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In The Garden

One of the most toxic and hazardous chemicals you have in your home are the pesticides you use in your garden.

There are a huge amount (approximately 1,400) fungicides, pesticides, and herbicides that are used as ingredients in commercial/consumer garden products.   If you count pesticides in combination with other toxic chemicals like solvents then you’re looking at more than 34,000 different formulations of products.

Some Of The More Common Pesticides:

Organophosphate:  Used mainly as insecticides.  These chemicals disrupt an enzyme that regulates an important neurotransmitter thus effecting the nervous system.   Some of these chemicals are very poisonous (so much so that they were used as nerve agents in WW11).

Carbamate Pesticides:  Used mainly as a pesticide.  Effects the same neurotransmitter that Organophosphate does thus effecting the nervous system.

Organochlorine:  Used as an insecticide.  This chemical was taken off the market due to it’s effects on the environment and people’s health.  It’s most common product was DDT.

Pyrethroid Pesticides:  Used as a pesticide.  This is a synthetic version of a pyrethrin which is a pesticide that occurs naturally.  This chemical can be toxic to the nervous system.

You can find a full list of pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides here:  EPA.Gov-Pesticides