What is a Non Toxic All Purpose Cleaner?
“Non-Toxic All-Purpose Cleaner” is quite a mouthful. What it means isn’t too hard to guess – or maybe it is. Soap and detergent have been the universal “all purpose cleaners” since they were invented. They are used to clean our bodies, scrub our utensils, rinse our clothes and even mop the floors – where applicable. What is so special about that? As for “non-toxic”, we somehow assume that the products we use in daily life are “safe”. We don’t expect to be slow poisoned by our food, our cosmetics or our household cleaners. Sadly, the reality is very different. Most cleaners are surfactant-based, and they contain either soap or detergent. While soap is organic in origin and mostly safe, it foams less and refuses to lather at all in hard water, making it an inconvenient universal standard. Detergent, on the other hand, is laboratory manufactured, and designed to be cheap and versatile. In the process, certain compounds are introduced which are less than friendly to the body. Any store-bou
