Hazardous Household Substances: Alternatives That Are Relatively Free of Toxic Effects

This document is FCS3149, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 1988. Revised July 2002, December 2016, November 2019, and April 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

Written by Marie Hammer, former professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences. Revised in 2016 by Chris Koehler, associate professor, Washington State University Extension Grays Harbor County, Elma, Washington; and Randall Cantrell, assistant professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611. Reviewed by Sonja Koukel, interim asst. department head/community and environmental health specialist, College of Agriculture, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, Extension Family & Consumer Sciences, New Mexico State University; and Gina Peek, assoc. department head, grad coordinator, assoc. professor and cooperative Extension housing and consumer specialist, Design, Housing and Merchandising, Oklahoma State University.