Whenever I mention ylang ylang essential oil (pronouced ee-lang ee-lang), people usually have no idea what I’m talking about. If you know me, you probably even think it’s a word I made up. But this essential oil’s power ranges from its calming effect to being used in beauty products. Once you smell the unique scent…
Non Toxic Beauty
How to Pick a Safe Sunscreen
Here comes the sun, doo dun doo doo. Here comes the sun, and I say, it’s alright. Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter… Flashback to 2016, we’d been playing on the beach all day. Swimming in the ocean, building sandcastles, and enjoying our time before J was deployed. I made sure baby…
Switching to A Toxin Free Home: The Ingredients & Why
Here is part two of Switching to A Toxin Free Home! Last week we talked about the importance of mindset and making change. If you missed it, you can read about it here. Today let’s take a look at what is in your products and the harm they can cause. Keep in mind that this…
Homemade Sugar Scrub
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. – Sidney Sheldon One reason I really love essential oils is the fact that it makes DIYing easy and toxin free! I can reuse jars I already have, see the exact ingredients that go into what I’m making, and when you make something…
Natural Beauty Items (You May Have In Your Kitchen!)
Life isn’t always really glamorous and fabulous. It’s about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.-Zoe Foster Blake Would you believe me if I said you didn’t have to buy expensive beauty products to have healthy skin, hair, and nails? Beautiful glowing skin with less wrinkles, strong nails, and shiny flowing hair are all…
Why Cruelty Free Is Better For the Environment
“As long as humans continue to be the ruthless destroyed of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain will never reap joy or love.”– Pythagoras of Samos, ca. 530 BCE Why…
Easy and Nourishing Lip Balm Recipe
Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder. Do you deal with chapped lips during the winter or after a sunburn on your face? I know I have! Some of the ingredients in conventional lip balms aren’t helping heal your lips like the claim. Avoid…
Never Use These On Your Face!
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha Have you ever thought about the ingredients in the products you use everyday? Are you okay with using toxic chemicals? If you are okay with because it’s just once a…
5 Ingredients to Avoid in Skincare
“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” – Herophilus Our skin is the organ that tells us so much about what is going on with our bodies! When I talk to people about natural skincare products, the biggest reasons they…
What Everyone Should Know About Oral Care
“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” – Josh Billings Going toxin free with my oral care was hard. I had researched and read about all the things bad for me, but for some reason, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the minty, burning feeling…