Share your Norwex Experiences!

Hello all Norwex Lovers,

I would like to hear about your experiences with your Norwex Products.

Share a story or product review about your favorite Norwex Cleaning Product or Organic Personal Care Product.

It seems that the more people I meet who use Norwex, the more interesting testamonials there are about Norwex Products!

Spring cleaning is upon us and I know Norwex lovers would all love to hear new and intersting things that their Norwex products have done for them. So here is the time to share those stories!

Anyone who enters their Norwex story or comment on my blog before May 31 2010, is enetering to win a Antibac Mini Starter Pack! (1 Large Antibac Enviro Cloth, 1 Small Antibac Enviro Cloth and 1 Window Cloth). Winner will be contacted.


Good Luck and Hope to hear from you soon!

Jennifer

Product Review - Norwex Oven and Grill Cleaner

Another Product I would love to share this review on is about Norwex Oven and Grill Cleaner.
I used to use Easy Off oven cleaner to clean my oven and when I did, I used to have to plan a whole day out of the house for my family. How awful to plan my day out not because of nice weather but because of cleaning my oven and not wanting to breath in toxic fumes.

I did some reading on what was actually in other oven cleaners and found out that standard oven cleaners contain lye and petroleum distillates and come in aerosol containers. None of this is good for your health…and certainly not good for the environment. Standard oven cleaners carry a health rating of 3, which means they cause serious health effects and they are known to cause burns to skin, eyes, mouth, throat, and even stomach – on contact! Overspray has also resulted in permanent damage to flooring and countertops.

So the next time I cleaned my oven, I used Norwex Oven and Grill Cleaner. I couldnt believe my eyes when I was finished with it! It cleaned the oven in one go and I didnt have to use any toxic chemicals to do it. it was so easy. All I had to do was
heat the oven to 100 F, apply, wait for 5 minutes, and wipe with an Envirocloth. Really tough spots may require a second treatment and/or scrubbing with a Spirisponge. Use of gloves is recommended though as this cleaner is amazingly effective, and prolonged contact could result in some skin irritation.

Norwex Oven and Grill Cleaner carries a health rating of 1! The primary active ingredients are enzymes and bacteria which do an amazing job of naturally breaking down baked-on fats, oils, greases, proteins, and carbohydrates.

After cleaning with Norwex Oven and Grill Cleaner

Norwex Drain Care Product Review

One of my biggest concerns with chemical cleaning is has how to clear a clogged drain without dumping an entire bottle of Draino down the problem drain. The few times I have used Draino I had to leave the room, close the door and keep my kids and everyone else out of the room. I was coughing and wheezing after that experience. After that caustic chemical experience I decided to try to find a more enviromentally and human friendly alternative to cleaning drains.

The sink in my bathrrom always drains pretty slow, and even smells a bit funny when I run water down it and I am just waiting for the day for it to clog up on me and I amnot going to bring out Draino again. So this time, as even a prevenative measure I brought out the Norwex Drain Care and gave it a try. It is as easy and pouring one scoop of enzyme powder into the drain and washing it down with 1/4 cup of warm water. Once the water was added the enzyme powder fizzed up dramatically and them slowly receded down the drain. As recommended I did this at night for best results. When I used the sink in the morning I was pleased to see water ran down very smoothly and the smell was gone out of my drain!

So I recommended Norwex Drain Care to a friend with a clogged drain and she had the same results but it completely cleared her clogged drain!

This product is fantastic and I would highly reccommend it to anyone who has drain clogging problems or even just wants to use a chemical free prevenative maintenence for drain care with no smell and no caustic chemicals. I will never have to use Draino or liquid plummer again to remove clogs in any drain!

SWAB Test For Chicken Residue

This is just amazing! A fellow Norwex consultant contacted me about these swabs she has been using at parties to show how effective the microfiber cloths are against bacteris. She writes to me:

"I have personally been using these swabs for the past 11 months. I have demonstrated them at more than 45 of my own shows.
I have tested many different types of meat against the Norwex enviro cloth and have NEVER had a test fail. "

I find our new customers have a hard time believing you can remove chicken reside using only water, this test demonstrates conclusively that it does!

Thanks,

Carole Kuypers

Click below to see the you tube of the SWAB TEST:

SWAB TEST YouTube Video

People seem to ask me why does Norwex clean better than bleach. I know for alot of people it is hard to wrap their head around using microfiber and water and taking bleach right out of their cleaning regime.

So here is an ACTUAL answer from a tech advisor from Norwex. If you have any technical questions about NOrwex products, feel free to email me at naturally.norwex@gmail.com and I will send them in. They get so many questions and always have good solid answers!



Why Norwex cleans better than bleach

By Candi Bezte, Norwex Science and technical Advisor

Chlorine levels in a common swimming pool range from about 0.5 to 1 ppm. These levels were shown to affect lung capacity in athletes with no history of lung ailment, who were exercising within or near the pool. The incidence of respiratory trouble ws just under 20% at .05ppm but was over 60% at 1 ppm.

Chlorine concentrations recommended for cleaning/disinfecting daycares are between 500-1000 ppm(approximately 1000 times higher than swimming pool water).

