When Sloan and Roger Barnett’s three–year-old son was rushed to an emergency hospital with a serious asthmatic attack–probably caused by household chemicals–Sloan Barnett was soon launched on her mission to gather all crucial and relative information and make it easily accessible to everyone. In 2008 she published her “Green Goes With Everything”–a thoroughly researched handbook for anyone to clean up their home, protect their family and help the planet—and she has done this in a very reader-friendly and engaging style. Sloan gives us a simple, down-to-earth primer on the ways our homes are making us sick and what we can all do to change them into the safe sanctuaries we want and need them to be. She exposes the toxic truth behind the household products that many use every day—from laundry detergent to toothpaste to lipstick. She explains how such seemingly benign stuff can harm us and our children.
She has an array of alternatives and inspires us to see that we are never helpless—that every day we have the power to make better, smarter, safer choices for ourselves, our family and our planet. Follow even a little of her advice and your children will eat healthier, breathe cleaner air, and learn for themselves how to identify and avoid potentially toxic materials.
As the wife of CEO Roger Barnett of the Shaklee Corporation, Sloan was certainly in the right place to learn how to “green” her household products, for the Shaklee Corporation had been green for 50 years—“green” when it was just a color. She now has set up a website to offer more information, www.greengoeswitheverything.com. Her book can be had from Amazon.com for mere pennies.