My last real hold-out on personal products containing chemicals has been deodorant. I’ve found great toxic-free alternatives for everything from shampoo to nail polish. But fresh-smelling underarms was the one thing that I was unwilling to sacrifice in my quest to use products without toxic chemicals. (I don’t want to scare off my friends by stinking!) […]
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Smell Ya Later: Perfume & Toxic Chemicals
“I love to stink!” said nobody, ever. Let’s face it, we live in a relatively vain and materialistic society where we are drawn to products that make us smell good — perfume, lotion, body wash. And not just women. Men use cologne, body spray, etc. The thing is, that floral perfume or fruity body wash […]
Favorite Thing: Non-Toxic Personal Products
When I first took an interest in avoiding allergenic/carcinogenic/hormone-disrupting chemicals, I sat down one night with a legal pad and wrote down every category of product I regularly used, from hand soap to facial moisturizer to deodorant. For a few weeks, I researched other blogs, online stores like Amazon.com and Vitacost.com, and organic grocery retailers […]
Cleaning House
A dear friend of mine gave me a really thoughtful gift the other week — a book called The Naturally Clean Home. It’s a neat little book containing basic homemade recipes for easy concoctions to clean anything in your home from wood furniture to bathtub tile to carpet. I already liked the idea of homemade, […]
My Chemical Reaction
My initial interest in toxic-free products and foods was fueled by my realization that there were so many potentially harmful chemicals in the foods and products I was consuming on a daily basis. Have you noticed recently that some products you pick up have a label that say something like, “formulated without sulfates, parabens, petrochemicals, […]
