Dish cloths, tea towels, cutting boards and toilets? What do they all have in common?
And how does thieves combat the problem?
The biggest threat to your health right in your own home is first your dishcloth, 2nd your tea towel, 3rd your cutting boards, 4th your toilet.
Dishcloths: Damp and reusable kitchen dish cloths frequently harbour harmful stomach and intestinal bacteria like E. coli, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause food poisoning and stomach bugs.
Tea Towels: A study on kitchen tea towels revealed salmonella (which can cause diarrhoea, fever and stomach cramps). One study sampled 100 used tea towels and found a marked presence of Staphylococcus aureus, which is often found on the skin but is also a pathogen that can cause a variety of issues such as abscesses, joint infections and even pneumonia.
Cutting boards: Wood and all plastic materials. Also kitchen counters used for cutting on. Surfaces were found to have Enterobacter (which can cause respiratory tract infections, skin infections, urinary tract infections and heart, bone and eye infections), Klebsiella (which has been linked to serious infections of the lungs, bladder, brain and blood), and E. coli (which can cause upset stomachs and urinary tract infections).
Several also had Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause lung infections. Bacillus subtilis, which can lead to eye infections and abscesses, was also found in more than half of the kitchens sampled. And all of the samples from the kitchens were found to have Staphylococcus and Micrococcus. In people with weak immune systems, Micrococcus has been linked to lung infections, such as pneumonia and septic arthritis along with eye and heart infections.
The levels and types of germs found on these surfaces, dishcloths and tea towels were influenced by the fabric, how they were used, how often they were washed and how long they were dried for.
Toilets: When you flush a toilet without closing the lid, an invisible mist of water, bacteria, and waste shoots upward at speeds of 6.6 feet per second, reaching nearly 5 feet (1.5 meters) high within 8 seconds. Smaller aerosolized particles can spread horizontally more than 5 feet and linger in the air for over a minute.
This video shows how researchers use lasers to track the high-speed spray and aerosol plume created during a flush:
The Thieves Solution:
1.) Use a clean dishcloth and towel every day.
2.) Wash kitchen laundry separately in hot water with thieves laundry soap.
3.) Add thieves oil to your load of kitchen laundry.
4.) Wash your kitchen counters with thieves cleaner.
5.) Use thieves dish soap and thieves scrub for your sinks.
6.) Use only titanium cutting boards.
7.) Use a strong thieves solution to clean your toilet daily.
8.) Close the toilet lid before flushing.
9.) Diffuse thieves oil in a micro mist diffuser in your kitchen and bathroom.
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A father sent his four sons during different seasons to observe a distant pear tree and learn a vital lesson about judgment.
Winter: The first son made the journey during the freezing cold. He returned to describe a gnarled, stark, bent, and twisted tree that looked completely dead and ugly.
Spring: The second son went a few months later. He reported that the tree was not ugly at all, but rather full of hope and promise with fresh green buds.
Summer: The third son traveled in the warmth of summer. He described a magnificent tree laden with sweet-smelling blossoms, calling it the most gracious and beautiful thing he had ever seen.
Fall: The youngest son made the final journey during the harvest. He found a vibrant tree drooping and heavy with ripe, delicious fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The Lesson
When the year was complete, the father gathered his sons together to share their accounts. After listening to their differing descriptions, he explained that every one of them was correct.
He taught them that they had each only witnessed a single season in the tree's life. He told them it is foolish to judge a person, a life, or any situation based on only one difficult season or a single moment. The true essence of a living thing can only be measured when you see it through all of its cycles—from the stark endurance of winter to the rich fulfillment of fall.
