Think Dirty - Household Cleaner

So my fave housecleaner, Lysol, is no longer welcome here at our house.  I loved the lemon clean smell that I grew up with but it really irritated Ari's sinuses. They hated how it smelled and decided to do a little research on the subject of cleaning products, specifically Lysol Clean & Fresh cleaner. It’s pretty bad. In fact, the EWG rates it an F.

The obvious concerns are respiratory effects and skin damage. All but two of the disclosed ingredients that have data can cause major respiratory problems. Our old friend generic fragrance is back at it again with the acute skin and respiratory toxicity, along with its friends sodium borate (which can also cause skin damage, subfertility, and birth defects) and limonene (a culprit of contact dermatitis, organ effects, asthma, and cancer). Fun stuff!

So we chose a natural product that smells amazing to both of us. Needless to say, we’re glad we switched to Thieves™. Since we found out that there is evidence backing the main ingredient of Lysol as promoting organ failure, we figured you might want to switch, too.

The reason that Thieves™ household cleaner is a great replacement is that it has NONE of those nasties; instead, it uses all-natural essential oils from Young Living, specifically clove, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus radiata, and rosemary, all of which also come in the FDA-approved Vitality® line, so all of which are safe and edible. That way if your food falls on the counter or your kids run across the freshly-mopped floor, you won’t need to worry! Young Living has you covered. It’s better for the environment as well, since the Lysol going down the toilet drain is a danger to aquatic life.

Thieves™ cleaner might seem a bit expensive at first but you only use a capful in a quart of water for a great household spray or spot cleaner for your carpet. It doesn’t come in those convenient wipes Lysol either but we have a recipe to make your own wipes that smell even better! So you have easy access cleaning that’s REALLY clean and not toxic. 

There are so many ways you can use this cleaner that we have thrown out lots of products: carpet shampoo, glass cleaner, fruit and veggie spray, wood cleaner, and laundry detergent, to name a few.  So we now have a lot fewer nasty chemicals in our home to screw up our bodies and cause issues we don't need.  And best of all, we find Thieves does a much better job even though it is natural enough to ingest.

If you would like to try Thieves foaming hand soap and get wholesale pricing contact me at otown.oilers@gmail.com or order direct here:

https://www.youngliving.com/vo/#/signup/start?site=US&sponsorid=3703800&enrollerid=3703800

Here are a few recipes for making your own products from the Thieves cleaner:

This blog post written by Ari