Cleaning

As most of you know I'm on a mission in life to simplify every process I can in order to spend more time on health both mental and physical.

In the process I'm striving to live a less wasteful life, and help our environment out.

In my readings and with the help of dear friends (Ashley and Ben) I have also come to understand the severity of the impact that plastic production and waste has.

I know that plastics in and of themselves can cause cancer, and distrupt the endocrine system. Just simply drinking out of plastic bottles, storing food in or even a plastic shower curtain can be very hazardous to your health.

I have been on a specific mission to eliminate plastics from my every day life.

I have been victorious yet again.

I only use organic body soaps and lotions. This is because of the harmful chemicals that seep into your skin and blood stream from regular mainstreamed produced lotions and soaps.

We have been using JASON body wash for quite some time now. When in Maui we switched over to a bar of home made goat soap. WHile goat soap is rather expensive I sought out another soap.

I found Dr. Bronners's bar soap and I must say it is excellent!

The great thing about it is that it is wrapped in PAPER not PLASTIC, there is no plastic bottle to throw away nor is their plastic wrap!

I have heard people say it makes a great shampoo so I will try that next.

I have ELIMINATED, facial soap bottles, and body soap bottles, next is shampoo and then hand soap bottles. I have a plan for this, its just a matter of how well it will work.

For hand soap replacement I plan to purchase a soap dish for each sink and resort to using simple bar soap. I think it is so waste full and costly to our environment and finances to use plastic pump hand soaps dispensers.

I have no doubt that over the next few months with a few changes in habit I will have eliminated all sources of plastics from my skin/hair care regime.

I'm trying to find a way to eliminate lotion bottles. I have switched over to Burt's Bees Apricot oil as a skin moisturizer in lieu of lotions. It works well, unfortunately sometimes it leaves my skin too greasy. The good thing is it comes in a GLASS bottle, unfortunately GLASS costs more to produce and ship which wastes other natural resources in the shipping/distribution process. Must find solution to this.

I CANNOT USE any regular lotions anymore because the chemicals in them make my skin FLARE UP. I was informed by the wonderful author of Healing and Living Whole - that after weaning off of regular lotions after a while my body would flare up in response to them, and it holds true.

My skin can no longer tolerate the harsh chemicals found in regular lotions and products because it has been treated so well for the past few months. It is AMAZING how our bodies speak to us when we are listening!

I'm on my way to living greener. I hope by June that I will only have 2 bars of soap in my life, Burt's bees tomato face wash and Dr. Bronners. If anyone has any idea of conditioners that are in bar or condensed form PLEASE let me know, this would help me a ton!