Cleaning Supplies! The New Threat To Kids Can Make You Money

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Okay, so it’s not a new threat but with all the green living trend going strong recently, I am more aware than ever of the toxic stuff I use to clean my home. With young kids around, it’s not enough to just hide the cleaning supplies under the sink. My youngest daughter, 7 years old, is at the “can I help you mom” stage and my biggest fear is she’d use these cleaning supplies to clean the house when I’m not looking.

I recently looked at the warnings on the labels of my cleaning supplies and these national brands are what you’d find typical at any grocery store. I discovered plenty of words such as Danger, Corrosive, Poison, Toxic, etc. as well as cautions such as “May cause severe irritation or damage to eyes and skin.” or “May cause: Chemical burn” or “INGESTION: Corrosive to mouth and digestive tract”. I couldn’t believe that I have never really pay attention to these warnings before. I read somewhere recently that over a million kids under age 6 each year were poisoned by household products.

Recalled Cleaning Products

At this point, I realized I need to replace all my current cleaning supplies with safer and greener alternatives.  So I went online to do some serious research. I look at Health and Safety Information on Household Products, where you can dig deeper for explanation on health effects of a particular household product from data on the product’s MSDS. (MSDS stands for Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) which gives the proper procedures for workers who handle large quantity of or spend lots of time working with a particular substance.) It’s not really for consumers who use the product once in awhile.

Another place to visit is OSHA/EPA Occupational Chemical Database where you can research any chemical for its health hazards or lack there of. For example, I checked on this chemical, Formaldehyde, a substance presence in the list of ingredients on my current disinfectant product. The full report from OSHA/EPA Database called it a carcinogen, or cancer-causing substance. This fact is confirmed at the National Cancer Institute with this quote from their website:

Formaldehyde has been classified as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Needless to say, I won’t be using my current brand of disinfectant around my children anymore. By the way, you can use these same websites to make sure that a nontoxic or “green” cleaning product really lives up to its manufacturer’s claims.

So how do I plan to turn this into a home based business opportunity? During my research, I discover network marketing companies such as WowGreen, have focused primarily on green cleaning products. Their product demonstration videos online are very convincing. Their pricing comparisons to mainstream cleaning products have me excited that I won’t be paying more than what I usually spend on cleaning supplies anyway.

My only problem is so far it’s hard to find a local distributor whom I can purchase from and test out these green cleaning products. I plan to test these products inside out before signing up as a distributor. Can their stain removal pen really completely erase wine stains on my husband’s favorite shirt? What about the blood stain on my carpet? And if their laundry detergent won’t trigger my son’s allergy, then their green cleaning products will win me over as a consumer and distributor.

My goal is to find really effective green cleaning products that are still safe enough to be around my children and also sell through distributors. I will blog my results (good and bad) in upcoming posts to share with you. I also welcome any help and suggestions from readers to help speed up my search for a perfect green cleaning business opportunity.

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