Clean Home Challenge | Day 1
This month, we are using Thieves to clean every day! All you need is a bottle of Thieves cleaner and a bottle of Thieves Dish soap. Grab yours here and join in any time! You can search ‘clean home challenge’ in the search bar to pull up all of the tasks!
Day 1 | Let’s clean the refrigerator!
Grab your Thieves Cleaner spray and head to the kitchen!!!
Set a time for 15 minutes and clean your refrigerator
Look at expiration dates, throw away things, wipe down shelves and drawers with your Thieves Cleaner!
Don't forget to spray and wipe down outer fridge doors too!
To keep a fresh scent add 10-20 drops of Lime to a box of baking soda and keep in the back of your fridge.
Bonus- use bins to organize similar foods or small easy to lose food.
Green Washing
Creating a truly clean home isn’t quite as simple as grabbing ‘natural’ products from the store when you’re grocery shopping. (Sadly the popular green cleaners are anything but green.) BUT it can be as easy as an online cart with a few essential oil-infused options!
Have you heard the term ‘greenwashing'? It is when companies throw catch phrases or use certain packaging to trick consumers into thinking they are purchasing a natural product, when in reality, what they are buying isn't natural at all. Unfortunately the majority of the ‘natural' cleaning brands out there do this, which is a huge reason we love the Thieves Home products! No phthalates, parabens, bleach, formaldehyde, or toxic chemicals in these products - just the power of plants!
A little sobering reminder that just because we assume it's safe, tested, and on our shelves for purchase, doesn't make it so-
The TSCA of 1976 (The Toxic Substances Control Act) grandfathered in approx. 65-100k chemicals currently on the market today (i.e. they haven’t had any safety testing & we know little about them).
Of the chemicals tested, toxic labeling is required only if 50% or more of the animals tested with the chemical die.
Under the TSCA, manufacturers are protected by trade secret laws that allow them to keep their ingredient list a secret. Sometimes that’s just to keep their competitors from knowing their formulas and isn’t hiding anything, but you’ll never know unless you can trust the way a company operates.
To date of this writing, the EU (European Union) has banned 1,300 chemicals in cosmetics; the FDA in America has banned only 11!!!
This right here is why we're taking it upon ourselves to become educated consumers!
WE must read labels.
WE must understand what is going on and in our bodies.
WE must protect our future and present children.
WE must take the responsibility on ourselves to understand. And that's exactly what we're doing this month!
Even Young Living is constantly having to learn and grow as we discover new effects of products and combinations. You will see reformulations and changes as they constantly shift as our knowledge as a society grows. This is the mark of a company with your best interests at heart. No one will ever have all the answers, but we can always keep learning together!
Let’s see those clean refrigerators!
