These days you can walk into almost any supermarket or retail store and find countless products claiming to be environmentally friendly. Green bottles, labels sporting lush forests and crystal clear lakes, along with many other “green friendly” icons and terms, are used to make a product more appealing to eco-conscious shoppers. But what does being “green” really mean? And how do you, the consumer, know if the product you’re choosing is really good for both the environment and your family?
Under a constant deluge of new products, shoppers grow increasingly reliant on labels to determine whether or not they want to buy one brand over another. And to the newly initiated, those labels can be extremely misleading. A brand may proudly proclaim itself eco-friendly by using recyclable material to package its goods. However, when you look beyond the pretty wrappings, you find the product within that recyclable bottle contains ammonia, which is poisonous if swallowed, and irritates the respiratory system when inhaled. How can something that is so unfriendly to your own body be considered friendly to the environment? The answer is that it can’t, because it’s a chemical killer—a compound that kills organisms to attain cleanliness. These types of cleaners have their place, but not in everyday, environmentally friendly cleaning processes.
So, with all the confusion about “green cleaners,” how do you find your way to a cleaner, greener personal environment? The answer is knowledge. The concept and culture of “green” living is broad, but what it largely comes down to is health. Will this product improve my family’s overall quality of life, or will it make us sick in the long run? Is the company that creates it really interested in bettering lives, or are they just jumping on a bandwagon to turn a quick profit? Learn what ingredients are harmful to you and the environment, and research the companies that create the products you’re interested in. Making informed decisions takes time and effort, but when the payoff is a healthier world for everyone, the burden isn’t really so big.
At Generations Go Green, all of our products help to reduce risk to people and the environment by preventing pollution. These cleansers use best-in-class components from the CleanGredients© database to markedly improve their environmental and human health profiles.
