by guest blogger Ava Anderson, safe products advocate The new year is here! Follow these 3 steps to reduce your body’s exposure to harmful chemicals throughout 2016: 1. Skip the fragrance/parfum. The term fragrance can hide an untold number of chemicals in everything from toothpaste, shampoo, and soap to deodorant and dryer sheets. The International […]
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Do You Really Know What’s in Your Favorite Lip Balm?
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, safe products advocate The crisp, late-autumn air means that chapped lips are on their way. But before you reach for that conventional lip balm to treat them, read this: Chapped lips are not just an annual annoyance; they are your lips’ cry for help. When our lips become dry from […]
Is Your Scented Candle Toxic?
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, safe products advocate Fall is upon us, and the holidays will be here before we know it. As the air grows crisper, the aisles in every store will begin to fill with the synthetic fragrance of fall harvest. While we shop, the smells of apple pie, pumpkin spice, and sugarplums […]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Bug Spray
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural-beauty expert and safe-cosmetics advocate Did you know that what we put on our skin can be absorbed directly into our bodies? Our skin is often a gateway to the bloodstream, which is why products like nicotine and estrogen patches work. Unfortunately, our skin lacks the benefit of the body’s […]
3 Types of Products That Pollute Our Water
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural-beauty expert and safe-cosmetics advocate Earth Day may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be thinking about our planet every day of the year. Here are three types of products you should put a little thought into before purchasing, as the wrong varieties can have lasting, […]
6 Organic Ingredients You WANT in Your Beauty Products
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural-beauty expert and safe-cosmetics advocate Typically when writing about beauty and personal care products, I’m explaining which harmful ingredients to avoid—such as fragrances, phthalates, and parabens. But today, I’ve decided to change things up and discuss to the other side of the coin: ingredients you want. Natural beauty isn’t […]
8 Toxic Products to Ban from Your Home Today
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural-beauty expert and safe-cosmetics advocate Many of us made health and wellness resolutions this New Year—eat better, skip the junk food, sign up for yoga classes. One resolution we should ALL make is to create a nontoxic home in 2015. Just as there are health consequences from eating lots of […]
Just Say No to “Fragrance” This Holiday!
by guest blogger Ava Anderson, natural-beauty expert and safe-cosmetics advocate It might smell delicious and divine, but that pleasant scent designed to evoke happiness and fond memories is most likely a concoction brewed from an unknown mashup from a list of 3,000 of potentially dangerous chemicals. Chemicals hidden under the term “fragrance” or “parfum” on […]
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Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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