Becoming a member of the Organic Cycle and a regular user of organic laundry products is much easier to do than you might imagine. Of course it requires a certain amount of "laundry day rethinking."

Thinking about how you organize your laundry chores. About what soaps and/or detergents you buy and use. Even something as simple as where and how you store those laundry products.

All these things will ultimately have an impact on your health--and your family's!

In the past, we were taught to keep "dangerous chemicals" out of the reach of children. In theory, a good and honorable practice. After all, you love your family, and would never do anything to endanger them.

Nowadays, it's not that easy, though...

And it's not entirely your fault that you can't keep all those dangerous chemicals out of the reach of your kids!

Non- organic laundry products are to blame. Particularly those commercial products you buy off the shelf at your favorite store. Tide, Cheer, Chlorox, etc. The list is very long.

Companies such as Continental Chemicals USA, Cosco Soap & Detergent Co., and Liberty Industries, Inc., among others, are all manufacturers and distributors of non- organic laundry products, soaps, aerosols, and cleaning solutions.

They provide the basic liquid and powder materials to packagers such as Proctor & Gamble, Dial Corporation, the Clorox Company and others for their products. Detergents, soaps, stain sprays, bleaches, color boosters and so forth.

A whole range of non- organic laundry products that you use weekly if not daily...

In accordance with the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the chemical industry has been allowed to stamp a “trade secret” claim on the identity of two-thirds of all chemicals introduced to the market in the last 27 years. Source: Environmental Working Group (EWG).

These chemical ingredients are used in numerous consumer and children’s products. Ingredients such as "optical brighteners" and "surfactants."

Optical brighteners serve no purpose in laundry products other than making your laundry "appear clean." Briefly, surfactants work at the molecular level to make dirt and grime break loose from your clothes.

Meaning, optical brighteners and surfactants are not really necessary ingredients for clean clothes!

In fact, several of the chemicals that make up optical brighteners and surfactants have been shown to cause cancer in humans and animals!

These companies have no obligation to you to manufacture and sell safe products.

Their bottom line is plain and simple: PROFITS.

Your health be damned, the environment be damned, your family's health be damned...

It may seem like a long way up the steps when you're standing at the bottom, but the effort will be well worth it! In terms of your and your family's long-term well-being...

Non- organic laundry products can become a thing of the past. But only if you are willing to become a active member of the Organic Cycle.

This is not something you should ignore any longer. Your health and your family's health may depend on it. As well, the environment really does need your help.

Become a working member of the Organic Cycle.

Step 1:  Take an honest and accurate inventory of all your non-organic laundry products.

That list should include detergents and soaps, color boosting solutions, stain removers, bleaches and non-bleaching whitening products, spot removers, pre-soaking products, disinfecting liquids... Anything that you use to do laundry.

Your list might include other laundry products not mentioned here, but you get the idea. It's all about becoming aware of the hidden hazards of non- organic laundry products.

Step 2: Eliminate all those non- organic laundry products from your home.

Make a vow to not buy anything that might harm you and your family, now or in the future.

Scientists and researchers are showing that the effects of some chemicals on humans doesn't show up for decades! So, a little planning on your part goes a long way towards making our world a safer and healthier place.

Anything that you do now as a member of the Organic Cycle will pay dividends. Not only for you and your family on a personal level, but for society and the environment on a larger scale.

Step 3: Start buying organic laundry products.

Spend time researching them on the Internet.

Search for their ingredients, which you can usually find on the product manufacturers' websites. Or do a search for their Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).

A good place to start is by clicking on one of the Google advertisers' links in the box at the top right of this page. I screen those advertisers, ensuring that every one offers only organic and/or pesticide-free products.

Step 4: Get everyone you know involved in the Organic Cycle.

Your efforts are magnified when your friends, acquaintences and business associates become aware and join the Organic Cycle. You can help them do that.

Introduce them to my website. Get them investigating their own commercial products for themselves. Find new sources and write about them here (below) and elsewhere.

Facebook your ideas, Tweet them, add them to your favorite blogs. Do whatever it takes to get the word out about the dangers of non- organic laundry products.

Participate in action groups, including consumer groups, environmental protection organizations (there is lots to do!), community improvement and awareness groups and many other like-minded Organic Cycle projects.

There's no rest for the wicked--the chemical manufacturers--so don't stop...


Step 5: Don't ever stop being a member of the Organic Cycle, caring about your environment and sharing what you know!

Do you have some advice you want to give? Or maybe a pro or con opinion on a product or the information on my website? Share it with the world!