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Earth Day is a great time to remind ourselves that we need to take of our earth if we want it to be inhabitable for future generations. What are you doing to help protect Mother Earth? Here are five things you can do to make a difference.
Use baking soda and vinegar for household cleaning or choose products that are made from safe, non-toxic ingredients and are biodegradable. Don’t fall for the “green” ads by companies promoting environmentally friendly packaging for their chemical-rich toxic products.
Read ingredient labels on all the food, personal care and household products you purchase for your family and your home. Not all products that say natural or organic on the label really meet true natural and organic standards.
Reuse or recycle your containers and packaging. Don’t throw away materials that can be put to another use. Take your own reusable bags when you shop.
When we each do our part, it will make a huge difference for the environment and the world our children, our children’s children and all future generations to come will live in.
More natural skin care tips for dry hands and feet
Coconut Oil - Pure, certified organic, unrefined, non-hydrogenated, unbleached, unfermented, undeodorized coconut oil is one of the healthiest oils to use, both internally and for natural skin care. It’s anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal.
Coconut oil does not have to be refrigerated. In fact, it’s a solid at room temperature and will start to melt around 76 degrees F.
To apply it to your hands, feet or other parts of your body, just scrape a small amount with a butter knife or spoon and let it melt in your hands, then rub it in where you want it. I find it leaves a little oily feel on my hands, so I generally use it on clean feet, morning and night and then put socks on.
Since the health of your skin is affected not only by what you put on your skin, but also what you put into your body, I also recommend using one to three tablespoons a day internally. You can melt it and use on your salad with a little lime juice or raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar and Celtic Sea Salt. It’s also the best oil to cook with and makes great stir-fry veggies. Some people just eat it by the tablespoon too!
Besides being good for your skin, unrefined coconut oil is good for your heart, helps improve thyroid function, revs up your metabolism, increases your energy and helps you to lose weight. Yes, it is a fat, and yes it does help you to lose weight.
Are your hands or feet dry? Does it seem that no matter how often you put on lotions or creams, they’re still dry?
Here are some natural skin care products that really work to help you eliminate stubborn dryness.
Rejuvenessence Facial Serum – Even though this organic, natural skin care product is intended for your facial area, it works really great on other parts of your body. I use it on the backs of my hands when they get that dry look that just won’t go away, even after using lotion.
Place just a drop or two on the back of your hands. Rub the backs of your hands together. Wait a minute or two and the oils are completely absorbed into your skin. Your skin looks and feels soft and smooth, without feeling greasy. Use at night before retiring.
Use your favorite lotion, or try one of these certified organic natural skin care products during the day:
If using Rejuvenessence once a day isn’t enough. Use it again in the morning. Once or twice a day will make a huge difference.
Sensatia Botanicals Anti-Wrinkle Therapy – like Rejuvenessence, this organic natural skin care product is intended for the face area, but I have found that it works wonders on dry hands as well. Use it the same as you would use the Rejuvenessence on your hands. The difference with the Sensatia products is that they come in four different varieties to suit your skin’s age, from 20+ to 50+.
If you don’t have a favorite cream or lotion for daytime use, try one of Sensatia Botanicals creams or butters:
Get a 5% discount on any of these Sensatia Botanicals natural skin care therapies when youuse thepromotion code: DYTLGin your shopping cart before you complete your check out.
Two more natural skin care tips for dry hands and feet coming next time…
It’s vitally important to use the purest organic and natural skin care products on your babies and children because they are more susceptible to harm from dangerous ingredients in their skin care products than adults.
“Through its review of 23 peer-reviewed studies of cancer incidence from the past 50 years, EPA has determined that infants up to age two are, on average, ten times more vulnerable to carcinogenic chemicals than adults, and for some cancer-causing agents are up to 65 times more vulnerable. The Agency also found that children from age two to 15 are three times more vulnerable to carcinogens than adults.”
In addition, “…the new risk assessment methods show that children accumulate up to 50 percent of their lifetime cancer risk by their second birthday.” Source: Environmental Working Group.
With the increasing incidence of childhood cancers, it’s very wise to make sure you’re doing everything possible to protect your young ones from unnecessary exposure to cancer-causing chemicals.
This month Miessence is making your shopping for the best certified organic and natural skin care for your babies and children easy. Just purchase one Mother and Baby Range Pack, you will get one complete pack FREE. A Pack includes one of each baby product Miessence offers.
To make sure you get your FREE pack, remember to enter the special babypromo code when you check out.
You can find descriptions for each of the products here.
Product Review – Victoria’s Secret Pink Body Natural, Organic Skin and Body Care Products
If you recall in post #46, I commented on the challenging time I was having obtaining the ingredients for Victoria’s Secret new Pink Body line of natural and organic skin and body care products. Well, I finally made it to the mall so I could actually read the ingredients list on the product labels. What I found is that the ingredients were not listed on the back of the product. They were on a tiny stick-on label attached to the bottom of the product in a print so tiny it was almost unreadable.
I did manage to write the ingredients for three products while the sales clerk kept walking by and asking me if I needed help.
These products are advertised as green, natural, organic and 100% vegan.
The ingredients lists are very long, so I’ll just list the ingredients for one product here. The most objectionable ingredients are in red with a number after them. The numbers at the bottom of the post explain why these ingredients are undesirable in natural and organic skin and body care products.
2. Possible source of cancer-causing contaminant 1,4-dioxane.
3. Manufacturers not required to disclose ingredients; potential source of hazardous chemicals.
4. Irritant, allergen, possible immunotoxin, neurotoxin.
5. Non-organic corn, soy, canola, cotton ingredients may be genetically engineered.
While this product contains some natural ingredients, it contains many ingredients that are prohibited under the Natural Products Association Natural Standard for Personal Care Products. In addition, it is advertised as natural and organic. However, none of the ingredients were identified as organic on the ingredients list.
Do you know how to tell if your natural skin care products contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients?
Technically, the question should be if they “potentially” contain GE ingredients. The reason is that in the U.S. GE ingredients are not required to be identified on the label of organic, natural or any skin care products. In fact, they’re not required to be identified on any label of any product, whether skin care, body care, cosmetics or food.
But there are ways to identify ingredients that may be potentially genetically engineered.
The most common GE crops grown are soy, cotton, canola, corn and Hawaiian papaya. If the products you use contain any ingredients that are derived from these items, they can possibly be genetically engineered.
Ingredients like soy oil, soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil, corn starch are just a few of the ingredients that you might find in a natural skin care product that could be derived from GE crops. However, not all ingredients from these crops are GE.
So how can you tell the difference?
Besides calling the manufacturer, the only real way to be sure that the ingredients in your natural and organic skin and body care products are NOT GE is to make certain that those ingredients are organic. The best organic and natural skin care products are those certified by the USDA Organic Program.
