Llama Naturals: Clean Gummy Vitamins I Can Get Behind!
Before I was known for teaching kids to cook, I was pretty well known for reviewing a whole bunch of the same kind of thing…
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Natural Personal Products
What Hand Soap I Use Now (and Why I Still Avoid Antibacterial!)
A reader recently emailed in asking what I use for hand soap these days, and I knew I needed this update. Nostalgia hit hard! Would…
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8 DIY Natural Moisturizers That Will Leave Your Skin Feeling Amazing
This post was written by Angela Wills of Savvy Homemade. It was edited by Amanda Kay and fact-checked by Hailey Rose McLaughlin. A natural moisturizer…
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7 Tips to Find the Best Tinted Mineral Sunscreen for Faces
I’ll never forget the first time my husband attempted to put tinted mineral sunscreen on his face. We were in Costa Rica, and he walked…
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Cheap Reef-Safe Sunscreens
The best reef-safe sunscreens can be expensive! Here’s how to protect the reefs, your family, and not spend more than you have to with cheap…
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How to Find Safe Sunscreen Ingredients
I’ve done hundreds of hours of research on sunscreens. I’ve visited the local morning news multiple times to share sunscreen information. And most importantly, my…
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What You Need to Know About Reef-Safe Sunscreen
If you just want the quick guide to the best reef-safe sunscreens, see my top recommended brands on my sunscreen review! If you want to…
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How to Apply Mineral Sunscreen | The Dabba Dabba Method!
I lend out sunscreen all the time. When you’ve tested over 120 brands, you have tins and bottles and tubes all over your house. We…
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Hawaii Ban on Toxic Ingredients in Sunscreen is in Effect! (The Sunscreens You CAN Use and Why)
Because my family has tested over 120 natural sunscreens to find the very best ones, and I’m known as the “Wikipedia of sunscreen,” I tend…
Natural Hand Sanitizers: Best Choices and Dangers of Conventional Sanitizer
In America, the land of excess, it’s been a surprising feeling to have anything in short supply, nonetheless completely out. When toilet paper was impossible…
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Why Is Mineral Sunscreen Better than Chemical Sunscreen?
When it comes to mineral sunscreen versus chemical sunscreen, the winner is clear in my book. It’s not always easy to explain in a clear,…
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Is Antibacterial Soap More Effective than Regular Soap? The Dangers of Antibacterial Soap
I’ve been passionate about healthy, non-toxic soap for YEARS. It’s so important to use regular soap vs. non-antibacterial soap. Remember Triclosan, the active ingredient in…
How to Go Paraben Free – And What to Use Instead
Parabens. You may have heard the word bantered about, but are parabens bad? Just what are those nasty little buggers anyway? Should you go paraben…
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Dangers of Parabens: What They Are and Where They’re Lurking
What do conventional sunscreen, drugstore lipstick, and big brand snack cakes have in common…other than that hopefully they’re not in your house? 😉 They all…
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DIY Herbal Gift Recipes: Fun Ideas to Make With Kids {Guest Post}
This is a guest post from Carol Little, R.H. of Studio Botanica. Whenever I (Katie) have made homemade gifts with my kids, it’s always super…
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Non-Toxic Nail Polish Review: Final Test Results are In!
Back when I wrote about non-toxic nail polish (important because of all the negative health effects of the chemicals found in conventional nail polish) tons…
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Why You Should Never Use Chemical Sunscreens
If I go down in history as the Wikipedia of mineral sunscreens, I might be just a little proud of that moniker. Since 2010 my…
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Zinc-Based Sunscreens People Love Asking Me About (and why I don’t love them back)
My family has tested over 100 natural mineral sunscreens over the years and inevitably, we’ve found some we just don’t love as much as our…
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Natural Sunscreens That Just Don’t Work (and they’re giving the others a bad name, grrrr!)
When you test over 100 sunscreens, some make the top recommended “best natural mineral sunscreen” tier which is highly coveted and quite a small group,…
New Research: Common Personal Care Ingredient May Cause Newborn Bowel Obstruction with 80% Mortality
Is your baby’s colon worth having pretty eyelashes? Would you trade your child’s ability to poop for a pretty smelling shampoo? Let’s make a deal:…