Green Your Dishwashing Machine

Green Your Dishwashing Machine

As we have already reported, using a dishwasher to clean your dishes is more eco-friendly than washing by hand. But so many Enagic®members don’t enjoy using synthetic chemicals to get their favorite dishes and flatware clean.

Thankfully, you can don’t have to resort to harsh, unnatural ingredients to get your dishes sparkling clean. Using some basic items in your pantry, you can make your own Homemade Dishwasher Detergent:

Homemade Dishwasher Detergent
1 cup washing soda
1 cup Borax (ONLY if you have well water)
2 Tablespoons sea salt

Thoroughly mix together and keep in an air-tight container. Add 1 to 2 Tablespoon of the mixture to each load. If your dishes are cloudy, add a little vinegar or a small drop of Strong Kangen Water Dish Soap to the rinse cycle to reduce cloudiness.

…Or wash with Strong Kangen Water
If you don’t own an Energy Star dishwasher, or just prefer to wash your dishes the old fashioned way, Strong Kangen Water can help! Strong Kangen Water is a powerful cleaner, with extra strength absorption qualities to help fight tough grease and grime from your dishes.

Strong Kangen Water can help you save on your water bill. It takes a quarter of the usual amount of water to rinse off Strong Kangen Water, as opposed to chemical detergents. This is a wonderful environmentally-friendly and healthy decision, as both the Earth and your body will thank you for reducing the amount of chemicals in your home!

Keep your dishes clean the green way, and let your mulit-purpose Enagic® water ionizing machine help make your home chemical-free!

Be Kind to the Earth: Work from Home

Why Work from Home?
The United States Strategic Perspective Institute has suggested even more great reasons to work from home. Working your Enagic® business from home is the perfect option for eco-conscious people, because it can save immeasurable resources. Take a look at these staggering statistics about American’s annual commute:1

• Americans commute 36.9 billion hours a year
• Americans drive 1.9 trillion miles commuting
• Americans spend $255 billion on gasoline for commuting
• Americans consume 60.5 billion gallons of gasoline to commute
• Americans release 1.16 trillion pounds of carbon dioxide into the air while commuting.

Work from the comfort of your home

Work from the comfort of your home

Here are a few reasons you should consider working from home:1

• You can help reduce our reliance on foreign oil
• You can help reduce pollution
• You can help reduce global warming
• You can save money
• You can help reduce the costs for road construction and highway maintenance

That’s right! Your Enagic® business not only improves the physical and financial health of your community, but it also reduces waste and conserves priceless resources.

Take some time to appreciate what your business is doing for your family, greater community, and environment! Thank you for your contribution to making this world a little healthier.

Sources:
1http://usspi.org/projects/working-from-home-council/

Markups To Avoid

The award-winning consumer finance website www.walletpop.com has recently released a list of the 10 most overpriced and highest marked-up items you should avoid. Although we can’t help you out with items like Text Messages (#1 on the list) or Greeting Cards (#8 on the list), we do have a couple suggestions that could help you save money.

Bottled Water

Bottled water has a 4,000% markup, which makes it the #2 Product to Avoid according to walletpop.com. The outrageous markup is partly due to the fact that it takes five bottles of water to make the plastic for one bottle of water.1 Not only is this harmful for your pocket book, but it’s also bad news for the environment. Thankfully, you can save money on pricey bottled water by filling a container with Kangen Water® before you leave the house. It is fast, convenient, and available in your own home with the touch of a button. Kangen Water® is the healthy, affordable choice for every health and budget-conscious American.

Coffee

Thanks to trendy, comfortable coffee shops, your cup of gourmet coffee probably has a 300% markup.brew your favorite (low acidic) coffee at home with healthy, alkaline Kangen WaterWalletpop.com points out the startling fact that while you pay $3 or more for your favorite cafe coffee, you can make the same quality cup of coffee at home for 25 cents. Why not save some money and brew your favorite (low acidic) coffee at home with healthy, alkaline Kangen Water®? You can cut out the cost and the high levels of acidity!

Don’t get trapped into high markup products that are easily avoidable! You can capitalize on quality and savings when you get creative with Kangen Water®. And perhaps you can even start writing your own greetings cards while you’re brewing Kangen Water® coffee in the comfort of your own home!

Sources:
1http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/09/27/10-most-overpriced-products-you-should-avoid/

Safe Cleaning with Kangen Water®

Did you know that Strong Acid Water and Strong Kangen Water are the perfect solutions for cleaning your home? Both types of water are wonderfully powerful cleaning agents and, when combined with other natural ingredients, can be used to create an entire line of chemical-free cleaning products.

Commercial cleaners are loaded with dangerous chemicals. Even those products labeled “non-toxic” can havechemicals serious health consequences if over-used or accidentally ingested by a small pet or child. Did you know manufacturers aren’t even required to list all the ingredients used in their products? They can pick and choose which ingredients to list.

Store-bought cleaning products are filled with unnatural, lab-created surfactants, enzymes, stabilizers and preservatives. These chemicals invade your home and wreak havoc on your health. They are then rinsed down the drain, into the city’s water supply and eventually come back through your faucet. Chemicals found in commercial products are unhealthy for you, your family, and the environment.

