Are the cleaning products you use in your home safe? And worst yet, could they be causing wrinkles?  We’ve created a chart of chemicals found in daily household cleaning products along with their common side effects.

Download it and keep it in a handy place around the house.  Please feel free to share this with your family and friends.  Chemicals to Avoid Chart

I trust that you already know, as a Delight Cleaning customer, you are safe. We use some of the best plant-based cleaning products available so that your home is clean and safe.

Additionally, we never purchase cheap, commercial-grade or “industrial chemicals”, which can be high in either acid content or Butyl Cellosolve. Products like Hydrofluoric Acid, which are sometimes used in commercial grade bathroom cleaners, are great for removing all of the stains and germs found in a gas station bathroom, but way too dangerous for your home. Hydrofluoric Acid both in liquid and vapor form can burn skin, eyes and respiratory tract.

Chemicals to Avoid Chart

Ammonia

Found in Glass Cleaner, All Purpose Cleaner and Sudsy Ammonia /Cloudy Ammonia

• A colorless gaseous alkaline compound, which is a volatile chemical that can damage your eyes, respiratory tract and skin.
• Very reactive with chemicals such as household bleach and acid based cleaners such as Toilet Bowl Cleaners.

Bleach

Found in household laundry bleach and numerous other cleaning products

• A strong corrosive product that can damage the skin, eyes, respiratory tract and mucous membranes. Harmful if swallowed.
• Nausea, vomiting and burning sensation of the mouth and throat may occur.
• NEVER mix bleach with ammonia, as the fumes can be deadly.

Butyl Cello solve or ethylene glycol mono butyl ether (EGBE)

Found in Glass Cleaner or All Purpose Cleaner and Carpet Spot Removers

• Can depress the nervous systems and cause a variety of associated problems
• Can affect the reproductive systems and has been linked to birth defects
• Even in small doses, can produce some pretty bad headaches

Chlorinated phenols, Hydrochloric Acid or Sodium hydroxide

Found in Toilet Bowl Cleaners

• Produces skin, eye and respiratory irritation
• Never mix an item containing Chlorinated phenols with Sodium Hydroxide

Chlorine, sodium hypochlorite or hypochlorite

Found in Dish Soaps and Laundry Detergents

• Highly poisonous to children and my depress the nervous systems
• Should not be mixed with vinegar and can be lethal if combined with Ammonia

Formaldehyde or Phenol

Found in Air Fresheners, Air Deodorizes and Room Disinfectants

• Respiratory irritant and suspected carcinogen
• Causes hives, convulsions, circulatory collapse or comas

Hydrochloric acid, Lye or Trichloroethane

Found in Drain Cleaners

• Lye is caustic, burns skin and eyes and if ingested will damage the esophagus
• Trichloroethane is a nervous system depressant and causes skin and eye irritation
• Both are know to cause kidney, liver and digestive tract irritations

Sodium Hydroxide (Lye)

Found in Oven Cleaners

• Produces skin, eye and respiratory irritation
• Also removes lipids from hands (which can cause wrinkles)