It's cleaner and greener to kick off your shoes when you enter your home. Because GRIPPIES makes a non-slip surface on your children's tights and socks, you can keep your house cleaner and healthier, and worry less about slips and falls on uncarpeted floors.

Removing your shoes when you enter your home is a great way to reduce your exposure to lead, dust, pesticides, and other pollutants. The professional cleaning industry estimates that we track 85% of the dirt in our homes in from the outside on our shoes.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) specifically recommends that shoes remain outside the house. According to a 1991 report called the Doormat Study, lead-contaminated soil from the outside causes almost all the lead dust inside homes, and it notes that wiping shoes on a mat and removing them at the door cuts lead dust by 60 percent. The study explains that limiting the amount of dust and track-in may also help reduce exposure to lawn and garden pesticides, wood smoke and industrial toxins, mutagens, dust mites, and allergens.

SOURCES

http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/leadinfo.htm#protect

http://earth1.epa.gov/oppt/lead/pubs/educationexesum.htm