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Eco-Friendly Non Toxic Home Products, Uncategorized

Organic Laundry Soap Fish & Ocean Water Safe

https://www.one.organic/puretemple/en/category/48/onegroup-brands

One of the worst polluters on the home front is doing laundry.  In your typical detergent, there are a plethora of chemicals, from optic whiteners to bleach, carcinogens and hormone disrupters, sulfates, parabens, Butyl Esthers, Phosphates, Zeolites, artificial colors, and fillers.  Not only do these chemicals affect our drinking water, create algae blooms which kill off fish but also affect you and your children’s health as they leach into your body through skin contact and breathing in the chemical fragrances.
As an ecopreneur, I’m a brand partner for 2 laundry liquids;
Platypus Laundry Liquid featured photo at the top of the page and Essante Organics Unscented Laundry Liquid.  I also want to talk about the Sanitizer Spray which uses stabilized oxygen!
Links to shop or do a deeper dive are in above in the product names.
Platypus Laundry Liquid – Platypus is made using organic soap nuts on my companies farm coop.  It is 100% biodegradable, even the packaging employs 85% less plastic.  While we wait for a non-scented version, this one has a very pleasant eucalyptus essential oil added which is not overpowering but makes the washer and the clothes have a nice fresh aroma.  This is super concentrated, you only need 2 tablespoons.  1 liter does 40 loads and there is a price break when you buy 3 or more.  The soap comes out looking like dark honey or tea but don’t be alarmed, it will not stain your clothes.  Free of all the usual bad chemicals and completely organic, 5% of all sales is gifted to establishing community-owned Organic Farm Share projects.  Market studies applause this product for being 23% better at cleaning clothes.
Essante Organics Unscented Laundry Liquid – Essante is in a plastic container which is recyclable. Very concentrated, only 2 tiny capfuls are needed so 16 oz will last you through 32 loads with typical soil levels. Non-scented and works well while being safe for our home, our clothes, and fish.  This product uses soy and coconut cleansing agents and is also suggested for furniture fabrics, carpets and pet areas.

Sanitizer Spray – The Essante Sanitizer Spray goes from laundry room to locker room, to countertops of your kitchen and even your makeup bag.  Non-scented, it harnesses the power of stabilized oxygen and kills 99%-100% of bacteria, fungi, germs, pathogens and viruses.  Great for cleaning and disinfecting cuts, abrasions, acne. I have one client who uses the spray, which comes in a purse/travel size, to cure her Tinea Versicolor.  She stated nothing but a very expensive prescription knocked it out prior!  I personally use it daily as our cats won’t stay off the countertops and it provides me great peace of mind that our counters are sanitary.

Changing your laundry soap is one easy way to detox your home, the air that you breathe,  and your clothing while making a huge impact on the environment and mother earth. ♥

SHOP ORGANIC PRODUCTS

Shop Jade Bloom

https://jadebloom.com/?acc=2483

As an ecopreneur, I’m an Affiliate for Jade Bloom.  

It’s very important to use clean oils both in cooking and what is applied on the body.  Synthetic fragrances, GMOs and plants who’ve been sprayed with pesticides (anything not certified organic or wildcrafted) can be very detrimental to your health. 

I love the high quality, pharmaceutical or Therapeutic grade oils, that they are certified organic and wild-crafted and offer a good value at purchase.

Some of my favorite products, other than the oils, is the bamboo toothbrush which is recyclable and cuts down the plastic in the landfill.  Its comfortable and feels good while brushing.  The toothpaste comes in numerous flavors and also contains hydroxyapatite which helps re-mineralize your teeth and something I had been going overseas to purchase another very expensive and less clean brand prior.

As a plant-based lifestyle consultant, I act as your concierge, looking for ways to help us all daily detox.  Think of me as your organic concierge!

Happy browsing and shopping!

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The Detox Myth

As we do a mindful practice, we help to ring out and cleanse our organs…to detox.

At the bottom of this article is a great informative little video. Check it out.  

I have had some fairly interesting conversations with regards to detoxing.  I absolutely mean no offense by this statement, however, I have found that sometimes the higher education in the field of Western Medicine a person has, the more they have to hurdle over to get to truth.  Those coming from a holistic, Asian, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic or an Energy worker mindset are typically on my same page.  The body is an exceptional and amazing machine.  I am always thankful for how long my body has carried me so far, for its strength, stamina and balance.  The body is always in a state of protecting us against illness, killing off rogue cancer cells, processing our meals and running those nutrients where they are needed and detoxifying the system.  I have been adamantly told that the body needs no help detoxing, it does so naturally.  These people are not clued into the abundance of chemicals in our world, or the fact each of us comes into this world with what is known as a body burden that only increases as we live unless we are very mindful.

