Source: Natural News By now, most NaturalNews readers have realized that mainstream household cleaning products are filled with toxic chemicals. Typical household cleaners, including window cleaners, bathroom tile cleaners, toilet cleaners and kitchen cleaning products, are frequently loaded with toxic chemicals. These chemicals include benzene-based chemical solvents (many of which promote cancer), artificial fragrances, artificial colors and more. In fact, the cleaning products aisle of a typical grocery store is a tour of toxicity featuring chemicals that cause cancer, Alzheimer's disease, liver disorders, kidney problems, reproductive disorders and much more. Use these products in your house long enough and you just might find yourself suffering from serious degenerative disease.

It's a fact: Neither the FDA nor the EPA has never tested nor approved most of the chemicals used in household cleaning products. They are experimental, synthetic chemicals and they're not only toxic for you, they're also extremely toxic to the environment.

The challenge, though, has always been "So what should I use instead?" Are there household cleaning products that are truly natural, safe for you and your family, and that actually work to get the cleaning jobs done?

Searching for a natural product that works
Over the last two months, I traveled to several natural products trade shows in California, including Expo West and the Health Freedom Expo. I was looking for safe, natural home cleaning products that I could review and recommend to NaturalNews readers. While I found quite a large number of products that were natural, there were two problems with most of them:

Problem #1) Huge amount of natural fragrance. Some home cleaning products were so loaded with fragrance that I couldn't even stand to be in their trade show booths. I wanted something that had no added fragrance and smelled nice but not overpowering.

Problem #2) Watered-down formulas. Virtually all the natural cleaning products I found were watered-down formulas, where the consumer is buying mostly water. What I wanted was a concentrate where I could add water myself and avoid buying and shipping excessive water in the product bottle itself (it's very expensive to ship water).

Jackpot at the Health Freedom Expo!
A few weeks later, I was chatting with Robert Scott Bell at the Expo West show. Robert is the radio host of the super-popular Robert Scott Bell Show (http://robertscottbell.blogspot.com) which is without a doubt the best health freedom radio show on the air today.

Robert introduced me to Bill Tufts, a former environmental attorney in Canada who has dedicated a lifetime of work to protecting water resources and the environment. Thanks to his professional focus, Bill became acutely aware of the environmental toxicity of mainstream cleaning products. The chemicals in those products cause frogs to have both male and female reproductive organs; they kill the fish, pollute the oceans and create a toxic world.

With all the toxic products they purchase, most consumers are literally poisoning the planet with the chemicals they dump down the drain. To help solve this problem, Bill set out to develop a safe and truly natural cleaning product that was not only incredibly powerful and effective around the house, but was also safe for aquatic life downstream and didn't pose any threat whatsoever to the environment.

The secret of d'limonene
And he found it! Locked within the cells of orange peels, there is a natural chemical called d'limonene which turns out to be an ultra-powerful cleaner that is both remarkably strong while still being safe for the environment.

As Bill Tufts explains in an interview in The Health Crusader (http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/...):

"A study was conducted by the World Health Organization in 1992 on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. d’limonene was the highlight in this study, and it was declared that not only was d’limonene non-carcinogenic, it was actually anti-carcinogenic. The conclusion was that d’limonene was safe in all respects and the US FDA gave it a rating of GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe). This report was published in 1993. It was also determined that d’limonene was non-ozone depleting and was in a position to replace toxic chemical cleaners, which were not only toxic, but carcinogenic to the users as well as ozone-depleting."

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