Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household ProductsHome Safe Home is the ultimate reference of its kind, written by the leading authority on eliminating toxics in the home. It offers more than four hundred tips, including do-it-yourself formulas for inexpensive, safe products to replace the harmful substances we are exposed to in our own households. If you suffer from unexplained headaches, fatigue, or depression, or if you worry about the link between increased use of toxic chemicals and the rising rate of cancer, the many suggestions in this book can make your life virtually toxic-free! Here are some of the many useful facts you'll learn: - You can make a window cleaner from vinegar and water that is safe, more effective, and less expensive than any product on the market. - A mineral powder, which costs pennies per use, is the safest way to get whites their whitest. - Simply changing your type of sheets and pillows may cure insomnia. |
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... cosmetics . Because of these testimonies , a House subcom- mittee asked the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) to analyze 2,983 chemicals used in cosmetics . The results were as follows : 884 of the ...
... cosmetics . Because of these testimonies , a House subcom- mittee asked the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) to analyze 2,983 chemicals used in cosmetics . The results were as follows : 884 of the ...
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... Cosmetic Ingredients . If you've done your homework , it can be a relatively simple task to identify natural cosmetics . Re- member , though , that some of these ingredients may be hybrid- natural , containing petrochemicals even though ...
... Cosmetic Ingredients . If you've done your homework , it can be a relatively simple task to identify natural cosmetics . Re- member , though , that some of these ingredients may be hybrid- natural , containing petrochemicals even though ...
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... COSMETICS Let's start with lipstick , because it's the most toxic . First , lipstick may contain several substances known to cause cancer in ani- mals : polyvinylpyrrolidone plastic ( PVP ) , saccharin , min- eral oil , and artificial ...
... COSMETICS Let's start with lipstick , because it's the most toxic . First , lipstick may contain several substances known to cause cancer in ani- mals : polyvinylpyrrolidone plastic ( PVP ) , saccharin , min- eral oil , and artificial ...
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