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Big Cleaning

2024-08-08 Mama Minimalist

Scientists have found unsettling details about the potential health risks of common household cleaning products. And yet Big Cleaning capitalizes on fear of germs, bacteria, and disease to sell us home cleansers with traditional chemical compounds on the regular.

It behooves us to ask ourselves whether the ways things have always been done align with our own values. On today’s show Zac Kieffer argues it’s high-time we redefine what it means to clean.

Here’s a preview:

[3:00] Three reasons why it’s important to perpetually question the way we clean and disinfect

[8:00] Are you disinfecting correctly? (Answer: Probably not.)

[16:00] Ammonia! 2-Butoxyethanol! BACs! Here’s what cleaning companies don’t want you to know about the (very powerful) chemical compounds in traditional cleansers

[21:00] Big Cleaning and fear-based marketing

[28:00] Does microfiber = microplastics?

Resources mentioned:

Episode #417: How To Buy Soap
E-Cloth (Minimalists15 for 15% off site-wide)
Cleaning Products Emit Hundreds of Hazardous Chemicals, New Study Finds (via EWG)

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