"Nature is a critical participant in our health and our wellbeing, and having a connection to it is crucial."

Kris sits down with Jasmina Aganovic from Boston-based wellness company Mother Dirt to talk about the skin biome and why it is important for our health to cultivate good bacteria, even on our skin. Whether we know it or not we all hold certain beliefs about cleanliness, and a lot of them involve using soap to become clean.

But what if you learned that you didn’t need to use soap to wash after all? And that some products contain ingredients that strip your good skin bacteria away? Jasmina breaks down our normal cleaning habits and routines and shows us how being more mindful of what we put on our skin may help improve our health.

Time Stamps

• Where our ideas of cleanliness come from [2:30]
• Should we be encouraging ourselves and our children to go outside and play in the dirt? [4:00]
• Components of soil bacteria that we need that we can’t get from food [6:30]
• How everyday facial products effect our topical microbiome [9:00]
• The notion of antibacterial products [10:00]
• What you can expect from using the Mother Dirt AO+ Mist [14:30]
• How to discern if your skin care products are healing or harming you [19:00]
• What makes the Mother Dirt AO+ Mist unique [23:00]
• Correlation between the gut microbiome and the skin microbiome [30:00]

Featured Guest: Jasmina Aganovic

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Related Links/Products Mentioned

• Mother Dirt AO+ Mist
• Think Dirty App
• EWG Database
• "My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment" New York Times

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