What is a Natural Cleaner or Natural home care product ?
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What is exactly a Natural Cleaner or Natural home care product ? There had been no standards setup in the home cleaning products area but now the Natural Products Association (NPA) is now extending its natural seal and standard to include home care products, such as household cleaners, laundry detergents, concentrated and ready-to-use hard surface cleaners.
To receive the new Nature Seal of Approval, the product must meet these criteria:
- Product must be made up of at least 95 percent truly natural ingredients or ingredients that are derived from natural sources, excluding water
- No ingredients with any suspected human health risks
- No processes that significantly or adversely alter the natural ingredients
- Ingredients that come from a purposeful, natural source (flora, fauna, mineral)
- Processes that are minimal and don’t use synthetic/harsh chemicals
- Non-natural ingredients only when viable natural alternative ingredients are unavailable and only when there are absolutely no suspected potential human health risks
- Transparency and full disclosure of ingredients
In May 2008, the Natural Products Association established a standard and seal for natural personal care products, such as lotions, balms and shampoos. To date, more than 340 products have currently been approved and certified.
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April 6th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
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May 17th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
[...] Their MSDS (Material Safety Document Sheet) document shows several hazardous ingredients and petroleum-derived ingredients. Clorox Green Works products are not perfect, but a step in the green, eco friendly direction. Clorox has wide distribution so they will allow more mainstream customers to access greener cleaning products. We prefer the slightly more green Method or Seventh Generation products ourselves as they do not have petroleum derived products. What exactly is a natural cleaning product? [...]