TOP Green Products....

Top 5 Green products we bring into our homes:

1. Dish Soap and Laundry Detergent: These products are readily available at a great price in almost all local stores, including locally owned stores. Prices are awesome (at Costco the ECO laundry detergent is HALF the price of other detergents, and works like a charm!), and we make it a priority to purchase these products because of the mark that other detergents (laundry and dish) leave on our bodies (to be ingested or worn) and in the residual water system, which then leads to more harmful chemicals being needed to clean the water, and perpetuates this vicious cycle of chemical toxicity!
2. Cleaning Products: Products such as these just became SUPER popular and available all over the market. Everywhere from Walmart to your local health food store carry them. Example of a reason why we use these: Swiffer products have been linked to numerous pet deaths because of the chemicals that are used to clean the floors in homes. Sprays, liquids, and other chemicals used to “clean” (get rid of bacteria in a flash) are also killing, whether we notice an immediate effect or not. The label poisonous is directly printed on their bottles. Think about it….
3. Bananas: Because of where they are grown (Australia, Hawaii, etc), they are picked green and when they arrive to Canada, they are put in a gas chamber to ripen. Really?? Even though we don’t ingest the peel (well WE don’t…), these chemicals leach into the fruit and enter into our bodies. There are other Fruits and Veggies which receive the ripening gas, so do some research, where is it coming from, when was it picked, etc.
4. Grapes, Peaches, Tomatoes, etc (fruits with really thin skin): All the pesticides used to grow and prevent insect invasion soak directly into the fruit because of the thin layer of skin… yummmm
5. Meat: Hormone injected animals…. Do we need to say more?

This is our list for now, they are the products that we have made an conscious effort to keep green in our homes.

Note: Children, because they are in the process of growing, are much more susceptible to the chemicals in food and products.... Think about it, just think about it, that’s all we ask!

Test your edible products! Taste the difference between organic and non-organic foods.

Try this: 1. Buy a organic banana and a non-organic banana, eat the organic first then try the non-organic one... you decided!

2. Another one that literately makes your nose hairs stand on end is dried apricots. From the grocery store buy some non- organic dried apricots (the nice orange ones) and then from a health food store buy some organic dried apricots (brown, bc. there is no sulfur added to preserve the colour). Eat a couple of the organic apricots first, then crack the non-organic bag and just take a wiff, the sulfur smell is BRUTTALLLL, you will be blowwwwn away!

What are some of your priorities?

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