Consistently I write in this blog about the use of natural cleaning products.

My husband and I are considering all aspects of our home that we will be building green in the near future.  I was talking about Bidets as he was a plumber before working from home.  The subject came up because of our grand daughters that live with us and the toilet paper they waste and the number of times our toilets have been stopped up from them using way too much.

I eliminated paper towels from my home and now it was time to eliminate toilet paper.

Bidets are used in the European countries and have been for years.  In America they are just beginning to be seen as an option. 

There are Bidets that have heated seats, remotes that allow you to aim the water in different positions, warm or cold and high or low output.  I began researching these and though I thought of the water consumption, the electricity used with the fancier ones I believe they are much more economical and earth friendly than using toilet paper.  We use 36.5 billions rolls of toilet paper in the U.S. each year, this represents at least 15 million trees pulped. This also involves 473,587,500,000 gallons of water to produce the paper and 253,000 tons of chlorine for bleaching purposes. The manufacturing process requires about 17.3 terawatts of electricity annually. Also, there is the energy and materials involved in packaging and transporting the toilet paper to households across the country.

A Bidet also offers us better hygeine, especially feminine hygeine.

Three great reasons to use a bidet are: you will be cleaner, healthier and benefit the envvironment.

To me using toilet paper is primitive, costly to our environment and has no place in a green society.  When we build our new home there will be a bidet in every bathroom in the house.  I believe that once you use a bidet you will never go back to toilet paper.

This blog is about natural cleaning products and cleaning any part of your body is as natural as it gets.

 

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