Contamination Control

Solvents

House owners are by far the biggest polluters in this department. This is not to say it is their fault, for the most part, they never had much of a choice. For years the Direct Sales industry has been producing soaps and detergents that are bio-degradable and non-toxic. From the results of tests done by BizzHub.net, they also proved to be as effective and maybe more so.

1000 homes will dump 1 ton of laundry compound into the sewer systems every month. In East London one can visit ‘First Creek’ and see the results, the rocks are covered with slime, nothing can live there, and then it all flows into the Buffalo River mouth. Seaweed along the coastline has been depleted, therefore fish cannot live inshore. The cycle has continued for years.

We have not even begun to address the damages caused by the aggressive oven cleaners for instance. Alternatives? Plenty, one Super 10 product we found can be used as an oven cleaner, insecticide, stain remover, stove cleaner and you can drink it! Which one would you want your child or Grandchild playing with?

Our sincere recommendation is to find some sincere Network Marketer or Direct Saleslady, tell them you want Bio Degradable Soaps, explain the service levels you require, and hold them to it. You win when you have to by-pass a whole aisle in the supermarket.

Chemicals

The Government has recently begun banning chemicals that we have known for years. Brand names like Dazzle, Chlorpyriphos are organo-phosphate insecticides. The problem is that they are deadly to humans as well. Many an old farmer can testify to the damage to their lungs from years of inhaling even the fumes at the weekly dipping of his cattle.

We do not need to use these products and we certainly do not want to keep them lying around where little hands can find them.

Going Green will eventually bring you to the point where you start your own permaculture. Your own garden fed with organic waste and recycled water from your house.

In this environment you do not need chemical solvents or chemical pesticides and inorganic fertilizers.

The writer once asked the question on TV, ‘When last did you see a rotten, red ripe tomato?’ Consider that they are grown in polystyrene or similar, fed on a drip with inorganic fertilizers, they never see the sun, and their seeds cannot germinate. Tupperware cannot rot.

Paint and Wood Preservatives

We breathe in many contaminants from materials used in our homes. New Carpets and other materials do have an impact on our health. The worst has been paint and especially enamel paints. Enamel paint was traditionally bulked up with lead which leached out into the environment and into us. Heavy metals are poisonous to us, they store in the body for years causing many diseases.

Paint companies are today doing more and more to curb these cheap practices. Our demand is driving this. You can now get a water based enamel paint, which works tremendously well. Even professional artists have begun to use this as a base on their oil paintings.

More toxic than the paints have always been the solvents. We can reduce our demand for these by simply not using them. We have noticed a recent trend of people rather buying a second or third brush instead of thinners and turpentine. When finished for the day, wrap the brush up in jiffy wrap so that it is fresh for tomorrow, or wrap it up and throw it away.

Plascon has recently launched a complete range of non-toxic paint strippers. They take longer to work but do an incredible job in that they get in under the old paint and literally remove all.

Drugs.

We touch only on this point to bring public awareness. In a vast majority of cases when we get sick it does not mean that we are deficient in a certain chemical (drug). Our feeling is that it is all too easy to prescribe a drug without any consideration to other routes to healing. No drug heals; every drug has a side effect. May common sense prevail.