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Chemicals – on our SKIN!!
My latest guest post is up at Surviving the Stores! Powerful enough to melt plastic, your mosquito repellent is a neurotoxin! Duke University Medical Center pharmacologist Mohamed Abou-Donia says that exposure to DEET causes neurons to die in several parts of your brain, including areas that control muscle movement, memory, concentration, and learning. Rats exposed to DEET in the lab had trouble walking! We all hate mosquito bites, and a bite, in some areas of the world, can lead to serious disease and even death. Thankfully, we have natural alternatives to DEET that are proven to be even more effective! Read more about this and other toxic chemicals hidden in our…
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Daily Deal – Gourmet Olive Oil & Balsamic Vinegar from The Artisanal Kitchen
The Artisanal Kitchen has a delicious-sounding deal today – $19 for Three Olives Olive Oil and Aceto Balsamico Di Modena ($41.98 value), hand-picked by a judge for the International Fancy Food Show. Shipping is included in this deal.
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Natural/Organic Coupon Round-Up (9/24)
When we (mostly) gave up eating processed foods, I thought my couponing days were over. As more companies listen to the consumers, US!, they’re putting out more and more coupons for all natural and organic products. Check out this list of all natural or organic printable coupons! Food * $1/1 Red’s All Natural Burrito * 50¢/1 Hormel Natural Choice Lunch Meat * 75¢/1 Truvia Natural Sweetener or Printable * $1/2 Jones Dairy Farm All Natural Sausages * $1/1 Wholly Guacomole, Salsa, or Queso * $1/1 Green Mountain Coffee (or $2/1 to use online) * 50¢/4 Dole All Natural Fruit * 75¢/1 Santa Cruz Organic 32 oz. Juice * $1/1 R. W. Knudsen Family Just…
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Diatomaceous Earth
Check out my latest guest post at Surviving the Stores! Simple Steps to a Healthier Home – Using Diatomaceous Earth Instead of Harsh Chemicals!
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Healing Cavities Naturally – Really?
** Update. I no longer recommend consuming Fermented Cod Liver Oil after this whistleblower report. RIP Ramiel Nagel, who died of cancer at only 38. This post is about teeth. We all have them (hopefully) and we generally spend as little time as possible thinking about them. I’ve been thinking about mine more lately because they’ve been hurting. Correction – they were hurting. For several months. I was dreading a return trip to the dentist because he didn’t really fix anything that was hurting last time. I just ended up with two mercury fillings. 🙁 (Me, sleep-deprived b/c of a newborn, and a dentist trip didn’t mix real…
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The Wonders of Soap Nuts
Can you believe that this berry cleaned my clothes AND my dishes??!! I am so excited to tell you about soap nuts!! I was sick of all the chemicals in even the ‘green’ laundry detergents and both intimidated and not sure of the ingredients in the typical homemade recipes. THEN I heard about soap nuts. And my laundry world has been forever changed. (Guess I’m feeling dramatic tonight.) Soap nuts are actually soap berries. They grow on trees in India, Nepal, and China. (I’ve heard you can grow them here but haven’t gotten that far into it yet). The harvesters pick them and husk them. According to Wikipedia, they have…
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Forming Values
We are constantly bombarded by media and culture. The average American woman is exposed to around 350 ads per day. I know I’ve seen quite a few just today through facebook, email, driving down the road, and on a few blogs! All of these ads are strategically designed to influence us – whether we like it or not. The influence continues through movies & tv shows, all of them telling us how to dress, what we should look like, who to be with, etc, etc. Values will be formed in our kids – Are they going to be our values or the culture’s? I recently…
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The Kombucha Experiment
One of Chris’ hobbies is trying out new beverages. So, I wasn’t a bit surprised when he picked out something called Kombucha from the drink case at Central Market. He has become a fan, and at $3+ a bottle, I wanted to see if I could make it at home. Sure enough! Cultures for Health offered a nice how-to-make-kombucha video and our experiment has been in process. I saved the last bottle he drank with a few ounces left on the bottom, and stuck it on top of our fridge for a few weeks to grow a culture. Today, the experiment continues. I’ve added sugar, and am currently steeping…
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The Town of Allopath
Fantastic video – well worth a few minutes.
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Truly Perfect Popcorn
We’ve had a hankering for popcorn these days. I almost bought a jar of kernels at Walmart this week, but, remembering that 80% of the corn in the US is genetically modified, I decided to price check at Central Market or Whole Foods for an organic version. We were at Central Market today and they had organic popcorn for $1.79/lb. Considering you only use 1/3c at a time, this is an inexpensive, healthy & delicious snack! Theseare the instructions we used for our perfect popcorn! We added some butter and sea salt for a bit more flavor, and it was huge hit!
