Humans, by nature, are self-centered beings. That's a good thing, because we learn first how to protect our own, our families', our friends' and our communities' interests. My whole purpose in writing the Organic Products Education page is  bring you up-to-date facts about a variety of organic and non-organic topics. Offering you what I think is important information related to maintaining your health, your family's health, and your environment's health. The three are and always will be intertwined. Something we are all involved with on a daily basis.

Getting Things Straight

The companies and outlets, whether brick and mortar or an Internet presence, that sell you the products you use regularly have one main interest. I'm sure you already know what that interest is. Profits, profits, profits. Right?

The stock holders have vested interests, meaning they want a profit on their shares. To paraphrase Shakespeare from one of his plays: "They paid their money and they took their pick." That pick was profits. Lots of money to be had at someone else's expense, those profits.

In my opinion, there are many things wrong with that kind of narrow-minded thought processes. For one, product responsibility is typically left to board of directors or management oversight. Big mistake. Every single person in the corporate structure has a responsibility to honor and respect the health and welfare of their customer, including stockholders, with no exceptions. They need to get organic products education.

Questioning the Authorities

Stockholders should start asking questions. Of their board of diretors and of their management. Here's a strange fact: stockholders are allowing themselves to be violated by their own companies. The products we use usually come from the same manufacturers, don't they? The stockholders are getting sick from this stuff too. So why aren't they railing against this kind of irresponsibility in their own companies?

Another wrong is a lack of leadership where it concerns not polluting but protecting our shared environments, indoors and outdoors. Corporations don't have the right to endanger our health in any way. In fact, they are obligated by law not to violate our persons, whether that be health or abiding by the simple tenents of the Organic Cycle and protecting our shared environment.

Even dogs know better than to mess where they live. Why can't we? How civilized we humans have become in our modernity. Right now, our civilization must pay close attention to what has been done to our lives, the lives of others and our living places. And getting an organic products education.

Protective Measures

For one, get educated on organic products

Educating yourself is the primary way to defend against that particular kind of ignorance called narrow-mindedness.  With information available on the Internet by the giga-buckets, you and I don't have to remain in the dark any more. Research on any subject whatsoever and you will find more related information than you can possibly use. That is a very good thing.

My first little bit of advice to you is this: start yourself along the Organic Cycle by ridding your home and work places of commercially-made cleaning products. Find home-made solutions on the Internet. There are thousands of home solutions out there, and most work. They find their origins with our grandparents and their grandparents, and so on. Traditions. Time-tested. Efficient and inexpensive. And non-polluting.

Secondly, read the labels

Like you do with foodstuffs for your diet. Same principals apply. You're beginning to get familiar with all the ingredients on the food label, so why not take that one step further. Many commercially-produced soap, detergent and cleaning products have vague if not missing ingredient listings. Many manufacturers hide their true ingredients on their Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).

MSDS are those boring techy things with numbers and chemical descriptions only an engineer or a chemist could love and understand. And government citations fit for a bureaucrat. Ingredients like "fragrance." Many deodorant products and bodywash products contain  "fragrance." It's not the kind of fragrance you're thinking of, believe me.

Fragrance has been identified as a human immune system toxicant. It lowers your resistance to illnesses. (Source: SCCNFP - The Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products Intended for Consumers, 1999). And it's used in almost every body, hair and skin healthcare product on the market.

You become an active member of the Organic Cycle by becoming smarter about what many manufacturers are doing to you and your family's health and your environment's health without your permission.

You add energy to the Organic Cycle by getting your family and friends actively involved and educated. Visit my site often to get the latest Organic Cycle news and organic product education possible.

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