Did you keep a garden this summer? Have too many tomatoes on your hands? My favorite part of this time of year is preparing foods from my garden, local farmers, or the surplus from my gardening friends and family. I can the leftover tomatoes to use during the winter. When you garden from your backyard, you know exactly what has gone into the food …
“Made in USA” Label Legally Used on Grassfed Beef From Overseas
Hey Hipsters! You like your grassfed meat, right? Well from now on we are going to pretend that "Made in the USA" sticker actually means what it says. You won't need to feel guilty about that rancher in California who got screwed because "Made in the USA" now means that meat can actually be from other countries with cheaper land. The global market …
12 Reasons to Avoid Plastic Utensils in the Kitchen
I bought a beautiful hand-carved wooden cooking spoon at our local farmer’s market when my son was a toddler. It is one of my favorite cooking utensils and we have used it ever since for baking, cooking and stealing tastes from the bowl. Today, I still have that wooden spoon but have banned all other plastic kitchen utensils from my kitchen because …
How to Keep Your Family Safe From Wildfire Smoke and Air Pollution
Wildfires happen in the summer when it's hot and dry and then in the fall when it's still dry and windy. Vast stretches of heat sweeping the country coupled with drought, lightening and human error provide the perfect breeding ground for seasonal wildfires. In 2017 alone, there were 71,000 wildfires that burned through 10 million acres of land, …
Study Shows Cleanliness Reduces Toxic Flame Retardant Exposure
It's estimated that Americans spend $340 BILLION every year on health care expenses and loss of productivity due to the effects of hormone-disrupting chemicals. Fire retardants was a major contributor to that study and adding up the amount of chronic disease it's linked to. They are known to be ubiquitous, meaning you come into contact with them …
5 Bedroom Plants That Will Help You Sleep
Need some help sleeping at night? Did you know that there are plants you can purchase for your home, particularly the bedroom, that assist in helping you sleep? Just like we covered 23 herbs that can help you medicinally AND natural ways to boost fertility, join us as we cover 5 bedroom plants that will help you sleep. Ever noticed how getting …
10 Homemade Natural Deodorant Recipes for DIYers
Nobody likes body odor or sweaty armpits. The problem is that we're trading healthy functioning underarms for sweat-free ones by using conventional antiperspirant with toxic ingredients that artificially stop the production of sweat. When applied to newly shaven skin, there's an uptick in the absorption of the most concerning ingredients in …
Tell Target to Drop Dangerous Receipt Chemicals to the Curb!
When was the last time you went to Target and only bought what you intended to buy? Target is a favorite store for millions of Americans who enter only intending to spend $30 and end up with over $250 worth of things by the time they get to the car. People love Target because it's clean, modernly designed, has a growing selection of safer products, …
How Toxic Are Your Tampons? Product Investigation Reveals Shocking Details
As women, feminine care is at the top of our list of concerns for decades of our lives, and tampons are the product we reach for most often. They're compact, convenient and useful for our most earnest hygenic need, answering the demands of our periods every single month. And as one of the most intimate products we use, tampons should be made of the …
8 Tips To Get Your Kitchen and Pantry Organized For Good!
As a busy parent, I know how frustrating it can be to walk into your kitchen and feel like it’s in complete disarray. As an area that your family is spending hours in each day, it’s fair to want (and expect) for it to be well organized, easy to navigate, and easy for everyone in the family to be able to keep up with. You've trusted Mamavation to …
10 Homemade Natural Lotion Recipes for DIYers
Lotion can be essential to soft, comfortable skin, but conventional products are full of toxic ingredients that can cause endocrine-disruption and all sorts of allergies. Some of the most hazardous ingredients are carcinogens and neurotoxic compounds. Yikes! We've already tackled the main ingredients to avoid in personal care products, but now …
Why Aren’t We Talking About the Potential Link Between Suicide & Hormone Disrupting Chemicals?
Today it was reported that Anthony Bourdain committed suicide and the first reaction is sadness as we lose one of the best storytellers of our generation. And right away the news is abuzz about things like gun control, the rise in opioids, depression and a lack of federal mental health programs for adult suicide prevention. While all these things …