A 15 year study in Oregon, USA comparing women who didn’t work outside the home with women who did, found a 54% higher death rate from cancer in the women who stayed home. The study suggested that chronic exposure to cleaning products played a role.

Accidental poisoning from household chemicals is one of the most common forms of poisoning in toddlers and young children today.

We all put medication and pain killers out of reach of children, but we tend to keep household cleaning products in the cupboard under the sink!

According to the World Health Organisation, a pollutant released indoors is 1000 times more likely to reach a person’s lungs than a pollutant released outdoors.

• Domestic pollution causes more environmental damage than industrial pollution
• It takes about 800 years for a standard shower gel to degrade
• “Chemicals from products that we use in our homes every day are contaminating Arctic wildlife.” - Colin Butfield, a campaign leader for the Worldwide Fund for Nature

Anti-bacterial products tend to contain the chemical Triclosan, which can pose far more of a risk than the bacteria it kills. After all, we need some exposure to bacteria to help build up our body’s immunity system

Research is beginning to bear out that if we keep our children too over-sanitised, they will not build up strength and resistance to even ordinary colds and bugs