"Green" Cleaning is better for you, your kids, your pets, and the environment. Using green products can drastically reduce your exposure to other common household products containing toxic chemicals that can have seriously adverse health effects.

These toxic chemicals can cause cancer, irritate the lungs, interfere with the functioning of the liver and other organs, irritate the skin, or affect the reproductive system. According to Inform, Inc., in their "Strategies for a Better Environment," studies indicate that most Americans have common household cleaning chemicals in their blood and urine.

Children & Cleaning Products

"Many common cleaning products can increase your risk of asthma, and they can cause people with asthma to have an attack. Asthma is the number one cause of school absenteeism."

"Children are especially susceptible to the potential harm presented by cleaning chemicals. Pound for pound, children breathe more air, drink more water, and eat more food than adults. A child's developing body is less capable of metabolizing and excreting these toxins — which increases the risks to their central nervous system, reproductive organs, immune system, and lungs." Strategies for a Better Environment, Inform, Inc. May 2005.

The Green Man offers a full line of professional grade cleaning products which are safe for you, your kids, your pets, and the environment.

The Green Man has done extensive research to choose products which "do no harm" while being as, or even more effective than most of the chemical alternatives in the commercial marketplace.

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