5 Tips to go Non-Toxic in Your Home
5 Easy Ways to Detox Your Home
Clean + Conscious
How many of you feel overwhelmed when trying to go chemical-free with your personal care, beauty & home items?
It can be frightening to think that our everyday items we live with and put on our bodies including our family are harmful and can have potential effects on our overall health. Studies estimate that the average woman applies 126 different chemicals each morning, with some of them not even listed on the packaging. Everything from mascara, deodorant toothpaste and moisturizer. There are more than 1,500 questionable or harmful chemicals used as ingredients in beauty and personal care products.
When looking for cleaning products, its always good to look for ones that are made using sustainable manufacturing practices and naturally-derived, safe, nontoxic, and biodegradable ingredients.
“Its not about going chemical-free with everything, its just about being more mindful about what you are using. ”
Having options and choosing to integrate conscious + clean elements into our lives, can be as simple as replacing your laundry detergent to something that is plant-based, made without synthetic fragrances or dyes, which is overall a safer product for your family. Or, the next time you put a meal plan together and go grocery shopping, begin to become more aware of purchasing organic produce that are from the dirty dozen list.
5 easy ways to get cleaner products in your home for daily living that won’t break the bank:
Use Chemical-Free Cleaning Products or Make Your Own
Use Detox Friendly Apps + Resources like Think Dirty or the Never List from BeautyCounter
Replace Items that Absorb on your Skin
Body Lotion + Body Wash
Deodorant
Face Creams
Sunscreen
Use an Air Purifier or Diffuser with Clean Essential Oils throughout the Home
Only Replace the Items Once They Run Out (unless it is causing bad reactions).