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(2,150 posts)building materials with adhesives and formadehyde, filter your water with an excellent filter; don't use fabric softeners or "fabric sheets" in your dryer.
Use vinegar to clean with. Use Steve Tvetden's concoctions to get rid of insects like red ants. His enzyme products really work.
New clothing should be put in the washing machine with fragrance and dye free laundry detergent like Seven Generations "Free and Clear", and then pour a bottle or two of isopropyl alcohol poured on the clothing. Don't use much water for the first run, and then rinse it by adding nothing and putting it through the wash cycle again to get all the soap and residual chemicals out.
We do this without fail and never use clothing or sheets unless it has been treated this way to shed the pyrethroid pesticides and other synthetic poisons first. The way to break the molecular bond with the atomic structure of the fabric is by using the polar solvent isopropyl alcohol... information given to us by the brave toxcologist Dr. James Moss, of Gulf War Illness fame.
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(2) Schreck, C.E., Kane, F., and Carlson, D.A., 1982, Permethrin impregnations of military fabrics: an evaluation of application rates and industrial methods by bioassay and gas chromatographic analysis: Soap, Cosmetics, and Chemical Specialists, v. 58, no. 8, p. 36-39. English. Sorption to Resins. CA97(22):183855c.
(3) Schreck, C.E., Posey, K., and Smith, D., 1978, Durability of permethrin as a potential clothing treatment to protect against blood-feeding arthropods: Journal of Economic Entomology, v. 71, no. 3, p. 397-400. English. Sorption to Resins. CA89(11):85711t.
(4) Bry, R.E., Lang, J.H., Boatright, R.E., and Simonaitis, R.A., 1977, Durability of resmethrin on woolen cloth: Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society, v. 12, no. 2, p. 173-179. English. Sorption to Resins. CA88(22):154238n.
(5) Schreck, C.E., Posey, K., and Smith, D., 1978, Durability of permethrin as a potential clothing treatment to protect against blood-feeding arthropods: Journal of Economic Entomology, v. 71, no. 3, p. 397-400. English. Sorption to Resins. CA89(11):85711t