Revelation 1:
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Nothing to do with the post, I just like the picture of American Goldfinches.
Well if it isn’t one thing, it’s another. In a public restroom I visit now and again (coffee shop), I noticed they changed their anti-bacterial soap to a new something. It was a Lysol brand touch-free soap dispenser. I went ahead an used it, but intended to do a little more research after learning what I did about triclosan.
After loading up on gas and coffee, we went birding. Enjoyed the time immensely and I look forward to sharing a few photos later. We gained a year bird and possibly a new sub-species we will put on our life list. Waiting for confirmation.
Then, we went to Target and looking at their soaps, I noticed the same thing the coffee shop had. This time I had pen and paper to write down the chemical name…
“The substance is toxic to aquatic organisms. It is strongly advised not to let the chemical enter into the environment.”
And it is put into soaps for the unsuspecting public to use! Here is a list of pesticidal uses.
Scorecard- the Pollution information site
Anything affecting the lowest on the food chain, will in turn, effect those higher up. Does this bother you? It does me and will stick to just standard soaps and water.
But some may ask, what to do during this flu season? Especially in public places. I thought about this. I am not about to suggest to anyone to not wash your hands. Up to this point, we’ve been using hand sanitizer and I send Papa off to work with some, but I wonder what environmental and health risks that contains. I haven’t looked yet.
I came up with an idea. Fill a small, empty squeeze bottle with liquid, non anti-bacterial soap and keep this in your pocket or purse. Often there are small travel size containers in the stores, or just reuse (after you wash it out well) a small bottle you may already have on hand. Sure, it’s a little ore work, but it is a much better option than not washing, or putting chemicals into our environment and water supply.
Talking about pen and paper, I want to share a little birding tip with you.
Use a pencil.
Graphite doesn’t freeze like ink when you want to write your birding notes and numbers in the freezing weather. Yup, learned this from experience.
We are fast becoming a bacterial-phobic civilization. What is wrong with plain soap…Did our ancestors not survive with it? Another thing some are ‘phobic’ about are dust mites. I know they exist but I never ever had any problem with these growing up or when we raised our family.. and yet there are some I know that are so careful that they change their pillows every 3 months… Like I said I know some have problems with this but I don’t feel the average family with average care in clean sheets and linen would have a problem…That’s just me….!! Diane
This isn’t really a new thing. People have long wanted to avoid death, thus eternity, if they are not in a right relationship with the Lord.
It seems people, as you have mentioned, in their phobias can become wasteful. Ugh! Do we really need all those perfectly good pillows put in the landfills? Poor stewardship of what we have. My husband’s mother is allergic to dust mites (She was tested). She keeps a clean house, but I’ve never known her to waste like that. Maybe recommend Greenbug for People. We use it for ticks; it’s amazing!
Thanks for the information. I emailed them to see if they have retailers in Canada that carry their product although they do ship to Canada ..but I notice it is expensive…Mind you if you get the concentrate it will likely last quite some time.
I would like to get some for mosquitoes as they really invade at night outside ….Diane
I thought I left a reply for you, but it isn’t here. Did you hear back from them? When I first learned if this site, I had a bit of “sticker shock”, but felt it was worth it to avoid using DEET. With our birding, we could use a lot of it. Just walking alongside the tall grasses of our pasture was enough to get a couple ticks. I am amazed at the other things it takes care of too. It does have a strong cedar smell. I like it, but I know others might not. I need to order a new supply for the summer and want to try the stuff for the garden.
I haven’t ordered any yet…I haven’t heard back if they have any retailers in Canada yet either… but I will check back with them….thanks for the link up…Diane
I think our increased sensitivity to the environment is related to all the odd things we have done to our food and water and whatever. The apparent increasing problem with gluten intolerance, autism, ADHD, etc, etc.–you name it–is not just because of better diagnoses and study. It is the cause and effect of tampering with the natural environment.
There is enough that can go wrong just because of the fall and nature’s groaning for redemption without splicing fish DNA to tomatoes or making corn house its own pesticide. Argh. But you just do the best you can and look up. Our hope is in Christ, not in this world or even in our ability to change it and redeem it ourselves. But I am still eating organic.
By the way, a spray bottle with 1/2 water and 1/2 alcohol (or 1/2 water and 1/2 hydrogen peroxide) is an antibacterial. Soap and water washing for the time it takes to sing the ABC song is really all you need, but in public places where there is a germ parade, some extra protection is not bad. The rush to make everything anti-bacterial is crazy, though–even anti-bacterial Q-tips and toothbrushes! Here come the superbugs! Lord, come quickly.
I edited your little boo-boos.
I’ve wondered about that, with all the things that are being messed with. Like PB, when I grew up that was never a problem. We grew up on Jif.
That is a good idea about the water and alcohol/peroxide. So the rubbing alcohol is safe for the environment?
We no longer use Neosporin, but an ointment called B&W (Burned and Wounded). It contains honey, organic olive oil and other organic ingredients. Right after I cut myself, I put that on and a burdock leaf, wrapped it in gauze. I need to get more burdock leaf from my friend. It has to be dried at just the right time and in the right way, or you lose the good stuff.
That’s good advice.
Neosporin can cause spontaneous allergy (rash) attacks. I saw that in my dermatologist’s office. Crazy! Because it is still out there and in most First Aid kits.
I know… we were given a first aid kit. Sure can use all those Band-aids, but it also had the Neosporin. I never know what to do with that kind of stuff. I don’t want to to put it in the trash to end up in the landfill.
We have a disposal bin for old medicines in front of our sherrif’s station. I think they take them and incinerate them.
I’ll have to look into something like that. I know the pharmacy takes expired meds.
My pharmacy used to, and that’s what I would do. But then they changed to the Sherrif’s. Funny, though, the bin is right beside the one labeled Illegal Drug Drop Off.
I still have some around. I keep them just because in an emergency, like an earthquake, they might be needed–sometimes better than nothing. But I refuse to buy it anymore.
Alcohol and peroxide have been around for years and years. I think alcohol is wood based if I remember correctly.
I thought it was ok, but I just wasn’t sure.
using pencils also is a great thing if your paper gets wet – it doesn’t wash off like ink.
Great Idea~! I like to carry stuff with me too, just in case.
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I definitely agree that anti-bacterial soap is not s healthy thing to use by any standard. I like your idea of carrying your own soap. It’s too bad that more companies don’t try the natural approach instead of chemical. Good tip about the pencil, too.
This is nuts… I am just trying to tack a comment onto the bottom of the post, not reply to anyone specifically. Sorry, if you keep getting notifications. This is my last try. If it attaches, I won’t send another.
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What is kind of bad is the stuff we already have in the house, before using more natural products. If you throw it in the trash, it still gets into the environment. I don’t want to pass it on to others for their use, again it gets into the environment. We learned places that take hazardous chemicals will not take household cleaning products- they say dump it down the drain.