Here are FIVE quick things you can do today to make your surroundings healthier for

OUR Earth Day, Every Day Project!

#2 GO THROUGH YOUR BATHROOM, KITCHEN, LAUNDRY, GARAGE, AND YARD. As you go, dump Febreze, Clorox, Listerine and other toxic products. This information may shock you! This is not from a "kook" source! To find out what's lurking on your shelves, Go to the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine Household Products Database, see link below. You can search almost any brand of product you use daily, find out what's in it, and uncover its links to health effects. Or search by chemical ingredients (see list below for some examples) and discover what brands contain it. Chemical ingredients to look out for: Sodium Hydroxide, Hydrochloric acid, Butyl cellosolve (2-Butoxyethanol), Formaldehyde, Bleach (sodium hypochlorite), Ammonia, Sulfamic Acid, Petroleum distillates, Sulfuric acid, Lye (potassium hydroxide), Morpholine. One or even a thousand exposures may not be "that" harmful...but millions of exposures over years from hundreds of products is. Did you know that women at home have a 54% higher risk of cancer? And that a study linked that statistic to harmful household cleaners? Let's turn that around fast!

[SAVE THIS FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: http://www.householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/products.htm]

#3 CREATE A SHOPPING LIST. How soon can you switch brands to safe alternatives? I can help you figure out some transition orders of non-toxic paraben free make up, paraben free personal care items like shampoos, conditioners, baby products--as well as nutrition products that help our bodies detox. Do it all at once or little by little. Our GREEN CLEAN Kit of cleaners (featured 5 times on Oprah) saves you from buying $3,400.00 worth of the "bad stuff" .

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        The kit makes a big impact as it keeps 108 pounds of packaging waste out of landfills, eliminates 248 pounds of greenhouse gases, and is the equivalent of planting 10 trees.    A HEALTHY HOME Kit is a great gift for Weddings, Showers & Birthdays & ESPECIALLY A GREAT GIFT FOR YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY & OUR PLANET!

#4 CALCULATE YOUR HOUSEHOLD'S CARBON EMISSIONS. 

        It's easy. Go to our page at American Forests ttp://www.americanforests.org/campaigns/shaklee/ and fill in info about your cars, your heating/air, etc. When you push "calculate," you're shown how many trees you could plant to erase your CO2 footprint on the earth, and offset your pollution. We started doing that in 2000--aren't you glad your consumer dollars support a company like that?

#5 JOIN OUR MILLION TREES/MILLION DREAMS campaign by planting as many trees as you can! Did you know that a mature tree absorbs between 120-240 pounds per year of small particles and gases, like carbon-dioxide, which are released into the air by cars and industry? A single tree also produces nearly three-quarters of the oxygen required for one person; and a canopy of trees in an urban environment can slash smog levels up to six percent. American Forests reports that just 25,000 acres of forest can offset the equivalent emissions of 10 billion automobile miles. And you can plant right online! My faves are http://www.americanforests.org/, or http://www.arborday.org/shopping/gifts.cfm, or http://www.treesftf.org/main.htm, or http://www.treegreetings.com/

If you'll tell me how many you planted, I'll be glad to turn them in to count. We're more than half way to a million and would LOVE your help!

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The Real Dirt on Clean

Are you really living in a healthy home? You know that good, healthy feeling you get when you've just cleaned house? Sorry to spoil it, but you may have just made your home dirtier. Think of it this way. You wouldn't let your kids play with toxic chemicals, so why would you let the baby crawl over a floor that's just been wiped with them? That's much more dangerous than the orange juice that was just there. How dangerous? Just take a look at these statistics. Over 90% of poison exposures happen at home. Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involved in poisoning. Organic pollutants, found in many common cleaners and even air fresheners, are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out. A person who spends 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls could inhale three times the "acute one-hour exposure limit" for glycol ether-containing products set by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Common cleaners give off fumes that have been linked to increasing the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common serious chronic childhood disease.

LET US MAKE EARTH DAY EVERY DAY BY MAKING THE COMMITMENT TO LIVE A  HEALTHIER  GREENER LIFE FOR OUR FAMILIES AND OUR PLANET....

TOGETHER, WE REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

LET'S START TODAY.

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IT WILL HELP CHANGE LIVES AND SAVE OUR PLANET ONE PERSON AT A TIME.