Why use earth friendly cleaning products?

For your family:
Just how safe are the cleaning products we take for granted and use everyday? Do you find yourself coughing, itching, feeling dizzy or suffering headaches after cleaning? Chemicals from cleaning products are absorbed into your body from contact with your skin or inhaling the vapours. This can irritate problems such as allergies, dermatitis and asthma. New research is also showing that these chemicals may pose a cancer risk, as well as interfere with out reproductive systems.
Toxicologist Dr Peter Dingle has written an article on the hazards in everyday cleaning products - The Cost of Clean.

Earth friendly products also leave your home smelling fresher, as they don't have that distinct chemical smell, which is a lot more pleasant for everyone living there!


For the earth:
Most everyday cleaning products contain ingredients that are harmful to our environment, including chlorines and sulfates. These ingredients enter our waterways and break down into substances which are harmful to us, our oceans and our wildlife.

The products used by Coble Cleaning to clean your home are made with high quality biodegradable materials. Biodegradable, simply put, means "degraded by natural bacteria". Biodegradation is nature's mechanism for self-preservation.

When it comes to detergents, the Australian Standards AS1792 states that 80% must break down within 21 days. The products we purchase for our cleaning are formulated and designed in Germany, which compiles with the O.E.C.D. screening test 301E (1981) and is even more stringent (90% must break down within 21 days). Because highly biodegradable detergent and raw materials are more costly, the majority of companies are not using them.

The environmentally friendly cleaning products that we use reduces your carbon footprint on the earth. Have you ever wondered what size your carbon footprint really is? You can calculate an estimate, and find out more about carbon footprints at The Powerhouse Museum website.

Using biodegradable, non-toxic cleaning products is a small, easy step to take towards reducing the impact of your carbon footprint on the earth. Employing Coble Cleaning to clean your home reduces your footprint even further, as we provide our own products. We purchase all of our products in bulk, bringing them to your home in smaller containers that we reuse and recycle. This means less packaging being made, purchased and thrown away in all of the homes we service.