Are You Ready to Live Toxic Free?

Here is a guest blog from our Women Wine, & Wellness - Lowry speaker for August, Ann Kaemingk. 

Last week, I spent my entire weekend talking to people about Living Toxic Free.  It was thrilling and eye-opening! I had a booth at the Denver VegFest.  A place for Vegans to come together, learn, share, and experience.  When I would start to ask these patrons about what they DO use at home for personal care and household cleaning products, I very quickly realized they were only focused on Cruelty Free – not harmful chemical free. This blew my mind.  How do these people not know about this issue???  And then I realized, I never knew about harmful chemical free products until I had an unfortunate circumstance and needed to eliminate these ingredients from every product in my life. You can DO better when you KNOW better. When I saw the eyes beginning to glaze over, I realized that this topic, my message, the mission I am on, can feel overwhelming and scary.  It doesn’t have to be.
Are you ready to Live Toxic Free?

1. Be an ingredient detective.  You don’t have to know all the ingredients of every single product.  Chances are, if you cannot pronounce it, it’s a synthetic ingredient, made by man, in a lab, and more often than not, contaminated with unknown yuck.  So be curious, turn your products around – don’t believe the marketing, because that’s all it is – marketing.  What really matters is what’s IN the product, not what the company says about their product.
2. Choose ONE  area to begin changing over.  Start with a product you use every day, or almost every day.  Do you shower almost every day?  Perhaps shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel would be a place to begin.  Do you swipe your pit with a stick each morning?  Maybe start with deodorant?  As you run out of hand soap, replace it with a toxic free version.  This will mean you might have to be more vigilant and plan – but slowly replacing as you run out is a great way to replace your products in about a year’s time.
3. Find a company that offers everything you need.  Make sure the company can be trusted 150%.  Who has time for reading labels?  Well, not really many people.  Find a toxic free living consultant (like ME!) to work with.  I have dedicated the last three and a half years to researching and learning about this topic.  I endorse PUREhaven Essentials.  Their products use the best of the best ingredients and they do not compromise on certain products here and there – many companies offer a good A but their B includes harmful ingredients.  Ain’t nobody got time for that!

There you have it.  Three easy steps to starting living a toxic free life.

Contact Ann at: 
www.NonToxicAnn.com | [email protected] | 310.804.2874