Companies who produce cleaning or air freshening products are not required by the EPA or anyone else to list the ingredients they use. For a long time, it has been a common and understandable assumption that anything capable of dissolving three month's worth of grease and nastiness from the inside of your oven can't be too great for your health.
While this probably remains true, SC Johnson has taken the brilliant step of listing online everything that they use to produce their products, from active ingredients to those that create fragrance. You can check it out here. The site offers not just the ingredients, but also a layman's explanation of what the ingredients are and why they are used in the product.
On the downside, SC Johnson is obviously not going to explain to their customers how bad these ingredients are to their personal health, only how bad they are to the health of their various household clogs, stains, and odors. Still, it' s a step in the right direction.
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