The Hazard of Household Cleaning Products
Cleaning supplies can be surprisingly harmful. In the article “How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?” Published by Organic Consumers Association, which is an online, and grassroots non-profit organization that was founded in 1998. The author effectively argues that using cleaning products have a serious threat not only to our health but also to our environment. In the article, there were various supporting examples to back the claim the author was making. Similarly, in the second article ‘The Hazards of Household Cleaning Products' written by Janice Hughes, She argues that there are side effect of using cleaning household product. Detergents and stain removers used in our everyday life have an undesirable effect. However, Hughes did not support her claim with enough sufficient evidence. In general both articles emphasize the hazard associated with using chemical products. The author in the article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' makes a better argument by giving more details and explaining how cleaning products have unwanted effects on our health and environment.

The hazard of Chemicals founded in the cleaning products can lead several illnesses. Specific substances are the reason for a particular disease when used. In the article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' The writer exactly describes the type of chemical used as well as diseases caused by them. For instance, they explain how ethanolamine (DEA) and triethanolamine (TEA) a substance used in cleaning products as scudding agents when react with nitrites often used as preservative can caused if used on long term cancer. In the other hand, Janice Hughes dose not exactly informs the reader what are the chemicals may cause diseases. According to her, most chemicals used in household will cause harmful effect to us. However, there were not any scientific proofs to confirm her claim. By linking the chemical used and the disease caused by them, the author in the article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' pass on more convening method to the reader.

The interesting and noteworthy point that the author makes in the article published by Organic Consumers Association is the fact who companies can list their chemical formulas as fragrance since their trade consider as a secret. Hiding the exact chemical used by companies to make the product. According to the article, The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health found that one- third of substances in fragrances consider toxic. the toxicity of these chemicals can block or mimic action of some hormones. Leading to decreased sperm counts or increase rates of male birth defects. This fact is emotionally shocking and scary to the reader especially parents. Considering that their newly born babies can be born with a birth defect.

Whoever the author did clarifies how that can happen.

The hazard of cleaning products on the environment is one aspect both authors talked about in the articles. Janice Hughes talks about ocean pollution caused by phosphate found in laundry detergent. Phosphates can kill life in rivers and oceans. She argues that the average person consume thirty pound of laundry detergent a year, which according to her is a high number. However, she did not inform the reader with the source of that number used in her article, which weaken her argument. And makes the reader wonders about the truth of her claim.

Conversely, in the second article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' Convey several features to the effect of the toxic substance to the environment. First, the author argues that after cleaning liquids disappear down to our drain. At the municipal treatment plants they treated with sewage and other waste products, then discharged into nearby water. According to the author, most of those chemicals will break down to harmless substances. However, other can be threating to water quality or wildlife in oceans and rivers.

Secondly, in the article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' the author indicate another environmental problem by using plastic bottles to package cleaning products. Some plastic bottle contains polyvinyl chloride (PVC) know as vinyl, a potent carcinogenic substance besides it is not acceptable for recycling.
As the author points some dangerous plastic bottles, he also indicates that there are some packaging that not only safe, but also acceptable for recycling like, polyethylene terephthalate (PETE). By mentioning that safe option, the author offers an effective solution the environmental toxicity caused the substance in plastic bottles used to package cleaning products.

Cleaning product makes our life more convenient, and we cannot stop using them. The author of ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' effectively convinces reader to stop using dangerous chemicals and start using safer cleaning products. By offering alternative solutions, to reduce the hazard of some chemicals in cleaning products on our health and our environment. In contract, Janice did not offer any solutions that can be used to lower the rate of those dangerous substances. Assuming that reader should just stop using them based on the risks she mentioned.

There are several solutions to minimize the danger of household cleaning products. In the article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' There are solutions to help to reduce using harmful cleaning products. For example, using natural substances such as baking soda and vinegar or lemon juice can be used for scrubbing surfaces. When using, natural substances are as effective as chemical cleaning products, besides they cost less money. Also, avoid using products labeled by single word like danger, warning and caution. Because those products contain more than one substance, But Most companies will not list all of the dangerous ingredients used, and they will only label them as a danger.

Overall both articles call attention to the hazard related to using cleaning products in household. The author of the article ‘How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?' conduct more effective and solid argument. Because the author describes what are substances used in cleaning products and then linked their use to specific diseases. They describe chemical reactions that take place with these chemicals, which was more reasonable and convincing to the reader. On the other hand, Hughes uses the general term chemical as it is always has a negative effect on human health and environment. She suggests that cleaning products have a harmful effect without access to the truth behind that harm of these chemicals. She only draws attention to some facts about the topic without supporting them with either evidences or studies.