How can I reduce toxins in the bathroom?

Here are some ways to reduce toxins in your bathroom: To protect your skin, filter your water with a carbon filter to remove the chlorine and other bad stuff. Do it especially for water that is in contact with your skin for more than a few seconds, like the baby's bathwater, and your bath and hair-rinsing water. Short showers are OK, since there's less exposure to toxins.

Use deodorant instead of antiperspirant, since sweat is normal and blocking the pores is not. Especially avoid deodorants and antiperspirants that contain: aluminum, which is found in high levels in the brain plaques linked to Alzheimer's disease. Phthalates, which are plastics used to help the fragrance stay on our skin and block endocrine function, especially in the male fetus.

Parabens, which are used as preservatives in these products and could be linked to breast cancer. Avoid air fresheners, which have gaseous chemicals like those found in moth balls, and the hockey-puck-shaped deodorants in urinals (for those readers lucky enough to frequent the male restroom). They can become toxic when combined with the ozone.

Here are some ways to keep your kitchen free of toxins: Don't microwave plastic; you'll get small amounts of it in your food when you heat it. Cover food with ceramic, glass, a paper towel, or waxed paper instead. Throw away your sponges and replace with ten dishcloths that you clean with bleach weekly.

Don't store foods in open cans for a long period, because the food will be exposed to chemicals such as epoxy resin and aluminum (it will also begin to taste metallic). In fact, reduce the number of canned foods that you consume. Bisphenol A, which mimics estrogen, is leached from the can liners into the foods.

For conga lines of insects, don't resort to toxic cans of bug killer, which is ineffective and unnecessary. Instead, clean the home, remove the clutter, and use boric-acid-based bait stations. Keep all cleaners up high (oven cleaner can burn the esophagus if children get hold of it).

Don't have any cleaner anyplace near where someone could drink it or spill it if it isn't okay to drink. Filter your drinking water. Use dishwasher soap without phosphates or chlorine or nonylphenol ethoxy-late (NPE), which is called a gender-bender and feminizes fish in the waters where we humans dump our waste.

Also make sure they are biodegradable and non-toxic so kids will survive if they decide to take a swig.

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