Guide to a Non-toxic Life
Hello Friend,
Welcome back to the blog and if you are new yay!! I’m so happy you are here and that you found my blog. I hope you are having a wonderful month!
Today I want to talk about Non-toxic living, you may think what the heck is that?? like drinking green juice every day??? well let me tell you is more than you think :)
If you have read my previous blog about “Why Young Living” you may be more familiar with the benefits of essential oils and all that but I’m sure you are still thinking about what does that has to do with non-toxic living.
In our lives we have been surrounded by-products, we use products every day for everything, like laundry soap to clean our clothes, toothpaste to brush our teeth, beauty products for our face, etc. What we don’t know is that most of these products have harmful ingredients that are not good for our health, when you check the labels you can read some of these: Formaldehyde, Phthalates, VOCs, Sodium lauryl Sulfate, Ethanolamine’s and the scariest one “Fragrance”: this one can hide the most toxic chemicals, a mix of hundreds of synthetic chemicals all these are known as “endocrine disruptors” if you go now and look that up your mind will be blown.
We are bombarded by the consuming industry all the time, everyone wants to make a sell and for us consumers to buy their products but we really need to take a step back and analyze what are we really bringing into our home. If you knew you were bathing, washing, using these harmful chemicals wouldn’t you want to switch and ditch for better alternatives?
It’s difficult to believe everything we read and see, it’s easier to ignore the fact that the big corporations, our governments don’t have the best interest in our health and it’s really sad but at the same time it’s good all this information is getting out to the light and we can start making better decisions for ourselves for our health and for our future.
Maybe you are very overwhelmed with all this information but it’s not so hard to start making few changes to better your lifestyle products and stop exposing yourself and love ones to harsh chemicals. Here’s a quick guide to better alternatives:
Ditch conventional house cleaning store products to Thieves household cleaner:
Before we switch to the Thieves cleaner I always got headaches cleaning the bathroom, my hands would hurt and I felt so horrible at first I didn’t pay to much attention to that, I thought it was just normal but when we start using the Thieves cleaner, I noticed a big difference and the headaches and hand pain went away also it cleans so well and smell so good! :D
With one capful of the Thieves cleaner, you can do so much, I use a spray glass bottle and add that capful then the rest water and clean all counters, mirrors, etc. There are recipes to make a wood cleaner, toilet scrub, you can even make DIY hand soap, the veggie cleaner it’s so amazing all the cleaner recipes you can make with just 1 bottle, have to say very cost-efficient and safe to use, yay!
Ditch normal Toothpaste to Thieves Toothpaste:
When we first switch to the toothpaste I have to admit it was a little weird, the toothpaste didn’t foam and I was like what’s with this toothpaste then I kept learning more and what makes normal toothpaste foam it’s an active ingredient “Fluoride” it is very harmful to our health, that blew my mind to think all the years I thought that was “normal” and now we know better and couldn’t be happier to have a better toothpaste to brush our teeth, we use the whitening toothpaste and we love it! you can also add a drop of orange essential oil which is a natural whitening.
Ditch toxic Laundry soap, dryer sheets, and fabric softener to thieves laundry soap and wool balls:
Our skin is the biggest organ in our body, have you wonder about the consequences of wearing all day clothes that were washed with toxic chemicals? a lot of people has eczema, other skin problems, allergies, rashes and they don’t understand why, well this could be a cause to it and it’s important to know what products are you using to clean your clothes, also the famous dryer sheets or fabric softener those are one of the most harmful products you are exposed to, we used to use those every day and now that we switch I realized how much I like our clothes free of those fragrance and artificial ingredients, the thieves laundry soap is also very concentrated so with less than a half of a cap of laundry soap your clothes will be so clean and for when your clothes are about to be dry you throw the wool balls in the dryer you can put a drop of essential oil of your preference so they also smell great! some suggestions, lavender, purification, lemongrass.
My mother-in-law was super skeptical about using the laundry soap, she was wondering if this natural cleaner could actually clean the clothes like the other ones, as soon as she tried it she was super impressed, she even told us that her washing machine was never been that clean :D
Ditch normal hand sanitizer to Thieves' hand purifier:
During Covid times “ dislike that word” haha, well we heard this like every 5 seconds now because we have to literally use it every time we do something, enter a store and don’t know about you but when the store people puts that disgusting hand sanitizer leaves our hands sticky and smells funky. When you purchase any hand sanitizer is also important to look at the ingredients, you want to avoid the ones that have “methanol” this type of alcohol can be very toxic when applied to your hands instead you can get your “Thieves Hand Purifier” that it’s infused with aloe vera, thieves and peppermint.
Kills 99.99% of germs and its plant based, what I love more about it is that leaves your hands super moisturized, I start using our hand purifier as a hand lotion now too lol! is non-sticky and just dreamy :D
Ditch hand soap to thieves hand soap:
If we could keep one phrase from this entire pandemic will be: “Wash your hands” I’m I right? if we counted how many times we’ve been washing our hands it will be a crazy crazy number of times. So with that said, what hand soap are you using to wash your hands? just like the hand sanitizer it’s also important to pay attention to what hand soap are we using! We love the Thieves hand soap because it’s smells like Christmas, leaves our hands moisturized and we know it’s safe to be using constantly, recently I found a recipe to do your own a DIY version, you can keep the bottle and keep making more non-toxic hand soap, I will be posting that recipe soon! or if you have Instagram you can check in my reels a little video I made with the steps.
Ok, so what’s the secret? take your journey slow, no one has the money to buy all these new products at once, so every time you finish one of the “normal” products you had you can switch to one of the “Thieves” line products if you are not a Young Living member I will leave a button in this blog post so you can join our community, the first step is to be a member, no this doesn’t mean to be a pushy seller person and that you have to buy thousand of dollars of products, you only get your starter kit with comes with 12 oils, 1 diffuser of your choice and depending in which country you are either can come with a hand purifier, thieves spray and 2 samples of the ningxia juice that is full with antioxidants. I see it as a Costco membership you go there and you purchase things you need but the magic of Young Living is that they deliver to your door, you have access to the best essential oils in the world and clean products that you don’t have to stress out about reading the labels and hope to not bring toxic products to your love ones.
Hope you enjoy this blog post and I will love to read in the comments what you would like to read next?….
Sincerly,
Diana O. aka Hibiscuswanderlust
