What are some harmful materials? House/home based

1. Plastic
2. Chemicals in cleaning products
3. Toxic paints


What else?

 

Air freshener is dangerous (maybe lethal) if you inhale it. Some metals are bad to put against your skin for long peroids of time. The isolation (the pink stuff) can be irritating if you touch it.

Eating nail polish can give you cancer, but that might go under toxic paints. The chemicals in some drugs are bad (like getting atheletes foot cream in your eye). I bet hair spary can be harmful.

 

There's a lot of debate as to weither aspertame is going to be discovered as being a carsinogen (sp?) or not. And let's not get started about all the chemicals and evil in cigarettes.

Bleach is exceptionally dangerous when consumed straight, but when diluted, well... it's in your drinking water if you live in the city.

 

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1171342004


According to the above article, it is impossible for an individual to avoid all harmful materials, chemicals, and substances. The individual can only do so much in a world contaminated by corporate industrial waste.

 

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aluminum can cause alzthimers
like soda cans, deoderant, some cookwear.

 

Things like these are examples of bad science and science for profit.

 

Taking a shower with chlorinated municipal water can lead to more chlorine exposure than most folks suspect. The spraying water liberates the chlorine very efficiently and in the inclosed shower stall we breath it in.

Most swimming pool chemicals are very toxic (shock, algecides etc), drain cleaners, just a lot of things.

 

Natural gas, microwaves, chlorinated water, flouride (allegedly), preservatives, rat poison, lead paint and pipes, asbestos, teflon (allegedly), tannin (some debate), sweetners, caffeine (again some debate), alcohol, detergents, dyes, food colourings (some food colourings and flavourings are seen as poisonous and illegal in the UK but not in the US and vice-versa), the list goes on but i'm having a brain freeze.

Incidentally there are many many ways of creating small scale explosives from even "safe" household chemicals and products.

 

Well things like cleaners and detergents are going to be harmful otherwise they wouldnt be particularly effective cleaners. Im not sure that its bad science.

 

Dust. Carpets are a bad source as it is always difficult to completly remove it. Hard floors are becoming more popular for this reason.

 

Certain kinds of mold, the airborne spores of which can be quite harmful (not to mention be a problem if ya want to sell the place).

 

Is there a point to this thread? I though it was pretty much common sense that these things were dangerous.

 

Threads don't have points, thats sewing needles.

 

the stuff that comes in an aerosol can, and you spray it on wasps, bees, spiders, moths, ants and whatever else and it makes them die.

 

http://www.dorway.com/

most of the MILK is harmful too.

buy organic. or don't drink milk right now at all.


http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/bgh.shtml

 

ANYTHING can be harmful or fatal if consumed in sufficient quantity.

That said, probably the most hazardous substance found around the average home would be the gasoline in the tank of your car or lawnmower. Acutely toxic (a couple tablespoons ingested will kill you), carcinogenic (contains benzene), and explosively flammable (a gallon of the stuff contains the equivalent energy of several sticks of dynamite).

Of course, there is always the lethal dihydrogen monoxide:

http://www.dhmo.org

 

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i once knew a guy that drank 8 glasses a day of this crazy stuff and he turned out fine.

 

If your friend drank Dihydrogen Monoxide I hope he mixed it with either vodka or whiskey, it is the only way it can safely be consumed without causing grief to the participant. Once one becomes dependent on it - DHMO can become the only way that these poor soles get their pleasure
END DHMO consumption now - use wine - vodka whiskey anything else that brings pleasure but DHMO is a foolish waste of time