By: Steve Miller
Maid Brigade's Green Cleaning System eliminates harsh, toxic chemicals to leave your home as clean and healthy as possible Ever since the advent of manufactured cleaning products, consumers have equated the smell of their cleaning products with their efficacy. We have confidence that our homes are clean and germfree because we can smell bleach, ammonia or fragrance additives in other cleaning chemicals and rest assured that we are doing something positive for our families' health. The irony is that these products commonly contain ingredients which can actually be harmful to our health, right down to the fragrances! One in five people experiences health problems when exposed to fragrances, whether in perfumes, air fresheners or other household consumables such as laundry detergent and deodorant. Fragrances in these products can trigger asthma and allergy attacks or worse. Most fragrance chemicals are respiratory irritants that trigger and compound asthma, allergies, sinus problems and worse. The ingredients in several top household brands of air fresheners include certain Volatile Organic Compounds, chemicals that keep the fragrance molecules airborne so the fragrances linger longer. These Volatile Organic Compounds commonly include propane, butane ethanol, and/or phthalates. Propane is a suspected neurotoxin and respiratory toxicant. Butane is a neurotoxicant. Scorecard.org reports that ethanol is suspected of several human health hazards, including carcinogen, developmental toxicant, endocrine toxicant, liver toxicant, neurotoxicant, reproductive toxicant and more. Needless to say, air fresheners and other fragranced products are not green due to these health risks. Maid Brigade's Green Clean Certified system provides the healthiest cleaning possible for the families we serve, using green cleaning solutions that bear minimal, if any, fragrance. After all, a truly healthy home should smell like nothing at all.
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