Week six

Interim Critique

Proposal

Long term: To improve health and wellbeing

Ultimate: Reducing the use of harsh chemical cleaners and soaps we use and finding alternatives

Inspiration:

I don’t have any health issues myself but I have had an experience when using oven cleaners that

even the smell made me feel sick and affected my breathing for a small amount of time. Through this

experience it really made me wonder what are really in these products and why do I feel like that they

could be doing harm to my health and are there other alternatives I can use?

Vision:

My vision is to make people more aware of the cleaning products that they are purchasing. Many

household cleaners and soaps contain harsh chemical ingredients that can harm our indoor air

pollution and are often linked to health problems such as asthma. In the end it is a small change we

are making to our lives, whether it’s changing to a safer product or making your own at home. In the

long run this small change can be beneficial to our health and our environment.

Research:

Through my research I found some very shocking information that some of the products we are using

can do a lot of harm. Children are particularly vulnerable than adults are as their bodies are still

developing. They spend more time with direct contact to surfaces and may accidently put things in

their mouths for example and this can lead to exposure from places that may have been cleaned with

these chemicals.

Chemicals such as drain cleaners, oven cleaners, and acidic toilet bowl cleaners are in fact the worst

for our health. The corrosive chemicals that these products can cause severe burns on eyes, skin and,

if ingested, on the throat and oesophagus which is extremely alarming and concerning that in some

cases that these products can lead on to cancer risk. Health risks aren’t the only problems associated

with these products they also can have an impact on the environment, as they can enter waterways

and pollute our streams and rivers. This can then enter our food chain in some cases where they are

consumed by aquatic life such as fish and then the cycle continues where we eat the fish and in some

ways can have an impact on our health.

Feed back:
-Make it more clearer
-Think of it more as pathways. Have clear pathways !
- Back everything up
-Work on visuals, too all over the place