Big Cleaning

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden, Kids & Family

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Scientists have found unsettling details about the potential health risks of common household cleaning products. And yet Big Cleaning capitalizes on fear of germs, bacteria, and disease to sell us home cleansers with traditional chemical compounds on the regular. It behooves us to ask ourselves whether the ways things have always been done align with our own values. On today's show Zac Kieffer argues it's high-time we redefine what it means to clean. Here's a preview: [3:00] Three reasons why it's important to perpetually question the way we clean and disinfect [8:00] Are you disinfecting correctly? (Answer: Probably not.) [16:00] Ammonia! 2-Butoxyethanol! BACs! Here's what cleaning companies don't want you to know about the (very powerful) chemical compounds in traditional cleansers [21:00] Big Cleaning and fear-based marketing [28:00] Does microfiber = microplastics? Resources mentioned: Episode #417: How To Buy Soap E-Cloth (Minimalists15 for 15% off site-wide) Cleaning Products Emit Hundreds of Hazardous Chemicals, New Study Finds (via EWG) This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! [email protected].

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0:00.0	It has been a summer of self-care over here. I'm talking lots of hikes, lots of beach trips with the
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1:00.8	Well, hello there and welcome back.
1:04.9	My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 487 of sustainable
1:10.9	minimalists.
1:12.4	This is a listener supported show about intentional and
1:14.8	eco-friendly minimalist living and on today's show we are discussing the problems
1:20.0	associated with big cleaning. So those mega corporations, they sell us these
1:26.6	products, they use fear to get us to buy and to disinfect everything. But what are they not telling us? What are the
1:35.2	potential problems associated with using and relying on these very powerful
1:40.0	cleansers on the regular? So that's what we're doing today. Here to help me do that is
1:45.9	Zach Kiefer. Zach is the president of E-cloth and if you've been paying attention for the
1:50.9	last month, E-cloth is a sponsor of this show.
1:54.6	Zax on the show to break down for us what we very likely don't know about big
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