For A green & Healthy Life

To live a green and healthy life, there are many changes we can all make in various areas of our life. One simple change you can make, is the choice of laundry soap over detergent powder/soap you use to wash your clothes. Most people would like to rid their homes of pollutants. But, how often do you think about these toxins thriving in the laundry room?

In looking at the packs of laundry detergent that are sold in stores, we usually encounter ingredients that mean nothing to us, or find that a detergent has no ingredients listed at all. It seems odd in this day and age that any type of product could be sold without having an ingredients list, but that is exactly what happens with commercial brand laundry detergents in some cases.

When you do see a list, you'll probably notice surfactants as a common ingredient found in most laundry detergents.¹ This ingredient is a wetting agent that helps water to penetrate the fabric of your clothing. You should know that "surfactants" is not a particular ingredient name. It is simply listed in reference to a number of different chemicals that might be used. When surfactants are used, they release benzene into the environment. Benzene is a toxin that is believed to be responsible for causing cancer and reproductive disorders.

Many of the chemicals that are used in commercially branded laundry detergents have no real purpose in keeping our clothes clean. They are merely added so that our clothes will appear whiter or brighter to our eyes. Over time, exposure to these chemicals can cause allergies to laundry detergents.

What are we, the consumers of household cleaning products, supposed to do? The answer is simple. We can start purchasing vegetable oil based laundry soaps like Manjadi & Velvia.

Manjadi & Velvia does not contain chlorine, phosphates, or other chemicals that are dangerous to our health. In fact, phosphates are a known water pollutant, and have caused considerable damage within our environment over the past 40 years. The use of phosphates has been hotly debated in recent years, as they are known to kill fish and plants, which throws our entire ecological system out of balance.

The toxic chemicals found in laundry detergents present a danger to the environment by way of the water. But guess what? They can also damage your skin and some give off fumes that you inhale when you breathe in the just dry clothes with their synthetic fragrances.

While any effort to help our environment is certainly worthwhile, our best alternative is to use an handmade laundry soap like Manjadi & Velvia for all of our clothing. These laundry soaps are gentler, healthier, and safer for us to use.