Poisons Abound
Fabric Softeners -Dangerous Comfort?
If ever you have pulled out your favorite towel or Pj’s from the dryer and held them to your face and inhaled deeply?
There’s nothing like the soft, comforting feel of fresh laundered clothes, especially when you’ve used lots of fabric softener either in the wash or the drier. But is it really safe?
Fabric softeners contain oils that reduce free electrons and cut down on static, which also reduces the stiffness of clothes. Since it’s left in the clothes after washing, or even added while drying, the oil residue remains next to your skin and is absorbed into your body through your pores.
Fabric softener perfumes often contain ethyl acetate, benzyl alcohol, camphor, ethanol (which is on the EPA Hazardous Waste list), limonene, linalool, and a-Terpineol. These chemicals cause respiratory irritation and even failure, headache, nausea, dizziness, anemia, liver and kidney damage, CNS disorders, and respiratory edema – and many of them have the EPA warning to wash hands after handling!
Most of the dangerous chemicals in fabric softeners are most dangerous when inhaled.
Fabric softeners used on fluffy materials like your child’s fleece pajamas or your terrycloth robe and towels can increase flammability!
Instead of using toxic commercial fabric softener, try adding a quarter-cup of baking soda to your wash cycle to soften fabrics, and a quarter cup of white vinegar to soften and eliminate cling. Or you can look online or at a local health food store for a natural fabric softener. You’ll be doing your family a favor.
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Table of contents for Home and Hearth
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- Poisons Abound
- Home Scents Sense
- A Firm Hold on Toxins Allergic Reactions
- Wick-ed Candles
- Most Common Chemicals Found in Fragrance Products
- Eezy Queezy Febreze
- The3LB Guide Blending And Growing Smoking Herbs
- New Hope For Medical Tokers
- Marijuana is Good Medicine. . .
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- Learn About Herbs And Teas
- Management of Sleep And Pain Using Herbs
- Cannabinoids Can Inhibit Tumor Cell Growth in Highly Invasive Cancers
- Nobody Ever Got Sick Because They Got the Wrong Pot!
- Marijuana - an Effective Antidepressant
- Buds Build Brains?
- IACM Bulletin Gem
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