Anyone else sick of being sick with a cold? Or having an entire sick household? Give me a hell yeah!. Around a month ago, my little Juliet came down with an awful cough which turned into a head cold and two weeks of pure hell. Blocked nose, awful heart-wrenching chesty cough and the inability to sleep with tears and more tears. From her (and at times me). Yep, pure hell. 🙄😷. Pre-baby, I had no idea what a nasal aspirator…
Ever asked yourself, what’s in my toothpaste? If you’re like me, for the longest time, I had no idea. I never paid attention to what I was using and just popped some on my toothbrush, and started brushing thinking about my day. Not realising that I was possibly ingesting a range of toxic substances including: ❗️Triclosan – used in many personal care items, which impedes the thyroid gland, is likely to be an endocrine disrupter, may cause reduced fertility, fetal…
How’s your armpit doing? When’s the last time you gave it some love? Odd questions I know, but important ones considering your armpit is home to hundreds of sweat glands that help control your body temperature and work to expel harmful toxins such as cancer cells through lymph nodes from your body through perspiration. There isn’t scientific evidence to back claims that blocking your lymph nodes causes cancer through using chemical-laden deodorants and sprays. I think we can guess why?…
Do you have girls who are teens or will be someday, or do you buy gifts for teen girls? Or just like a feel good entrepreneurial story? Keep reading. This post is a huge shout out to the up-and-coming Aussie teen-preneur, Izzi, from LuvUrSkin who recently appeared on Shark Tank Australia, promoting her natural skincare and cosmetic range for young girls. Izzi responded to her mum’s refusal to allow her to wear her adult products due to chemicals in them,…
Lavender – is it just for old people? Um, no. Lavender: is antiseptic is anti-inflammatory heals minor burns & bug bites can treat anxiety and depression soothes you to sleep aids restlessness This week, my little Juliet has had lots of teething angst. (And so has mum – not teething, just angst). Late nights, fevers, irritability – you name it. Not much can help our little babes get through teething aside from the standard paracetamol and cooling gum gels. It’s…
Are you a sugar addict? It’s hard not to be when sugar is added to so many of our food and drinks; often, we don’t even know it. It’s already naturally occurring within most of our daily fruit intake, so why add it? Because it makes everything taste better. And it’s addictive as it causes a dopamine release to the brain, so we want more and more. And so we buy more and more sugar-laden products keeping big business in…
Does your pantry look like this? Mine doesn’t yet, but it’s what I’ve been striving for. Years ago, during a gym assessment, my personal trainer made one statement which stuck in my mind, “If you want to come to the gym to get fit, you need to start from the inside out. At home, look in your pantry and dump anything that is in a packet that has ingredients you don’t recognise or can’t pronounce”. This has stuck with me,…
When I had a baby recently, I became even more conscious about what products I would use on my precious little one to get her started in life in the healthiest possibly way. There is a plethora of baby products on the market, especially for nappy creams; many of them chemically based – containing Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Linalyl Acetate to name a few. The MSDS’ (material safety data sheets) for these ingredients state to varying degrees that…
It’s time to go tropical! Coconut Oil – Boy, is it good for nearly everything! And it’s even better when you find it at Aldi (Australia) for $4.99 – and it tastes incredible. In our family, we use coconut oil in our cooking, smoothies, as a moisturiser, on scars, in our baby’s bath water, oil pulling** and we eat a teaspoon every night (including bubs – and she loves it!). Coconut oil contains short-term medium-chain saturated fatty acids (MCFAs), which…
