Healthy Living Guide Detoxing Your Home

The Importance of Clean, Filtered Water Take a guess at the most toxic thing in your bathroom...? Did you guess it’s the water? If your water is from a municipal source, then you can be sure that it is treated with chlorine, but more than likely also chloramine, which...

Ok here’s the truth...D.I.Y.ing your personal care products takes time and can potentially require lots of ingredients, some of which you may not have just lying around. Is it more cost effective to make your own? I would say definitely YES, but….maybe not at first. I...

Your skin is your largest organ, and it’s the thinnest and most permeable. Assume that anything and everything you put on your skin will be absorbed into your bloodstream. Putting dangerous chemicals on your skin could actually be worse than eating them! Just think...

Your bedroom is an important room to detox since the time you spend there is meant to be a time for your body to rest and repair. And you probably spend more consecutive hours there than in any other room of the house (or you should be!). You shouldn’t be spending...

When you walk down the laundry isle at the store, do you have a reaction to all those per-fumy smells? Isn’t it crazy? I remember a time when I bought not only smelly detergents but chemical air fresheners. Now they smell so fake to me! Maybe our home doesn’t have a...

Cleaning Your Bathroom - DIY Non-Toxic Recipes I love making my own cleaners. Having 8 children around, I pay close attention to what their hands are touching. Not to mention the fact that they are often the ones doing a LOT of the cleaning around here while I manage...

Don’t want to make your own bathroom cleaners? No problem! Here’s what to avoid in commercially bought cleaners: Formaldehyde: Found in spray and wick deodorizers, is a suspected carcinogen.Butyl Cellosolve: Found in many all-purpose and window cleaners, may damage...

Your Guide to Natural Cosmetics (This isn't just for women! Men, read this, too! It's not just about make-up, but also personal care products that you could be using everyday!) Be sure to look at ingredients just like you do with your food! If you are gluten free then...

Why You Need to be Drinking Clean Water It would only make sense to begin our kitchen detox just as we did in the bathroom, with water (now that you know the dangers of showering and bathing in water treated with chlorine and chloramine). Of course drinking that water...

Eliminating Toxins in your Dishware Have you thought about the lead and cadmium that could be in the glaze of your dishware, leaching into your food? Why Should you Care? Lead accumulates in your bones where it displaces calcium. Lead is extremely toxic to humans and...

Microwaves oven are amazing for adding convenience to your food preparation, reheating, and defrosting. Most people, within the last two generations, probably grew up with a microwave in their home. But we have to wonder.... Does microwave radiation leak from the...

Let’s get this kitchen cleaned up! It’s time to throw out your toxic cleaners! Right along with the microwave! Don’t be tempted to use up that last bottle of unhealthy cleaner...just get rid of it! Natural cleaners work just as well! Did you know the average home has...

Cleaning Carpets and Rugs Carpet. It doesn’t cooperate with 8 children, 2 adults, and a cat. Or the occasional dinners on family movie nights. Or wet paint...but that’s another story. So until we make the switch to hardwoods throughout, I’ll be cleaning carpets....