The term “chemical” is so pity! Because, it always gets bad press. Chemicals are harmful, dangerous & environmentally unfriendly this is a popular misleading idea running in every society. Chemicals can be classified as harmful & harmless which mainly depends on its decomposability, toxicity etc. However, we are not here to debate the morality of the chemicals, yet we are concerned about the misuse of “Natural Resources” particularly in the making process of cleansing agents like detergent bar, dish wash bar, etc.

The major elements used for making detergent are calcite, dolomite & feldspar are used as mineral fillers. In order to get these elements in a powder form mighty hills have to be disintegrated slowly and this process continues till the hill coverts into a plain. For making our cloths clean and fresh, we just need a good cleansing agent and it is absolutely not necessary to make a hill or even mountain to fall apart. Imagine, we are breaking the hill or mountain and getting the minerals out and utilizing it in the process of making detergent & dishwash bars and after its usage its residues blocks our drainage channel which can potentially damage home & business facilities.

Ultimately, we are dismantling hills or mountains and filling on the bottom of the river bed. Adding to the woes, the human capital, transportation, electricity amenities & time are used heavily in the process of making detergent & dishwash bars. If you observe closely, making detergent & dishwash bars through declining hills or mountain is an inefficient one. Firstly, natural resources are exhausted & it damages the environment next this cleansing agents works only to an extent and finally the mineral residues obstruct the flow of drainage and eventually that mineral particle settles on the river bed.

Surprisingly, you don’t need a car or nuclear reactor to harm the environment effectively on the other hand using detergent and dishwash bars does that task ably. This time, the focus is not about the chemical ingredients but about the mineral inputs in the cleansing agents. The destruction caused by using the latter has more weightage than the former. To put it simply, your detergent & dish bars are not an expert in cleaning, injures environment & blocks your drainage flow.

Normally, 5gms (approx.) is required for washing one cloth in that 2.5gms (approx.) will be minerals that will be either calcite, dolomite or feldspar. Think how many clothes are in your washing list and how many times you are washing in a week. Definitely, you are not sole washer on the planet everyone washes their clothes. Then calculate the tons of minerals which are wasted in the process of washing the clothes. For the past 50 years this was the story we need to change if not for nature’s sake, for god’s sake at least for us.