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Reduce Chemical Exposure in the Home. Remove the following from sinks, drawers, cabinets, closets, and garage: all pesticides and herbicides, all toxic cleaning products*, all personal hygiene and beauty products that contain toxic ingredients. Examples: nail polish, nail polish remover, shaving creams, shoe polish, deodorants, makeup, scented soaps, lotions, perfumes, etc.

Reducing chemical exposure takes a load off the body’s detoxification system. Removing this immune stress increases the body’s capacity for handling unexpected exposures to chemicals, increases the body’s ability to handle natural pollens, dust and mold, increases the body’s resistance to viruses and bacterial infection, and frees the body to use its energy to heal if there is illness.

If you are extremely chemically sensitive, then it is very important that you realize how essential it is for you to thoroughly pay attention to your diet and the environment that you live in. For the fastest and most complete recovery you should eat only organic whole foods (eliminate all processed/chemicalized food) AND you should do everything possible to eliminate your exposures to plastics, VOC’s, SVOC’s, certain molds, ...

You may want to give your Nilfisk vacuum cleaner a name because it will become your good friend! It is built to last and will live a long time. You may even be able to pass it down to your children! Routine vacuuming of your house will continually improve your air quality. Studies have shown that some of the most dangerous pollutants ride on dust and your Nilfisk ...

Spring-cleaning is a tradition that is always very satisfying in the end. It feels good to have a clean, organized house. What better time to do a super spring clean that will greatly improve the air quality of your home and really make a difference. This basic deep clean should ideally be done sometime after you have completed the heavy-duty version, especially if you suspect that your house ...

Ideally, when you start to make changes to improve your home’s air quality, a heavy duty deep clean should be done. Basically, that means you will thoroughly clean every surface in your home from ceilings and walls to books, upholstered furniture, stuffed animals, toys, and any small items around the home. It can be overwhelming to think of facing perhaps years of accumulated dust, but the effort will be well worth it.

Sadly, many people are wearing clothing that has been washed with toxic laundry soaps and fabric softeners.  After repeated washings our clothes become incorporated with the chemicals and dyes from the detergents. Since toxins can enter the body not only by inhalation through the respiratory tract, but also by absorption through the skin our bodies receive a double dose from these scented toxic...

If you have been using conventional laundry care products that contain toxic chemicals, then you should decontaminate your washer and dryer. The toxic products deposit a residue in the washers and dryers that can be difficult to fully remove. It may take some time, depending on what the machines were contaminated with, but the effort will be well worth it. Please read the entire protocol before you begin.

If you have been using conventional laundry care products that contain toxic chemicals, it is highly likely that the air quality in your home is being affected. Decontaminating these chemicals from your laundry room is a big step in improving your entire home’s air quality. The toxic volatiles incorporate into the surfaces that they come in contact with. In some instances, the minute you walk into a laundry room, you immediately ...

Filtrete High Performance One-Inch Filters outperform all non-electrostatic filters including three-month pleated, washable fiberglass 1-inch filters. These filters protect the furnace motor and are an alternative to costly, permanent electronic air cleaners and are much more efficient than the inexpensive fiberglass filters. Filtrete filters capture small and large particles including smoke, smog and particles that carry viruses ...

Warning: Cleaning carpet can cause problems. In fact, the cleaning products used by carpet cleaning companies have been implicated in serious health problems. Cleaning of carpet has also been connected to Kawasaki syndrome, which is a serious systemic illness in children. Whenever a carpet is cleaned, use caution and leave the home until it has aired out and cleared.

The recommendations we give are not meant to restrict or interfere with your lifestyle. They are, in fact, steps that will improve the quality of your life by reducing and preventing symptoms due to poor indoor air quality. Creating a healthy home or workplace can save money that might later be spent on doctor visits, medication and missed workdays. Creating a healthy work and living area ...