- Cut down on costs and help to create clean air by mixing your own cleaning solutions. By combining simple ingredients such as plain soap, water, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), vinegar, washing soda (sodium carbonate), lemon juice, and borax you can satisfy most household cleaning needs.
- Use laundry soaps labeled "fragrance-free," because the fragrances in detergents and fabric softeners can contain phthalates, chemicals that have been linked to cancer and reproductive-system damage in animal lab tests.
- Levels of pollutants in indoor air can be from two to more than 100 times higher than outdoors, according to the U.S. EPA. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate, or "off gas," from home decorating and cleaning products are mostly responsible for indoor pollution.
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