How to Minimize Chemical Exposure in the Home
ESSENTIAL PROCESS, INC.
Noreen Ziegler, DVM, CNC
Taken from Integrative Health Seminars - Janet R. Lang, DC

      “What the public doesn’t understand is that your house is the
         hazardous waste site.  All the things in your house are made
         of the same chemicals that are on the hazardous lists.”
                                 -- Wayne Ott
                                      from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                                     (EPA), where he worked for over 30 years

Studies have shown that our greatest exposure to pollution
             comes from the air in our homes.

WHAT TO DO:

  1. Use a cool air essential oil diffuser in your home/office to clean the air.  
    Essential Process offers a diffuser that is designed to disperse the oils
    in a micro-fiber vapor.  This allows the oils to stay suspended in the air
    to reduce bacteria, fungi and mold.
  2. If possible, use an ozone/ion generator air purifier, and if needed, air
    filtration.  (Be sure you understand how to use these, as excessive
    ozone can cause problems.)
Ozone/ion generators purify the air in the same manner that
Nature does (e.g., after a thunderstorm), destroying the toxic
chemical hormone disrupters by oxidizing them.  Such generators
pull the dust out of the air by oxidation, and kill mold, fungus and
bacteria by the same means.
New carpets, building materials, fabrics, dry-cleaned clothes,
etc., can be quickly outgassed with ozone/ion air purifiers.
This is especially useful for people with allergy, asthma and other
lung problems.
  1. Ventilate.  Open windows and doors regularly, unless you live near
    traffic or are in a congested urban setting.  Use fans to mobilize indoor
    air.
  2. Be sure air conditioning and heating systems are clean and
    uncontaminated with dust, fungus, etc.  Change filters regularly.
  3. DO NOT warm or heat food or beverages in plastic containers or plastic
    wrap.
  4. Install shower filters to cut down on the chloroform that forms in steam,
    which then infiltrates the entire house.  (Or install a whole-house water
    filter.)
  5. DO NOT paint, remodel or install new carpets when you cannot
    ventilate to promote the outgassing of the toxic chemicals, or
  6. Use ozone/ion purifiers to promote the outgassing and protect the
    home occupants.
  7. DO NOT USE air freshener sprays, plug-ins, or any other household
    chemical sprays or deodorizers.  [Diffusers, available at Essential
    Process, with Young Living essential oils remove odors, clean the air
    and leave a fresh scent.]
  8. DO NOT USE scented detergents or fabric softeners.  These scents
    permeate your clothes, bed coverings, towels, etc., and in turn end up
    scenting your entire house with hormone disrupters.
  9. Use safe cosmetics and personal care products, uncontaminated home
    cleaning products, etc.  [Essential Gold – all natural soap]
  10. Use a vacuum cleaner with a good filter.  HEPA (high-efficiency particle
    air) filters are the best.
  11. DO NOT smoke in the house…DO NOT Smoke!
  12. If you have an attached garage, do not cool down or warm up your car
    in it.  DO NOT store gasoline or kerosene in the garage.
  13. DO NOT use candles – most scented candles (as with most scented
    products in general) are potentially quite toxic.  [Diffusers, available at
    Essential Process, with Young Living essential oils remove odors, clean
    the air and leave a fresh scent.]
  14. DO NOT use chemical pesticides or fertilizers on your lawn or garden.  
    These are tracked into the house where they concentrate, especially in
    carpets.  These chemicals are among the most power hormone
    disrupters.  [Essential Gold – all natural pesticide]
  15. Anyone who works in an environment with chemicals and contaminants
    brings these pollutants home on their clothes and shoes.  Remove such
    clothing immediately upon entering the home, or the chemicals will get
    into the fabrics of furniture, the dust in the air, the carpets, etc., where
    they gradually build up over time.  Wash these clothes separately from
    others.
  16. Use other sources of disinfectant for hot tubs (such are ozone – look on
    the web).
  17. DO NOT use flea shampoos for pets.  [Essential Gold – all natural
    shampoo will kill and repel fleas.]
  18. DO NOT use flea collars or monthly spot-on flea chemicals for pets.  
    [Essential Gold – all natural flea repellent]
  19. “Applying common flea pesticide treatments to carpets in the home
    creates levels twice above the legal limit, even when windows are open,
    and six times above the legal limit when windows are closed.  The
    bottles will state that it is safe to return home several hours after
    application.  This is not true.”1   Twenty-four hours with ventilation is
    necessary, or better still, use ozone/ion air purifiers.

”The typical American home contains sixty-three hazardous
products.”  (Most of these hazardous materials are in the form of
cleaning supplies, lawn and garden products and automotive
supplies.)

“Eighty percent of most exposure to pesticides occurs inside the
home.  Up to a dozen pesticides have been measured in most
homes.”2


                1Berkson, D. Lindsey, Hormone Deception, p280
                 2Ibid. p255