Bleach is so highly reactive, that it pretty much instantly reacts with substances that it comes in contact with. That is why it is so effective at killing absolutely everything! When it is combined with organic matter it forms organ chlorine substances, many of which can be carcinogenic.

Recent study (Odabasi 2008) on products that contain bleach together with other ingredients has revealed that bleach can react with soaps, fragrances or other ingredients within the bottle to produce some very high toxic substances. These may include relatively high levels of tetrachloride and chloroform.

The FDA has banned carbon tetrachloride in all residential products as they find it to be so hazardous that no warning label could adequately protect the householder. Carbon tetrachloride is also a probable human carcinogen and ozone depleting substance and a powerful greenhouse gas.

Moral of the story....bleach should be avoided whenever possible and should NEVER be mixed with any other products other than water!

I love the Norwex Enviro Cloth for all my cleaning and use only water and have never turned back :)

Reasons NOT to use Fabric Softener

A Taylor & Francis Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10937404.asp) Anderson laboratory study revealed that 5 common fabric softeners had airborne emissions of 6 toxic chemicals that are commonly associated with acute respiratory irritations and inflammation. Fabric softeners are made to stay in cloth fabric for slow release over a long period of time. This slow release into the air affects those wearing the clothes and people around them. The softeners leave an oil coating on clothes; the oil builds up on fibers and reduces the absorbent properties of the fabric (repels water). The oils leave a sticky residue on dryer components like heat sensors that result in burn out of the sensor and reduced heat production. The sticky residue also collects on the drum and moisture sensors. The residue oils that are transferred from the fabric softeners and dryer sheets to fabrics are flammable and take away the retardant properties of baby cloths. The Toxic Dangers of Fabric Softeners and Dryer Sheets

Although they may make your clothes feel soft and smell fresh, fabric softeners and dryer sheets are some of the most toxic products around. Chances are that the staggering 99.8% of Americans who use common commercial detergents, fabric softeners, bleaches, and stain removers would think twice if they knew they contained chemicals that could cause cancer and brain damage.

Here is a list of just some of the chemicals found in fabric softeners and dryer sheets:

Benzyl acetate: Linked to pancreatic cancer

Benzyl Alcohol: Upper respiratory tract irritant

Ethanol: On the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Hazardous Waste list and can cause central nervous system disorders

Limonene: Known carcinogen

A-Terpineol: Can cause respiratory problems, including fatal edema, and central nervous system damage

Ethyl Acetate: A narcotic on the EPA's Hazardous Waste list

Camphor: Causes central nervous system disorders

Chloroform: A neurotoxin, anesthetic and carcinogen

Linalool: A narcotic that causes central nervous system disorders

Pentane: A chemical known to be harmful if inhaled

So how could products with pretty names like Soft Ocean Mist, Summer Orchard and April Fresh be so dangerous?

The chemicals in fabric softeners are pungent and strong smelling -- so strong that they require the use of these heavy fragrances (think 50 times as much fragrance) just to cover up the smells. Furthermore, synthetic fabrics, which are the reason fabric softeners were created in the first place, do not smell good either when heated in a dryer or heated by our bodies ... hence the need for even more hefty fragrances.

In other words, remove all the added fragrance that endears people to fabric softeners and -- like the cliché wolf in sheep's clothing -- the real smells of the chemical-laced fabric softener and the synthetic fabrics they were designed around may prompt people to shoot their laundry machines and be done with it.

Are "Soft" Clothes Worth It?

Fabric softeners are made to stay in your clothing for long periods of time. As such, chemicals are slowly released either into the air for you to inhale or onto your skin for you to absorb. Dryer sheets are particularly noxious because they are heated in the dryer and the chemicals are released through dryer vents and out into the environment. Health effects from being exposed to the chemicals in fabric softeners include:

Central nervous system disorders
Headaches
Nausea
Vomiting
Dizziness
Blood pressure reduction
Irritation to skin, mucus membranes and respiratory tract
Pancreatic cancer


Don't wrap your family in chemical-coated fabric-softened towels! S Use Norwex Laundry Detergent and the Magnet Ball to eliminate static S Use Norwex Dryer Balls to fluff laundry, decrease drying times and further reduce static

Welcome to My New Blog!! I thought I would start a blog this spring and here is a great article I found as a tribute to a clean home and spring time!

A Breath of Fresh Air

15 Houseplants for Improving Indoor Air Quality | MNN - Mother Nature Network

I came accross this article and found it very interesting especially with spring coming and my indoor and outdoor gardening urge is at full force! I am happy to clean my house without chemicals with Norwex products but what about my overall air quality? This article on the Mother Nature Network showed me that there ar 15 houseplants that help purify the air in my home!

In the late '80s, NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America studied houseplants as a way to purify the air in space facilities. They found several plants that filter out common volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Lucky for us the plants can also help clean indoor air on Earth, which is typically far more polluted than outdoor air. Other studies have since been published in the Journal of American Society of Horticultural Science further proving the science. (Text: Julie Knapp)

Click here to read more about which plants will clean your air in your home! You can Clean your surfaces with Norwex products and clean the air in your home with certain plants! Click here to read more about which ones are rated the best on the Mother Nature Network!