Instead of searching and perusing and exhausting yourself trying to find a TRULY green and natural product, why not just go straight to the best, and cut out all the headache of wadding knee deep in parabens, phthalates and petroleum based ingredients? Checking the EWG Skin Deep Database (CLICK HERE to visit!) is seriously THE BEST concentrated collection of beauty and self care products out there, making you shopping much more meaningful – and time efficient!ĮWG’s Skin Deep is an online safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products, launched in 2004 to help people find safer products, with fewer ingredients that are hazardous or that haven’t been thoroughly tested. When risky and unstudied chemicals are used in cosmetics, the stakes are high. People ingest those used on lips and hands and inhale sprays and powders. Many (actually most – if not ALL) cosmetics ingredients penetrate the skin.

We all know that some companies use ingredients that may cause cancer or that are associated with developmental problems.

So what’s an earthy mamma gal to do?! DON’T BUY ANYTHING ONLINE WITHOUT FIRST CHECKING THE EWG SKIN DEEP DATABASE!!! Spending hours in an outlet store browsing tiny fine print on a thousand bottles of product with two toddlers and a newborn in tow? HA!!! Seriously, I love my children more than my own breath. Those lovely, evil, adorable, disastrous, miraculous, wonderful and monstrous little angels of mine. But as I said, overall, it was working for me.īut then… kids happened. Of course, the downside was that I couldn’t always find what I was looking for, and if I found a brand I LOVED, tough luck, it would almost never show up again. I got the thrill of finding fun new products, and they were bargain prices to boot. This was working for me, for the most part.

(I told you guys, my mind is a weird place.) I felt like some primal hunter or wild warrior woman, hunting for skin sustenance, stalking my green living prey to nourish my hungry skin. I would spend countless hours picking up anything that said “natural” or “organic” and would slave over the ingredients, reaching each item and line to look out for the bad stuff. See, for the longest time I was relying on our local Grocery Outlet and Marshalls to “hunt” for the organic, clean, natural good stuff. I consider myself pretty well versed when it comes to natural living / crunchy momma / wanna-be hippy stuff.īut recently, finding good, genuine, natural, wholesome and healthy skin food has been a bit of a challenge.

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