Inspired by lung cancer awareness month, let’s choose one detox tweak that unburdens our lungs.
This week: edit your spray products. Search your home while responding to the question: How many spray products in my home are unused?
Then discard those responsibly, and note how many you eliminated from your home. Feel proud because they are potential sources of toxic fumes—even if they are unused! Let me know how it goes @ruanliving on Instagram or Facebook.
Spray products often contain risky chemicals that can off-gas even if unused. Used, chemical ingredients can be inhaled easily as they are suspended in the air, or settle onto surfaces to be inhaled or absorbed later as dust. Once in our bodies, their journeys and impact are a risky mystery. So, before buying spray products:
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As you learn more, just keeping asking yourself, Do I love or need it? This is the "Love Test." Discard responsibly what fails the Love Test.
Home Detox Workbook: Checklists to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals (Amazon paid link) contains more tips on how to manage the risks from what survives the Love Test.
Use the "Love Test" to detox what you buy, own, and do. This sets you up for a sustainable practical nontoxic lifestyle because it is a balanced approach that protects your joy and convenience.
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Check out my recent Instagram Live with Practical Nontoxic Living podcast guest, Reina Honts, lung cancer survivor and Lung Cancer Research Foundation Board Member. We talk about the spray products in our homes that survived the Love Test.
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In 2020, we're deconstructing our home, habits, and things to reconstruct a practical nontoxic and healing lifestyle. We're bringing consciousness to unconscious choices.
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