I was reading the Sunday Times magazine this weekend. There was a really good article in there by Christina Robert, but as Murdoch has now put up a pay wall, I can’t just link to it from here! So just thought I’d summarise some of the excellent points made.

Christina mentions in the article that choosing to detox her cleaning at home was “the easiest lifestyle change I ever made”. She made the green cleaning choice because there is a consensus that the chemicals we have been using to clean with for the past 30 years have polluted water systems and been linked to an increase in asthma, allergies, super-bugs, auto-immune disorders and skin sensitivities. The build up of industrial chemicals inside us is like a toxic overload and is referred to as our “body burden”, a burden that our great-grandparents’ bodies never knew.

With trial and error, along the way Christina learnt that “water is the most effective cleaning agent we have”. Cleaning should really be all about removing, not about destroying. Regular cleaning and sensibly hygiene mean that “unless you’re preparing for surgery, a little soap and water is all you need”. Antibacterial chemicals destroy ALL bacteria, good and bad, just as antibiotics do.