Photo by payalnic We've been talking a lot about personal care products, and making changes in the products we use, this month here at Live Renewed. I think this is one of the most important areas to make changes, along with green and natural cleaning, because of the way we can be exposed to hundreds of toxic chemicals in conventional personal care products on a daily basis. It's also relatively easy to start making changes to our personal care routines. It doesn't require a lot of … [Read more...]
How To Naturally Clean Your Face – The Oil Cleansing Method
Photo by Taras Kalapun Using oil to "wash" your face. Seems a little counter-intuitive, right? Especially if you already have oily skin. I have been blessed that I've always had fairly good skin, without many breakouts, but I did struggle with dry and tight skin that I constantly had to slather moisturizer on, especially in the winter time. However, my luck ran out when my typically normal skin started freaking out on me about a year ago. I tried switching to the Oil Cleansing Method … [Read more...]
Green Your Personal Care Products & Top 10 Ingredients to Avoid
Since we're talking all about personal care products this month, I thought it would be appropriate for us to talk about purging out our bathroom cabinets and getting rid of products that we either don't use or that we really shouldn't be using on our bodies. One of my friends commented to me after reading the personal care product post last week that she just felt like throwing everything out and starting over. Sounds good to me! Let's get started! If you haven't already checked out your … [Read more...]
Using Safe and Natural Personal Care Products
Would you eat your soap? How about your shampoo, your makeup, or your body lotion? Sometimes some of the products we use smell good enough to eat, but what's really lurking in the stuff that we use to wash our hair, our faces, our bodies, our hands, moisturize our skin, or tame our tresses? Basically, the personal care products we use have a similar effect on our bodies as the things that we eat. They are absorbed and enter into our bodies, and even our bloodstreams. The reality is that … [Read more...]
Setting Green Goals – My “Changes to Make” List
Photo by net_efekt Hopefully you've set some green goals or made a green resolution for this year. There are always changes we can make and steps we can take to move ourselves and our families toward a healthier, simpler and more natural lifestyle. For myself, I made a list of green changes that I want to make this year. It's kind of an ongoing list, some of these things I rolled over from my list last year, because I didn't get to them for one reason or another, and I know that I will add … [Read more...]
Baby Steps to Going Green in the Bathroom
Photo by Gabriel Rocha Today I'm over at Green...Your Way talking about steps you can take and changes you can make to go green in your bathroom. From the post: It’s the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, but making even small changes to your routine in this room can have a big impact on your journey toward going green. There are so many different opportunities to change products or change habits, making it easy to get started with just one small change and then move on to others after … [Read more...]
Simple Steps – Change Your Hand Soap
Photo by AnnieGreenSprings Welcome back to the Simple Steps Series. Last month we talked about reducing our water usage, and this month we'll take another easy step to go green in our bathrooms and our kitchens. This month's Simple Step is to Change Your Hand Soap! Do you have antibacterial soap in your kitchen and bathroom? Do you know what the main ingredient is in antibacterial soap and cleaning products? The answer is Triclosan, and we've talked about it here at Live Renewed … [Read more...]
My Top 30, now that I’m 30!
I love making lists, it makes me feel organized and on top of things, even if I'm not. Sometimes I feel like I'm making lists of lists I have to make. My friend Emily turned 30 a few weeks ago, and shared a list of things she wanted to accomplish by the time she's 35, and it inspired me to write a similar list. So, I'm sharing three Top 10 lists with you (for a total of Top 30) in honor of my birthday, to help you get to know me a little better, and so I can share my dreams and goals with you … [Read more...]
Using Cloth Wipes as Part of Your Cloth Diaper Routine
Photo by poopsiedoodles' Since we've already covered the basics of cloth diapers, and using cloth diapers day-to-day, I wanted to write a post specifically about using cloth wipes. Maybe you use cloth diapers, or would consider using cloth diapers, but have a hard time figuring out how cloth wipes would fit into your cloth diapering routine. Let me begin by encouraging you to just try. If you try it for a week or two, and decide you don't like it, you can always go back to using disposable … [Read more...]
Change Challenge – Kids & Other Personal Care Products
When I started the change challenge this month, I had several other ideas for posts about making changes in your personal care products. Some of them, like the Oil Cleansing Method, I just don't feel like I can write about right now, and some of them I am right there with you - still needing to make changes and find better products or alternatives to the current products that we use. But, there are a few other changes that I have already made that I wanted to pass along to you. First of all, I … [Read more...]
