What is Clean?

Our journey to answer this question spans centuries but really took off at the discovery of bacteria, an extremely advantageous development in our ability to survive and flourish as a species.

Form that came the notion of hygiene. So we made sure we had cleaner bodies and cleaner homes – directly resulting in less illness, less disease and the advent of antibiotics.

This last development brought us to a bend in the road with the influx of hundreds of anti-bacterial products. We’ve come to realize that what we call germs (whether viral or bacterial) are organisms that evolve and change quickly. We now know that they have learned to resist the very substances we’ve created to kill them. And they have done this quite efficiently.

We’ve inadvertently started a battle against an adversary that evolves and changes much faster than we can anticipate. It’s a battle that we can’t win. We’ve learned the hard way that sterility should not be our definition of clean.

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Bev McLeish

Chartered Herbalist

Herbal North