If you are still not yet convinced that cleaning and personal care products are harmful to your health and to the health of your children, consider this: many cleaning and personal care products are legally defined as "household hazardous waste."
YES, hazardous waste.
According to the San Francisco Household Hazardous Waste Program, these household products, and others, are hazardous waste:
Our government does not allow us to throw these items in the trash and send them to the landfill because they are hazardous materials.
Many communities have established special Household Hazardous Waste Pick-up Days to collect these products and place them in special toxic-waste dumps.
So why, oh why, are we using these products in our homes and around our children, especially when there are safer products available?