What Cleaning Products To Avoid During Pregnancy

A clean house is a healthy house. However, is a house cleaned top to bottom with toxic chemicals really that clean? See your reflection in the mirror without smearing toxic chemicals all over it. Cleanse the home and body by avoiding these cleaning chemicals while pregnant!

 

Sparkle And Shine Without These Ingredients

Cleaning supplies protect your home from viruses, bacteria, and mold. Now, it's time to protect your house from toxic home cleaning supplies! Make sure you’re staying squeaky clean with pregnancy safe cleaning supplies!

Wipe away these cleaning chemicals to avoid during pregnancy:

  • Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) and Methylchloroisothiazolinone - Banned in Europe, may Interfere with communication patterns in unborn babies [1]. 

  • Glycol Ethers - May Impact prenatal motor skills [2]. 

  • Cocamidopropyl betaine - Impurities during processing may cause skin irritations.

  • Fragrance/Parfum - Could be up to 3,000 chemicals, including estrogen-mimicking phthalates [3].

  • Non-Vegetable Glycerin - Can be petroleum-based, which can be contaminated with PAHs linked to cancerous growths [4]. 

Pack Away Toxic Packaging 

Chemicals in cleaning supplies help disinfect our living spaces. They can also become infected by the chemicals in their packaging.

Plastic chemicals can leach in water and other liquids in your cleaning supplies. As you wipe away germs on surfaces, you could be wiping chemicals that disrupt hormones into your skin. 

Sanitize your cleaning regimen by scrubbing chemicals in plastic containers from your Target run. Cut grease and your carbon footprint by opting for cleaning supplies in plastic-free storage containers

Learn which products in your cleaning supplies contain toxic chemicals, like BPA, phthalates, and parabens. Participate in Million Marker's Detect & Detox Test Kit + Toxic-Free Lifestyle Audit and ensure that you’re using only pregnancy safe products.  

Balance your hormones, germs, and chemical exposures with this mail-in urine test. 

Increase your chances of a successful pregnancy with unique health insights derived from your own data. Then, renovate your housekeeping with customized natural product recommendations! 

Spic, Span, and Safe Cleaning Products 

Bring your baby home to a clean environment, free of toxic chemicals. Polish your home with Million Marker's Approved Home Cleaning Supplies

Freshen things up by:

Natural is the new clean. Show toxic chemicals the door. Roll the welcome mat out at your home for natural cleaning supplies! 

 

Sources:

[1] https://www.safecosmetics.org/get-the-facts/chemicals-of-concern/methylisothiazolinone/ 
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019301825 
[3] https://www.ewg.org/sites/humantoxome/chemicals/chemical.php?chemid=100364 
[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169115300034