Todo lo que utilizamos en nuestros cuerpos tiene el potencial de impactar nuestra salud, incluyendo nuestro champú y acondicionador. ¿Alguna vez ha considerado que puede haber químicos peligrosos de champú en su regadera? ¿Y serán seguros para usar los químicos que se encuentran en sus productos de higiene personal? Ha confiado en Mamavation para …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Simple Steps to Selecting Safe Personal Care Products
Are you looking for safe personal care products? There's a simple way to figure out which personal care products are safer inside your bathroom cabinet. And this trick is useful about 85% of the time. Join Leah Segedie of Mamavation and Amy Ziff, Executive Director and Founder of MADE SAFE, for a discussion about the ins and outs of personal care …
Who are the Illuminati of the Cosmetic Industry?
Just when you thought humanity was safe, another shocker has surfaced from the bowels of the chemical industry. Women's Voices from the Earth has published a review on an industry panel that creates a monumental loophole for the chemical industry you can drive a Mack truck through. This panel makes decisions regarding our health without the …
Protection From the Sun: 20 Safest Sunscreens for Your Family This Summer
In the summer, families take advantage of warm weather and longer days to hike, swim, travel and play outdoors. All of that extra time outside creates a risk for exposed skin to get sun damage. This issue is especially important to children who are so much more vulnerable to everyday risks. Sunscreen is important for everyday use in the summer and …
Best MLM Companies: Which Ones Should You Choose? Ingredient Investigation
[Update: Comments have been closed due to threats from MLM company representatives. Please see comment policy. For lifestyle & beauty brands we added some additional information. Note: Brands that did not disclose fragrance ingredients were given "bad" rankings regardless of claims if they were not verified by a 3rd party with certification. We …
Study: Fragrance Ingredients in Axe Body Spray is Connected With a Lack of Virility & Fertility
That Axe Body Spray you’re bathing in before a hot date is ruining your junk! A bunch of male scientists got together to look at some common ingredients in male shampoos, body sprays & colognes. What they found was shocking. In fact, after reading this post you may decide to chuck your Axe Body Spray in the trash where it belongs. We've …
Health and Beauty Benefits of The Dead Sea
Israel is a country of extremes and beauty. The second you touch down on the ground and walk off the plane, you can feel that you are someplace special. It's instantaneous and amazing – almost like a jolt of energy and intensity. One of my favorite places in Israel is also an extreme in terms of geography and location. The lowest place in the world …
Cosmetics could be making me crazy or fat? Oh hell no!
We live in a modern day and age where there is a plethora of information about cosmetics and how to keep skin supple, get a natural glow or pick The Perfect shade of red for any skin type without it smearing all over your brighter-whiter teeth--- yet, what is not being shared by the big brand companies who are developing the Next-Best-Thing that …
Deadly Scent: Toxic Perfume Chemicals
With Mother’s Day less than two months away and spring fashion season fully underway, a big push to sell fragrances will be on the rise. Unfortunately, perfumes, colognes and other fashion scents can be a problem for many people. A small squirt of even a high-end fragrance can cause severe and painful reactions in the form of headaches or sinus …