Many people ask the question, "What cleans well & doesn't cause health concerns?"
 
Please look at some of the commonly used cleaning products ... and see if you want to use them around your children ...
 
Help us find products that are safe to use
 
Educate ourselves on what is not
 
A little recognized, but very health-hazardous chemical is 2-butoxyethanol.

It is in widespread use, and should be suspect for causing diabetes & chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome.  This was used in the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup products:  Corexit and Inipol EAP 22.  It is a chemical exposure that 'gulf war syndrome' vets have in common with these workers

 

C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH 

CAS number 00111-76-2 

This is the complex form of 2-butoxyethanol

(note the Carbons and Hydrogens):

C8H18O3 / CH2(CH2)3OCH2CH2OCH2CH2OHDGME

CAS number 00112-34-5

& these have lots of other names

Blood Damage is Different

*

Learn the Difference Between Oil and

2-butoxyethanol Harm

b

I know a homemaker who was very diligent about cleaning throughout her life. At retirement age she came down with low red blood cell anemia and kidney problems, and high blood pressure and high blood sugar and agravated arthritis; Do you also have the CNS, personality changes, etc.? That is part of the package of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning. What was her favorite cleaning product? Lysol Tub 'n Tile

Those who clean are at risk - Exposure is cumulative? 

Moms should use goggles & gloves -this contains a complex type of 2-butoxyethanol

409 Cleaner contains 2-butoxyethanol AND ethylene oxide - It is most like Corexit, the Exxon dispersant

EYES: IRRITATION. SKIN: ABSORBED. EXPOSURE
TO ETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOBUTYL ETHER WILL CAUSE BLOOD & BONE MARROW DAMAGE.
Carcinogenicity - NTP: YES
Carcinogenicity - IARC: YES   OSHA: NO

  Learn that Corexit is  most like 409 Cleaner which was Banned by BP at North Slope site.

Sadly, just learned that the Equipment Dept of Alyeska uses it by the 'bucketful' NOT other depts, thankfully.  11-1-03

 
If a product has an EPA registration number, suspect that it has a pesticide in it

By some strange definition, the BUTYL Ethers are pesticides, solvents, surfactants, neurotoxins, teratogen type chemicals 
 
Housewives should also get MSDS info on the products they use