Greening up your laundry room part 1: Nature Bright
Over the next three Saturdays, I will be showing you how you can “green up” your laundry room. This week I will be talking about “brightners” and “bleaching”.
We all love to have brighter whites in the laundry. But is having brighter whites, at the expense of our families health, worth it? I dont think so. More Americans than not are clueless on the dangers of the household cleaners they are using in their homes. The craze to get rid of the germs and use everything “antibacterial” is out of control. I know, I’m a nurse and experience it first hand. We are spraying everything with toxic fumes (at the same time, breathing it in) and soaking our childrens clothes in bleach (and then covering their fragile skin in it)! We all think we are “disinfecting” the germs to make our children healthier, but really we are damaging their precious health instead.
Is bleach safe to wash our clothes in?
“Chlorine bleach releases dioxin, furans and other organochlorines into the air, can cause sore throats, coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs and studies have shown a relationship between dioxin exposure and cancer, birth defects, and developmental/reproductive disorders. Sounds like something you should be using to wash your clothes in, right? And although the above is all true, bleach is still the chemical of choice for whiter whites…but there are alternatives that are much safer for your family that you could be using.”
Did you know?
Chlorine is the chemical most frequently involved in household poisonings and is a
potent environmental pollutant. Chlorine is a part of a class of chemical
compounds that may cause reproductive, endocrine, and immune system disorders.
Chlorine should never be mixed with ammonia. This mixture can generate toxic
chloramine gas. Products that contain ammonia include some all-purpose and
bathroom cleaners, dishwashing detergents, and metal polishes. Chlorine also
degrades natural and synthetic fibers.
After educating myself on the dangers of bleach, Nature Bright is what I now use to clean my families’ clothes. Its the greener, safer, healthier choice to an un-necessary toxic cleaner.
NATURE BRIGHT
Babies. Grass. Mashed potatoes and
gravy. Some really nice things can cause
some really nasty stains. Some really nice
things can also get them out. Instead of
noxious chlorine, these natural enzymes
and active oxygen rebrighten laundry,
de-stain upholstery, and way more. Nice.
Nature Bright is…
SAFE
✔ Safe for use on all washable fabrics
✔ No chlorine
✔ Fragrance free
✔ No toxic fumes
✔ No hazardous chemicals
POWERFUL
✔ Powerful chlorine–free laundry
booster; natural enzymes keep
whites white and colors bright
✔ Powerful Stain Remover –
Outperformed Oxiclean® Versatile
by 50% on grass stains in third-party
performance tests*
✔ Performs in all temperatures,
even cold water
✔ Effective in soft or hard water
GREEN
✔ Natural – powered by natural
enzymes and active oxygen
✔ Biodegradable
✔ No phosphates
✔ No dyes
✔ Safe for septic tanks and graywater
How to clean with Nature Bright?
laundry (stains, brightner)
kitchen
carpets
bathroom (showers, sinks, toilets, bathtubs)
linoleum
lawn furniture
unfinished wood
general stain remover (blood, grass, etc.)
Powerful Laundry Booster – Natural enzymes and active oxygen keep
whites white and colors bright while removing stains.
• Excellent laundry pretreatment on organic stains like wine, blood, grass,
and much more.
• Powerful chlorine-free, laundry booster – effective alternative to
chlorine bleach.
• Color safe and can be used with any washable fabric.
Powerful Stain Remover – Removes stubborn stains on surfaces like
carpet, upholstery, kitchen, and bath surfaces and effectively cleans outdoor
patio furniture.
• Tackles the toughest organic stains and will effectively remove wine, grape
juice, blood, perspiration, grass, grease, food stains, coffee, mold and mildew
stains, and much more.
• Comes in a handy resealable pouch with measuring scoop.
Green up your laundry room right along with me!
You can purchase Nature Bright alone {here} or in the {Get Clean Starter Kit}! Email me {here} for my “NEW MEMBER SPECIALS”.
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11 comments on “Green options in the laundry room part 1”
I absolutely agree about bleach – we no longer use anything with bleach in it in our home. I have three people with bad allergies and I’m seeing that they are possibly improving as a result. I LOVE nature bright and have been amazed at how well it works!
Becky B.
http://www.organizingmadefun.blogspot.com
Organizing Made Fun
I just purchased some Nature Bright and am looking forward to my clothes smelling clean and not like bleach. I have never liked the smell of bleach, it gives me an instant headache. Thanks for an excellent post!
Jo @ Squeaky Clean!
http://www.squeakycleanlife.blogspot.com
I too just bought Nature Bright and love it. I put a little in my kitchen sink and let it soak and it is nice and bright and stains are gone.
Just got my Get Clean Mini Kit from last Sunday’s Autism Speaks fundraiser. Looking forward to a day of super cleaning! Thanks for such fast shipping. I don’t use bleach when doing laundry but may look into Shaklee’s other products.
I think that may be my next Shaklee purchase. I use bleach for my whites sometimes9it’s just me and my husband), but would like something safer.
Hi Toni! I am not a Shaklee user but desperatly want to be. I’m always crossing my fingers that I win a Shaklee giveaway. Now with a brand new baby in our home, I want it even more. I have a really weird question, please don’t laugh. 🙂 But if perchance, when my daughter is older, if she ingested some of the Shaklee product, would she get less sick than say if she ingested regular dish soap? Of course I’ll do everything to prevent either scenario but in the off chance she ingested something – is it as dangerous to ingest as regular cleaning products. Weird question, I know. 🙂 But I’m a new mom. 🙂
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I just got my first packet of Nature Bright, and I LOVE it! I’ve used it in my carpet steamer, laundry, and even used some to scrub toilets today. 🙂 It’s a dream!
IJUST got my Shaklee boxes yesterday! I can’t wait to try them out! And I can’t believe how much of a “sample” you get for the Cinch thing. I was expecting a small packet of powder for one shake, but I got a small jug of protein powder, some energy tea samples, and some peanut butter snack bars! Amazingly generous of them!
Jennifer B.
I just received my Nature Bright last week and used it for the first time on Friday – LOVE it! What I love more…no bleach!
Thanks so much!
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