous fragrances and then added colors to entice
you to buy it. Just because you rinse it off after you put it on your
hands and dishes does not mean it is all removed!
We
switched to Seventh Generation's Liquid Laundry Soap about 2
years ago and never looked back. Knowing that it is non toxic, contains
not petroleum products, no artificial colors or fragrances, no chlorine
or other poisonous ingredients makes me feel like I am doing my part
not just for my family but also for the environment. It also fights the
grease the best out of any products bad and good that I have tried. You
can find many alternatives at Whole Foods, they even have their own
brands. We get Seventh Generation at our Publix Supermarket when I
can't make it out to Whole Foods and also at Target.
If
we take living healthier and being eco friendly just one step at a time,
resolve to change just one product in your home at a time, one month at
a time, you will make a significant contribution to not only your
family's health and wellbeing but that of the entire earth! How is that
for making a difference.
SO take my Spring Challenge and
make the switch today!
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