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Originally Posted by hopeforchange
lisa, i would to hear more about how you transitioned to the no chemicals/fragrances/colors. also about how you clean your house vs. disinfect it.
i definitely agree about us needing to be exposed to things in order for our immune system to be strengthened. i am so unconcerned about germs that i would prolly totally freak some of you out. but my dd is rarely sick and has only been on one antibiotic in her life. i recently bought some hand sanitizer only b/c all the swine flu stuff made me paranoid, but i guess i'll toss it now.
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No biggie, really. I don't shop at a supermarket. We use Charlie's Soap for laundry. The only cleaner I buy is Bon Ami cleanser for the kitchen sink. I make my own cleaners for everything else out of vinegar, water, and natural dish soap. 7th Gen for the dishwasher. We don't have carpet so I sweep as needed (the kitchen needs it 3x a day!) and I have a Shark steam mop that uses only water for the floors. So everything gets cleaned and, essentially, that rinses/wipes all the "germs" away because all the surface dirt, oil, etc is gone so there's nothing for them to cling to but I do not use chemical disinfectants.
I take hand washing pretty seriously--always after the toilet, when we get home, and before eating or preparing food. But I will not use chemical disinfectants on my body, either, and if we're in a park or something we just eat.
I used to be kind of a germ-a-phobe and that started to change after reading The Maker's Diet. It wa very liberating! I used to get anxiety in hotel rooms, etc. Especially after my dh having practically no immune system and him blowing away his doctors with how he stayed infection-free during that time, it really sealed it for me--the chemical disinfectants are not worth it for us, we see them as doing more harm than good.
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