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BEDROOM
Sweet Dreams Are NOT Made of These!Below is a list of Bedroom Household Chemicals and products commonly used throughout your home. Because most of our time indoors is spent sleeping, indoor air quality in bedrooms is of particular importance. Our breathing during sleep also tends to be deeper than when we are awake so indoor air pollution gases and particles are more efficiently respired into our lungs. If you have any of these products inside your house I strongly recommend you read the label closely for storage, disposal, and usage instructions. Additionally, ventillation and the best home air purifier can reduce volatile organic compounds and dangerous chemical particles which results from areas in the home where many of these household chemicals are ultimately used. However, source reduction should be the first line of defense. If you must use these household chemicals or products you should give serious consideration toward isolating them from your living spaces and areas adjacent to living spaces. We will be adding specific chemical component information, manufacturer contact information, and MSDS information for many specific household chemicals and products in the near future.
The use of most of these common bedroom household chemicals and products can be elliminated or greatly reduced. Our page on non-toxic recipes and safe alternative household chemicals and products is currently in the works. The marketers and chemical industry hope you never break free of their grasp. They thrive by perpetuating the herd mentality of a specific product for a specific task. Unfortunately, marketing has a powerful effect on consumer decision and they take advantage of the public's poor understanding of the toxilogical and health consequences associated with our extreme addictions to chemical household products. The government is closely in bed with corporations and because of special interest groups and industry lobbyists the problem only worsens. Many hazardous substances proven to be carcinogenic such as those found in cosmetics, fragrances, and cleaning products are not even required to be disclosed as ingredients! This will inevitably have to change especially since CANCER IS NOW CLEARLY AN EPIDEMIC! It's a sad fact that we for the most part tend to be reactionary rather than proactive when it comes to suspected health hazards. Another large scale example of this is in regards to Global Warming, which is pretty much accepted as a given by the Scientific community given the mutitudes of inter-related and corroborating biological and physical evidence; however, governments won't affect change until the symptoms beget the full blown disease drasticly and undeniably. Of course industry will fight the coming curbs and regulations tooth and nail. Even the current watered down pre-emptive saber rattling is being vehemently stone-walled by multinational corporations. Consequently, change happens very slowly. An example of the above conundrum may be observed in the cigarette industry. Media's bread and butter comes from ad dollars and they are very reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them, so for decades the known health consequences of cigarettes weren't discussed via media sources benefiting from those ad dollars. A perfect example of sacrificing the good of the many for the gain of the few. This creates a powerful conflict of interest for us because we depend on media sources for important information about the world around us. Still worse is the fact that media ownership has been vastly consolidated to just a few major owners, all with vested interests in obscuring certain truths we need to know about. Because of these closed door arrangements the truth is obscured by big money until the envrionmental and health impacts are just too obvious to cover up. The resultant non-disclosures of the truth about such things as cigarette health hazards or hazardous household chemical ingredients is a big reason why our air, water, and food is contaminated with an ever growing list of detrimental chemical contaminants. It's the dark side of capitalism. But through this website I hope to affect some change, however small. Let's begin by reducing or ellinating the above bedroom household chemicals. Let's break free from our toxic codependancy to corporations!
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