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"   One of the biggest trends in cleaning products is to package them in sleek, decorative containers so they almost don&amp;#039;t look like cleaning products at all. The thinking here is that if they are more attractive, you&amp;#039;re more likely to leave them out and, therefore, more likely to use them. But doing so can put your family and pets at risk. In a recent investigation by our Good Housekeeping Research Institute Home Appliances and Cleaning Products Department, we found a number of cleaning products on local store shelves that could easily be mistaken for beauty, or worse yet, food products. Most obvious, is Renuzit&amp;#039;s Crystal Elements Ruby Berries Air Freshener (above, left) that looks so much like a dish of candy, it&amp;#039;s scary. While the product does carry appropriate safety precautions (it&amp;#039;s also a choking hazard for children under 3 years of age) on the box and dish, we did find some online postings about kids and adults who actually thought it was candy and took a piece to eat. We found a blue pine cleaner in a sleek, easy-to-grab bottle that could pass for a sports drink and Method&amp;#039;s Le Scrub Bathroom Cleaner (below, left), if left by the tub, might easily be used in place of this Bliss skin exfoliator (below, center). Also below (right), is a home fragrance from L&amp;#039;Occitane en Provence that any little girl, thinking it was her mom&amp;#039;s perfume, might spritz on herself or a friend.    The lesson here is that while none of these products are unsafe when used according to directions, it&amp;#039;s just not enough anymore to store them out of reach of children and pets. You have to make sure they&amp;#039;re not stashed in the same cabinets as food or beauty products. Be alert to a product&amp;#039;s packaging (front and back) before you buy. If you think there&amp;#039;s a chance your family members might inadvertently mistake it for something else, it&amp;#039;s best to put it back on the store shelf. For more examples of how cleaning product packages can fool you, check out our full online investigation of The Dangers of Pretty Products, also in our June issue. For tips to keep kids safe in the kitchen, watch our online video report.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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