Impeccability in clothes is part of the image. A white bed is a guarantee of a good rest. We erase so that everything is on top. Make the clothes perfectly clean, save from specks and smudges, fill with the scent of a spring meadow, a summer field or frosty freshness - it's easy. You can wash with a quality powder, whiten with a modern product, give a pleasant smell, dropping from a bottle with air conditioning.
Great! Provided that all this is safe for the baby and other family members. After all, the constituents of powders and other means for washing clothes are often quite harmful, especially if you do not wash by the rules.
A look at the composition
Many powders presented on the domestic market can indeed be dangerous, especially for children. They contain phosphates and surfactants (surfactants). Both are harmful to humans and the environment. Therefore, in the countries of the European Union, their use is strictly regulated. In our country, the situation, unfortunately, is critical. The reservoirs are actively contaminated with phosphates, which leads to their flowering, and in the permanent green water accumulates multi-toxins, some of which penetrate through the filters into the water pipe, and then the human body. It threatens with intoxication, increased risk of cancer, increases the threat of premature termination of pregnancy ... Moreover, the phosphates remaining in tissue fibers are constantly in contact with the skin and cause irritation, rashes, redness, allergies.
If such substances are in the blood, then they affect the sesophagitis, in the future it provokes metabolic disorders, dysfunctions of other organs. Very dangerous and surfactants. The most harmful are the anionic ones. They are not only in powders, but also in means for washing utensils and floors, cleaning the equipment and even in shampoos and shower gels. Wherever there is a lot of foam, there are many SAWs. It turns out that they get into the body from a wide variety of sources, causing allergies, causing damage to the kidneys, liver and lungs, reducing the overall and local immunity.
Why are they needed? To increase the efficiency of purification, the effectiveness of phosphates. Anionic surfactants are also cheap, whereas slightly less dangerous cationic and non-iogenic immediately immediately increase the cost of the final product.
In Europe, the content of surfactants and phosphates is prescribed at the national level. For the Ukrainian market, companies that produce phosphate-free powders for Europeans produce more harmful variants of the same product. And all because we do not have the relevant laws.
Think and choose
To find phosphate-free powders with a low content of surfactants in our stores is still real. Although this is not always an easy task. However, the more common we will ask in supermarkets a more eco-friendly product, the higher the likelihood that it will appear on store shelves.
Carefully read the composition. Not all packages contain the percentage of certain substances, but even their order (those that are at the beginning of the list are presented in a larger number) will tell you something about the level of harmfulness.
The presence of phosphonates in "besfosfatnyh" powders indicates a deception of the buyer. Phosphonates are just as harmful as phosphates, just the name sounds somewhat different.
To wash children's things, choose only children's remedies. They are always safer. At the same time, pay attention to those that position themselves as eco-friendly, have the appropriate certificates and an entry: "Besphosphate". The more the foam is foamed, the more harmful it is. Therefore, you can not buy a second time a remedy, which gives a lot of foam (this applies to everything, even shampoos). In addition, the foam has a bad effect on the "health" of the washing machine. Say no to the flavors. The neutral the smell of household chemicals, the less harmful it is. Purchase a separate powder for color and white linens, do not need additional means (bleaches, conditioners), especially for washing baby clothes.
Laundry by the rules
A small clarification: first of all, we are talking about security rules.
Use as much powder corresponding to the color of the laundry, the type of material from which it is made, as indicated on the package, given the degree of contamination of the fabric, the amount and origin of the stains.
Stainers apply in advance and only in a dirty place. Anecdotal things better to first dunk, and then, carefully wringing out, wash in the typewriter. Rinse several times in a row. In the machine version, set the "additional rinse" function. Sometimes it makes sense to include more and mode delikatkatnoy washing, it is without the addition of powder.
When hand washing is suitable and more gentle means. For example, the little things of the child can be washed with baby soap. But then carefully rinse them. And clean and safe!