Indoor Air Quality issues in your home

Feb 16, 2013

Do you have you have your clothes dry cleaned? What about the carpet in your home? What chemicals are used in those processes? Where do those chemicals go after the cleaning? The air inside a home can be as much as 5 x’s as toxic as the air outside. Is your home making you sick because of the chemicals you are bringing in? Off-gassing of chemicals (fire retardants, cleaning agents, even candles) is detrimental to your health. Be sure to find companies that use non-toxic materials to do things around your home like cleaning carpets.

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