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Baby Stepping to Natural Products at Simple Organic

January 14th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living

If this week’s Monday Mission of throwing out all your parabens is a huge step for you right now – like it would have been for me a few years ago – check out my easy reading article at Simple Organic today. (It’s actually well under 1000 words; I get teased a lot because of [...]

Monday Mission: Parabens Bite the Dust

January 9th, 2012 · 106 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get rid of your junky personal products, once and for all. I told you last week that we’d take "Back to Basics" topics and give them a one-up, a challenge for those of you who have already taken many basic steps to securing a real food [...]

Your Frugal Solution to Natural Skin Care

November 10th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Natural Health

I shake my head in awe. I’ve learned so much just skimming the first half of Crunchy Betty’s Food on Your Face for Acne and Oily Skin already. I’m really looking for the spot on pimple cream to nab this annoying and painful zit on my cheek – my first since giving birth, darn hormones [...]

Will Oil Pulling Fix my Sensitive Teeth…or is it Just a Hoax?

October 26th, 2011 · 86 Comments · Natural Health

A few thoughts ran simultaneously through my head the first time I read about oil pulling: What a crackpot idea Um, gross! This is not something I will ever try Yet here I am, trying yet another gross crackpot idea that has to do with food! Oil pulling is the practice of putting unrefined oil [...]

Monday Mission: Tackle Those ‘Pits

October 24th, 2011 · 18 Comments · Green Living, Monday Missions, Natural Health

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make sure your deodorant is safe. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Way back over a year ago when we talked about the dangers of aluminum during Analyzing Aluminum in August, I posted the homemade deodorant recipe I had been using. At that time, however, [...]

Natural Sunscreen Review: Do Mineral-Based Sunblocks Work?

July 20th, 2010 · 128 Comments · Special Situations, What to Buy

“If I get sunburned today, I’m really going to have a hard time putting trust in the natural sunscreen,” my husband said during our six hours in the sun, each slathered half and half with two different natural zinc oxide sunscreens. My husband has used the same sunscreen for years: Coppertone Sport, as high an [...]

Spring Cleaning Carnival: Get the Parabens Out

April 20th, 2010 · 20 Comments · Uncategorized

Although not necessarily part of your kitchen routine, personal products are “consumed” in a way by your skin, so they must be taken into account when trying to make positive nutritional changes (and be good to the Earth). Today Micaela from Mindful Momma will walk you through one set of dangers and share some practical [...]