People have asked me ‘Is this or that FDA approved’ as if the government cared one jot about them.  The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is NOT in place to protect you and me, it is in place to protect big business.  In fact, when this organization organized, it did so grandfather in 62,000 chemicals never testing any of them let alone testing how they operate together, how they react with each other, as they do in the wider world. 
We continue being told, as family members get cancer, that the industrial pollution, the agent orange that took my brother off this plane of existence, the chemicals in the skincare that caused cancer in my mother, the glyphosate in the cornfield that killed a camera operator filming Indian Runner in a matter of days and the spot treatment of RoundUp in your garden are all perfectly safe.  Whatever cool-aide they’re drinking, this is a lie.

The issue is that while yes, the body does indeed work to cleanse itself, it was never designed to handle this level of an onslaught.  When our body doesn’t know what to do with a substance or cannot process it right now, it stores that toxin in our fat cells to deal with later.  This is why people feel like they may have the flu, get headaches, feel overall achy when they go on a cleanse.  The body uses any time we are fasting, resting or taking in high nutrition and minerals to help rid itself of toxic substances such as heavy metals, plastics, nicotine. Your Body is Detoxing between 11Pm and 11am – This is the highest point the body is cleansing so provide water with lemon and cayenne pepper if you like. Parsley, Cilantro, Algaes, Chlorella, AFA algae, infrared sauna are great ways to assist in the cleansing processes. 3 weeks of detoxing can flush out 60% of our toxins and create a 1lb of weight per day loss.

The average person puts on 200 chemicals by 9am just in their morning routine.  Cleansing our body of chemicals in this day and age, requires a daily mindful approach that involves eating organically, eating as close to an 80% raw diet as possible, low or no cooking as anything cooked above 118 loses its vitamins and enzymes, reducing or preferably eliminating meat and dairy where toxins are stored in the animals fat, purifying all water, the air and buying toxin-free skincare, body care, supplements, laundry detergents and other home care products. 

95% of all supplements on the market are bad.  Talc is often added as a filler and is carcinogenic. They use lubricants to get the pills through the machines, flavoring, coloring agents which can fuel viruses, cause indigestion, contain toxins. Coating materials are beetle wings and petrochemicals.
At lunch with a client, they shared their beloved rose-scented facial spray turned out to have antifreeze in it.  This is a high-end brand!  I took my all organic Rose Hydrating spray out of my handbag and she enjoyed the refreshment and ordered a bottle. My neighbor has been using Mitchum deodorant when he suddenly realized it has aluminum in it. We were having tea this afternoon and I said, yes, that has been linked to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s.  He purchased a deodorant I sell right on the spot.  
Laundry soap is one area that is our most earth polluting on the home front.  I sell one that is 23% better than most soaps on the market, comes in an eco-friendly container and is price comparable, grown on the farm of the company I am Brand Partner for and is made entirely in-house.  
If you are interested in taking a look at the products I sell, check out the shop buttons at the top of my webpage.

As an ecopreneur, I help get this message out there along with products that really help mitigate the pollution in our bodies.  I coach on juicing, growing sprouts and on supplements and superfoods to help the body in minimizing its burden.  I promote potent and powerful skincare that is highly effective while being clean enough to eat.  If you are sitting there eating a fast food burger and feeling like you’re on overwhelm, take heart.  Do one thing at a time.  Nothing must be done in a day, but by doing something, by cleaning up your skincare and diet and gradually incorporating clean and green products you minimize the cruelty in animal testing, help save the planet and reduce pesticide use all while feeling far better.  

On a last note, folks will tell me they cannot afford to spend more on supplements or going organic with their food etc.  I am always perplexed at this because we have one body and one planet.  The answer is obvious.  I want to live an abundant and resilient life and my deepest desire is that you do also.  Life is too short to short change yourself.  I have a friend, obese, funny and loves McRibs.  I beg him to just cut down on the junk but he says he is still alive.  I say yeah, but for how long and what’s the quality really like?  I’m almost 60, look 40, I am not on any prescriptions, fully ambulatory and have not been to a doctor for anything in over 20 years.  To me, this is what normal is, it is not taking something for blood pressure, another thing for arthritis, another drug to manage age onset diabetes, something else for leaky gut etc.  Folks we have far more control over this stuff than we sometimes either realize or want to own. From the lady who spilled coffee in her lap at a McDonalds to folks blaming their dog rather than their own training methods, we have become a society that just wants to pass that buck.   I am asking that you own the responsibility you have of managing your health.  Food is fuel. Toxins are deadly.  It absolutely is not your doctors’ job to make you healthy, it is your job.  Your doctor should be a last resort.  To live a resilient life, you simply must make a daily promise to do something kind to yourself and put a focus on things, from yoga to food, that are truly nourishing to you and do those things.  Now, enjoy this video and if interested in taking a deeper dive, below that is a link to a free syllabus with Hippocrates Health Institute where I am an affiliate and took my training. ♥


https://youtu.be/BQGa9qvQZgg

https://op.hippocratesinst.org/moreinfo/static/34  
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Spiritual Work

