How to Keep your Family Safe from Toxic Chemicals

Want to know how to keep your home and family, chemical-free? Read this guest post from Dan Chabert of Contractorculture.com.

You probably have heard on the radio or read on the internetabout toxic chemicals like BPA or Phthalates and how they can put your whole family in great danger once they find access to your body. As a caring parent, conventional wisdom leads you to keep everything in the house clean.

However, one peculiar thing about the toxic chemical is that they are found everywhere. This makes it almost impossible to avoid them.

How then do you limit the exposure?

For starters, chemical jitters and environmental exposures have been shown to greatly contribute to diseases like autism, childhood cancers, asthma and others.

All these health problems are as a result of chemical elements traveling through the bloodstream which may affect the development of body tissue and organs.

We have compiled a list of safer options that will lead to a chemical-free life.

Be a Safer Sunscreen Expert

You probably have used sunscreen protection during summer to protect your skin. However, medical researchers have indicated that not all conventional sunscreens are beneficial. Some are harmful and full of toxic fragrances. In fact, you may not know it but there are no federal regulations that make sunscreens “natural” as portrayed in adverts.

Multiple brands contain phthalates a preservative which causes reproductive and developmental toxicity, cancer and hormone disruptions.

Before you make a purchase, make sure you read how the product is manufactured and the ingredients in it.

Avoid Lead exposure

Lead is a very dangerous element, especially to the expectant women. Lead poisoning can lead to giving birth to an underdeveloped child.

If your current house was built before 1978, chances are that the paint was manufactured using lead. Tiny fragments of lead paintcould be floating in the air both inside and outside your house and may have detrimental effects on your family. You can choose to repaint the house to avoid the effects.

Consequently, if you are probably living near a lead factory, take advice from the experts and leave those premises. Lead dust from the factory may cause unwanted results on the whole family.

Adapt to Safer Ways to Stay Hydrated

For a healthy lifestyle, staying hydrate is not even an option but an essential. Carefully storing your drinks may help you avert many toxins. If you happen to store your juice or water in a plastic bottle, it’s high time you revolutionize and start using glass or stainless steel bottles.

The reason why plastic bottles are supposed to be avoided is because they are vulnerable to heat energy. Once they are exposed they tend to give out a hazardous chemical called BPA. When your family comes across BPA expect messy results. BPA chemical predisposes them to prostrate and breast cancers later in life.

The chemical also happens to lower fertility by interfering with the normal development of the ovaries and sperms.

Find Safer Ways to gets Bugs off your Roof

Biting bugs are undoubtedly a major turn off. They can spread chronic diseases or cause allergic reactions to the whole family at large.

To counter the bugs means dousing your family with toxic chemicals which are often harmful. You may opt for natural bug repellents whose ingredients are non-toxic and are mainly essential oils. All this is to get a non-toxic and bug-free life.

If the bugs are a big problem and the only option is using a bug spray, it’s important to know how to use it effectively. Observe safety tips like wearing long clothes and avoiding skin and eye contact with the spray.

Observe Food and Grilling Safety

It’s always a good time sharing a barbecue with your family during picnics. However, observing food safety helps you stay a chemical free life. Limiting foods high in animal fat has been famed to reduce numerous of toxic elements like animal fat buildup.

Additionally, store and prepare your food with a lot of hygiene and if possible, make your food at home instead of opting for canned foods and beverages.

Keeping your kitchen utensils clean by a large margin reduces the risk of toxic chemicals.

Final Thoughts

As you can see, staying a chemical free life doesn’t have to be rocket scientist. Its all about getting right the minute details we normally choose to ignore. We hope our tips will help keep your family safe by making them a daily creed.

About the Author:

Dan Chabert – Writing from Copenhagen, Denmark, Dan is an award-winning web lover and the Co-manager of several sites for your house needs and others. You can check these out That Sweet Gift, Borncute, Contractorculture, and Runner Click. He is a travel Scholar at the same time a health enthusiast.

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