Monday 24 October 2011

How to clean "green" - Formaldehyde

When cleaning green it is very important to know what your chemicals should not contain. Formaldehyde is one of those chemicals that your green cleaning products should never contain.

Formaldehyde is particularly nasty as it is a known carcinogenic. This means that it is can cause cancer. For me, that would be enough reason to stay well away from it.

This chemical substance would typically be used as a preservative or disinfecting agent in cleaning chemicals. Do you remember biology class with all those jars stuffed with weird things floating in liquid. That liquid was formaldehyde. It is excellent at preserving dead organic tissue but unfortunately it is good at killing living things too, it seems. This is definitely not an environmentally friendly substance.

For more information on green cleaning chemicals, please visit http://www.blendwell.co.za/

Blendwell Chemicals is a manufacturer of cleaning products. Amongst of ranges of cleaning chemicals is the Enviro Blend range. We also manufacture Delphis Eco cleaning products under licence to the UK.

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