Re: Allergies: Chemicial Sensitivities and other stuff

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Jacki,

Thanks for your response. Lately, I am becoming a bit obssessed with keeping

my house as chemical-free as possible and try not to use any detergents at

all, unless I really have to. Vinegar and baking soda are wonderful cleaning

tools and the environment in general benefits as well. I do have to use

softener sheets in the dryer, because with 3 dogs, I would never get the dog

hair off my clothes and bedding , etc. I stopped using the detergent that

goes into a carpet steamer (Bissell) and use Oxyfresh only. With Oxyfresh,

at least there is no smell that lingers in the house for a week after each

rug cleaning (plain water doesn't take a barf stain out of the rug,

unfortunately). Peroxyde is wonderful for blood stains - it just literally

eats the blood away. (I wish the pharmacies sold it by a gallon, it would be

more economical than the half litre bottles). :-)

I think that we (in North America, at least) are exposed to too many

commercials that try to convince us that we cannot live without all the

chemical stuff the manufacturers are churning out day and night. Having

grown up in (former) Czechoslovakia, we were not as worried about bacteria

on the kitchen counter as we seem to be here. I cringe at the thought of

spraying Lysol all over - I handle of LOT of raw chicken because my dogs eat

partly BARF diet (that stands for Bones and Raw Food) and I never had a

problem. Please don't get me wrong, I am careful and clean up afterwards,

bla bla bla, I just think we don't need to soak everything in Lysol et al.

Later,

Alena