Youth in a bottle?

Is your luxurious bottle of skin cream your little splurge? A well known “natural” skin care company uses a synthetic form of snake venom to relax the muscles in the face so your skin doesn't wrinkle when making facial expressions. It’s the hottest thing in Hollywood. 

Check your bottle of youth to see if it contains a bunch of laboratory sounding ingredients. Many of these ingredients plant themselves in your brain, heart, lungs and fat tissue.

I challenge you to rethink the idea that beautiful youthful skin is achievable at the cost of spending a fortune on toxic cancer-causing ingredients. Click here to see what is in ours.

What do you splurge on?

what's in your skin care?

I have recently been bombarded with people saying "I'm using this natural product," knowing full well that it is far from natural because I have researched these things. Being the pushy salesperson isn't my style so often I will just let them believe that while cringing inside. Would you want to know?

Right now I am restraining myself from hopping on my soapbox to preach how complicated and toxic products are, and for what? So we can feel the rich and creamy "goodness" as we scoop a huge amount of product on our finger? So we can spend a ton of money on products filled with water and other cheap ingredients? I hate wasting money  on cheap things. Because in my book, less is always more and that applies to products that effect our body. Less is more because when you purchase products with healthy ingredients whose only job is to soothe, cleanse, and restore luster why would you need the other stuff? They are simply ingredients for the sole purpose of emulsifying, thickening, suspending, preserving so it can sit on a shelf for years. All those waxy, alcohol-based, synthetic ingredients need to go somewhere. Either they are absorbed into your bloodstream (you don't want that) or they need to be washed off. Hence our obsession with washing our face morning and night with harsh cleansers. We need these to wash all the crud off. I digress. 

O.k. I guess I didn't do the best to restrain myself! But really, we need to speak with our wallets and let these companies know that we know. We are on to them and their cheap ingredients. Cheap isn't always cheap in the long run because our health is affected by these ingredients. Think of how the medical industry is growing. It's enormous! We must be doing something wrong when it comes to what we put in and on our bodies when medical care is expanding at an amazing (not in a good way) rate. The more we "invest" in healthy choices the less we will need to partake of the massive medical facilities. Do you agree?

we love on our babies but what do we put on them?

When my babies were babies (seems like forever ago), I used the yummiest combination of Johnson's Baby Wash and Baby Magic to cleanse and moisturize them. Assuming someone was looking out for me in making sure products were safe, I blindly slathered the stuff on them. You can imagine my disgust once I began to learn about ingredients found in products.

It is possible to soothe (FDA won't allow certain "heal"ing words to be uttered) diaper rash without petroleum based ingredients also known as mineral oil, baby oil, etc. Those ingredients act like a raincoat on the skin so skin cannot breathe. It's the truth. Now you know. If little bums cannot breathe the skin cannot heal. Yet we flock to the store to purchase Desitin or most other bum rash ointments containing mineral oil. While they may work in some ways by not allowing moisture to get at the irritation, they are toxic, absorbing in the blood stream and planting in the heart, brain and liver. This is happening! BumButter is our diaper rash cream made with raw shea butter, sweet almond butter, lavender and grapefruit. That is it!

Also, putting harsh cleansers (many containing Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) or bubble bath on the gentle and precious skin of our little ones is not safe. Now, we all know there are some areas that need cleansing (who hasn't experienced diaper blowouts) but all other areas should be hydrated with a hard-working, bacteria-fighting cleanser. I make a product called NOURISHbaby which does such a thing. I had it tested in a lab and it consumed all the yeast and bacteria that was introduced to it. What this means is you will be gently providing protection from diaper rash by putting a breathable barrier between their bums and wetness but also killing the bacteria that can grow. It is your first line of defense for diaper rash, by prevention rather than prescription but also as a body moisturizer.
To learn more, you can visit our kids products here...bloom naturals kids products

The bottom line is make the best decisions you can, hug and kiss your kids as much as you can, and let go of the rest. You can't do it all just do your best.