I want to highlight a few oral products I’ve been using recently, including a new toothpaste I absolutely love. It’s from Weleda and it’s their salt toothpaste. The sodium chloride makes you salivate, which helps clean your mouth. There are also no nasty chemicals and a strong dose of menthol (peppermint oil) which is very [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal Care Products’ Category
27 Aug
Un-petroleum
I am addicted to Vaseline, aka petroleum jelly. I have been using it on my lips at night before bed since I was 14 years old. I have never used an alternative, despite my desire to eliminate all petroleum products from my household, because I don’t like flavor or scents in my nighttime lip balm. [...]
22 Aug
Green You!
Deirdre Imus has written three books in her bestselling Green This! Series. The first volume is Greening Your Cleaning, an excellent resource on how to clean your home and clothes with fewer chemicals. The second volume is Growing Up Green, a book that covers plastic baby bottles, vaccines, etc. Probably my favorite in the series [...]
30 Jul
Support the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act
If you support the Safe Cosmetics Act, which would expand the FDA’s ability to regulate cosmetic ingredients and require companies to list ALL their ingredients, consider signing this pledge or donating to the EWG.
19 Jul
167 chemicals
The average woman exposes herself to 167 on her body every day… so begins a clever two and a half minute video about cosmetics and chemicals. Even though I try to be a minimalist, I definitely use the average 10-12 personal care and cosmetic products a day. Here’s my list: soap, shampoo, conditioner, face wash, [...]
22 Apr
My babies are California Babies
I’m a serious minimalist when it comes to hair and body products for my children. We use hardly anything to keep them clean, which is really impressive for those that know what a germaphobe I can be. Other than regular hand-washing with bar soap (no synthetic fragrances or SLS), my children get a bath every [...]
9 Apr
Exfoliation
I enjoy exfoliating my skin. But lately, this has become more difficult. For one, I find many ingredients in exfoliating products that I don’t want on my skin (parabens, synthetic fragrances, etc.) and two, many of the products are just so dang expensive! What’s a girl to do? Well, I’ve opted for super cheap, but [...]
11 Feb
New cloth diapers
After going through two kids, our cloth diapers are in pretty rough shape. So we are buying a new stash for baby #3. Shopping for cloth diapers in 2010 is so different than in 2005!! I love all the organic cotton options and many diapers are now one-size-fits-most. Unfortunately, prices have gone up too, but [...]
29 Jan
Lead in lipstick
ALL of the lipsticks the FDA tested in the summer of 2009 contained lead. 100%. But the FDA says there’s no reason to be concerned. The upper safety limit for lead in candy set by the FDA is 0.1 ppm. They found lead in lipstick at levels of 0.09 ppm to 3.06 ppm. Apparently because [...]
