There’s a lot to go through when you’re trying to create a more non-toxic living space, but selecting a natural dish soap is especially important since it comes into contact with the items you cook and eat with. Since you use dish soap daily in order to clean your dirty dishes and baby items, it’s …
Many toys & children’s products simply aren’t safe. This is what I’ve learned to look out for when buying toys, both for my kids and for others.
I can’t believe it, but we just got rid of all of our non-stick cookware. I hadn’t planned to do it yet. It was actually going to be one of the last things we replaced… mainly because we had a REALLY nice set that was given to us when we got married, and I loved …
We moved into our house about three years ago. We love it. We searched and searched (and searched and searched and searched) for the perfect home for our family for MONTHS, and at the very end, after we had given up and started to give in on some of our “must-have’s,” this one just sort …
When I started with the organic movement, food was the first thing that changed in our house. To be honest, I hadn’t really thought about all of the other toxins that could be in our home, but I knew that all of the processed foods in our pantry definitely weren’t good for us. It actually …
Plastic is all around us. I recently read a book by Michael Sanclements called Plastic Purge. (It’s a terrific book. You should give it a read!) In one of the chapters, he goes through an average day in our modern world. It’s something like this… We wake up to the sounds of a plastic alarm …
Phthalates, a family of industrial chemicals used to soften PVC plastic and as solvents in cosmetics and other consumer products, can damage the liver, kidneys, lungs, and reproductive system. –Healthcare Without Harm The US government has actually banned the use of phthalates in children’s toys and other children’s products. Which is great, but phthalates can …
Okay, I had to start out with the one that everyone (or nearly everyone) has heard of already. BPA. What is BPA, and Why is it so “Bad”? A number of years ago, a study was done that told the world that BPA was bad for our health. According to healthline.com “BPA has a similar …
I’m a mom of two, and to be completely honest, I only wear makeup a few times per week. I work from home, and my girls stay with me most days, so if we don’t have anywhere to go, I usually don’t have the time or energy to put it on. That being said, I …
I figured the beginning would be a good place to start. I mean, I’m not going to take you all the way back to the day I was born, but let’s start things off with my childhood… What My Diet Looked Like When I Was a Kid I was raised in the deep south. Fried …