The recipes we’ve included below are inexpensive, safe, and effective. You will have satisfaction in a job well done and also be able to take pride in the knowledge that you are doing your part to ensure the safety and health of not only your family but also the families who share your city’s water source.

Throw a Party!

Throw a “Think Clean, Think Kangen” party and enter fall with a healthy, chemical-free home.

Invite friends and family to bring two reusable spray bottles and one recycled dish liquid bottle. Each person will leave with three chemical-free, effective products to replace their current stain remover, all-purpose cleaner, and liquid dish soap.

Most people know that commercial products are full of dangerous chemicals, so use this time to show how inexpensive and easy it is to create your own safe cleaning products with your Kangen Water® machine and a few natural ingredients.

Think Clean. Think Kangen.

Listed below are the recipes you’ll use to create the first three products in your safe-cleaning lineup:

strong kangen water is an excellent stain removerStain Remover

Keep a spray bottle of strong acid water on hand for stains. It works amazingly well on oily stains and other food-based stains on clothing.

For stains on white clothing, add some lemon oil or lemon juice, spray on stained whites and line dry in the sun to remove stains.

For difficult and/or set-in stains:
Fill a bucket with strong acid water and soak whites overnight, then wash in washing machine the next day, and line dry in bright sunlight to whiten whites.

create your own all-purpose cleaner with Strong Kangen WaterAll-Purpose Cleaner

1/2 teaspoon washing soda
2 teaspoons borax powder
1/2 teaspoon liquid soap
2 cups Strong Kangen Water
10-12 drops of essential oil optional

Put all ingredients into a spray bottle, tighten lid and shake to blend ingredients.

clean dishes with Strong Kangen WaterLiquid Dish Soap

3 tablespoons liquid castille soap (e.g. Dr. Bronner’s)
2 cups Strong Kangen Water
2 teaspoons vegetable glycerine
2 tablespoons white vinegar or lemon juice
10 drops essential oil optional

Combine in recycled dish soap bottle and shake to blend.

Be sure to read the blog!

We’ll release more ‘Cleaning with Kangen’ recipes, along with extra tips, to add to your cleaning supplies. Soon, you’ll have all you need to keep a spotless, healthy home.

Need help finding some of the ingredients we used?
Essential oils, glycerine and castille soap can all be found at any natural food store. Washing soda and borax can usually be found in the laundry aisle at most supermarkets. All products can also be found at amazon.com.

Sources:

http://earth911.com/news/2009/04/01/lawsuit-pressures-companies-to-provide-ingredients-of-household-cleaners/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/16/earlyshow/living/home/main6212305.shtml

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=chemicals-in-household-cleaners

All-Natural Pet Health

All-Natural Pet HealthMost Americans love to pamper their pets and keep them healthy, happy, and well-adjusted. In fact, over 60% of Americans own at least one pet, and the most popular pets are, not surprisingly, dogs and cats. Your veterinarian has probably recommended flea and tick treatments so he can live a long, healthy life without the nuisance and dangers of these parasites. But have you ever wondered if the chemicals in those treatments are safe for you and your pet?

The truth is quite shocking! There are pyrethroid-based chemicals, organophosphate insecticides (Ops), and carbamates found in most flea and tick treatments, and these ingredients can be very hazardous to pets and children. At least 1,600 pet deaths have been reported to the EPA over the course of five years as a result of these spot-on chemical-filled treatments, yet the government agency has still not enforced harsher regulations.

But do not fret! You don’t have to spend an outrageous amount of money on all-natural treatments, and you don’t have to succumb to using dangerous products on your pet! You can take Fido’s health into your own hands and make a healthy, natural, and effective flea and tick treatment in the comfort of your own home with Enagic’s Beauty Water. You’ll have peace of mind that every ingredient is good for him. See our recipe below.
Clean dogs with Beauty water
And while you’re making a healthy flea and tick treatment with Beauty Water, why not think about making your own pet shampoo as well? Most pet shampoos contain a chemical called pyrethrin, which has been potentially linked to an increased risk of autism. Pregnant women who bathe their pets with shampoos that contain pyrethrin are twice as likely to give birth to a child with an autistic spectrum disorder, according to early results from the study conducted by Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment.

If these findings are any indication of what pyrethrin can do to an unborn child, think of the hazards of scrubbing your beloved pet with chemical-laden shampoo! The good news is that thanks to Enagic’s Beauty Water, you don’t have to purchase expensive holistic pet shampoos; you can make your own shampoo right at home.

Here are the recipes:

Flea and Tick Spray

  • 2 teaspoons essential oil (rose geranium or palmarosa)
  • 2 cups Beauty Water

Combine ingredients in spray bottle and shake to blend.
Spray pet and areas where pet sleeps.

All natural pet schampoo with Beauty water

Pet Shampoo

  • 1/3 cup glycerine
  • 1 cup natural dish soap
  • 1 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1 quart Beauty Water

Combine ingredients in a large recycled bottle and use as needed.

Enagic’s Beauty Water can help you keep your pet happy, healthy, clean and comfortable!