Personal Hygiene products are often filled with parabens, phthalates, synthetic fragrance chemicals, and much more. It’s important to eliminate chemicals from the things we put in our body, but just as important to eliminate the chemicals we put on our bodies too. Our skin is our biggest organ, and it absorbs and reacts to nearly everything that it comes into contact with. Personal hygiene products are both big toxin offenders as well as easy products to make yourself or switch to non-toxic alternatives.
If you have a favorite product that is non-toxic or you have questions about products we have or haven’t listed, send us a note and let us know.
Alaffia Papaya and Neem Face Wash
We were first introduced to the Alaffia brand when someone gifted Nicki some Alaffia shampoo. After looking into the brand, it was clear that they were a company that wanted to do good (read more about that here), but the products were equally as good as well. It didn't take ...
Our Favorite Lip Balms
When you live in the upper Midwest, there are certain things that you have to accept at wintertime: snow, bone drying cold, shoveling, and road salt. I can't offer much for the pain of shoveling, nor can I help you with the road salt (many car washes...), but there are ...
Dr Bronners Organic Pump Soap
As with everything made by Dr. Bronner's, this pump soap is made with all natural and organic ingredients. The first ingredient is sugar (sucrose), but don't be alarmed. While sugar wrecks the inside of the body by causing insulin spikes, irritation, and acidifies the bloodstream, it is actually really good ...
Primal Pit Paste Natural Deodorant
Initially, we made our own deodorant paste, concocted from Baking Soda, Shea Butter, Coconut Oil, Beeswax, Arrowroot Powder, and Essential Oils. We jammed it into used deodorant tubes and went to town. I actually switched to chemical-free deodorant the week that we moved apartments in the middle of a hot ...
Acure Conditioner
As with any shampoo/conditioner combo, this is the yang to the Acure Shampoo's yin. Unlike conventional conditioners, Acure makes all of their conditioners with completely biodegradable ingredients. That may not mean much to you, but we appreciate that aspect, and it does help to know when you are putting that ...
Acure Shampoo
Acure's list of ingredients sometimes read like a graduate level Latin course, but it's just that they use the scientific name for each of the ingredients. You can rest assured that they only use 100 percent organic, ethically-sourced ingredients. And in an industry full of products made with parabens, SLS, ...
Dr. Bronner’s Castile Bar Soap
You can pretty much rely on anything in the Dr. Bronner's product lineup to be chemical free (if there are any exceptions, we have not found them yet). Just about any DIY-er is going to have a bottle or many of the liquid castile soap for making shampoos, soaps, detergents, ...
Nature’s Gate Toothpaste
Conventional toothpaste has everything from triclosan to fluoride (not as good for us as advertised) to sugar in it. Why do we need sugar in our toothpaste? We don't, it's added for...taste? It's widely accepted that sugar and sugary substances cause tooth decay. So, again, why does the product that's ...