This is my master bath.  The contractor gutted, elevated the ceiling and did new sheetrock, ran electrical etc.  The view from my zen soak tub shows me a gappy unfinished wall, gaps around the medicine cabinet, a crooked light fixture where the round hole which he created for a square base is mostly covered by a cheap plastic circle. The light fixture moves. Not in the photo are unfinished walls, one that curves and child-like tiling.  This passes as quality work at Wilder & Wilder construction.

The photo absolutely will NOT load and I also blame this on the car manufacturer.  They must be working some serious mojo so that my photos won’t post. 😉   But I bought an LS600HL and the dashboard leather peeled up so high it blocked vision out the front windshield. Lexus refused to resolve.  I finally just sold off the car for pennies on the dollar. I believe hell will freeze before I cease talking about my bad Lexsucks.  There were other issues too with the vehicle, it was just aging far too fast for what should have been a quality built machine with a 6 figure sticker price.  Not 50k miles in, the water pump failed, as did the brakes and suspension among other things.  This is my experience and I have read a few other sad Lexus stories too and while your Lexus may or may not be behaving itself, I come away forever off the brand due to how my situation was handled.  It seemed nobody cared to change the outcome and I felt I was driving the most beautiful POS ever created that was a driving time bomb of when I might be left stranded and owing thousands to fix again.

Regardless of your personal beliefs, we are spiritual beings who bring intention and spirit behind that into everything we do, all that we touch and also with what we say.  None of us are perfect so if this sounds scary, don’t worry.  This life is just a practice.  But our practice is in perfection, in giving and doing our best in the service of others with whatever it is that we do or create, even if what we do now is only temporary, you’re going on holiday or retiring next week or starting something new and more in line with your goals etc.

This is the view I see every day I soak in my tub to relax.  Namaste MF comes to mind.  And I have not found anybody that wants to finish this wall for me.  I have thought a lot about work and the spirituality of doing great work, of striving to create happiness with clients, of making it look easy in front of the customer which used to be my personal motto at Sprint as an Implementation Project Manager.  Sure, you are not going to please everybody.  Some folks come with their own tightly packed bag of luggage that you are never going to be enabled to sort through or resolve.  All we can ever do is try.  Try hard.  Looking at this wall I ask you what lasting impression did you leave your last customer with?  Or perhaps it was the checkout person or mailman.  We all brand ourselves by how we typically think, feel and act and by our
personal code of ethics.  Are you a half-finished and poorly done wall? Are you advertising yourself as a flagship when your output speaks otherwise? If so, there’s time and need to go and do better.

We like to think in terms of hierarchy, of rank in importance, such as BMW might rank higher than Subaru or CEO higher than Project Manager.  The reality is that the heart is not one iota more important than the foot, the lung no more important than the lymphatic system, the intestines no less important than the brain.  I found it absolutely fascinating to learn the immune system is a completely separate entity that dwells within our bodies.  We are all made up of bacteria and hopefully more good flora than bad (check your diet.)  But all of the body, while bits, parts and pieces, all work harmoniously together for the good of all the entire organism called human, fish, dog etc or problems ensue.

When we observe the body, we understand that all the lifeforms, all the people, the other animals, the plants, all these bits, parts, and pieces, make up the wonderful and diverse and dependent world we live in with nothing being really more important than another.

Imagine nobody wanted the janitor job.  Nobody took out the trash or recycle? How important would that job suddenly feel after a couple of weeks missed trash pickup? Or a month?  Many of us do something we are not 100% sold on.  This may be a stepping stone or foot inside a doorway, the only thing you felt you qualified for or just a temporary gig to earn some pay.  Whatever it is to you, your hand is bringing spirit into the practice.  Whether it is the practice of customer service, medicine, the practice of implementing APIs or circuits, the practice of acupuncture, you are adding something divine when it is done right.  Whenever you are simply going through the motions or filled with anything less than thankfulness and a desire to do your best in the role you are filling, you are adulterating your power and providing a product whose end results will be less than stellar.  And no matter what you do, however trivial you may think it is, somebody cares a whole heck of a lot about the end result.