In this episode, you will learn about how and why you want to kick toxins to the curb for all of the products in your life.

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Essential Oils: Gateway Drug to a Natural Lifestyle

We are allowing so many chemicals in our homes...

Here’s the thing, the average person applies 300 chemicals to their body, every single day. Depending on who you are, and what your habits are, 80 of those chemicals happen before breakfast. Most are from:

Soap

Body Products (deodorant/toothpaste)

Shampoo/Conditioner + Hair Styling Products

Makeup

If you are someone who puts on a full face of makeup each day, then you are well over 80 hazardous chemicals in the morning.

The biggest pollutants in our home overall tend to be fabric softener, dryer sheets, air fresheners (plug-ins and wax burners), and candles. Here is the deal, and I’m not trying to sound dramatic here, but the truth of the matter is that its poison. Using these products literally poisons you and your family every single day with chemical compounds that you can’t pronounce every single day. These toxins come in the form of the bright blue dish soap next to your kitchen sink, the spray cleaner you clean your counters with, processed food, and all the other things you hear me talk about.

But it’s regulated, right?

Health and safety data only exists for about 15% of the chemicals that are allowed via “regulation” in our products. Be it cosmetic or personal care/hygiene stuff, or cleaning products. So many of the 15% with data and many more of the rest of them are known to cause things like asthma, endocrine disruption, and a whole host of other issues.

Plant-based products are a better way.

Essential Oils are chemical free, they are cleanly distilled or cold pressed from pure plants and there isn’t anything extra in them. If you pick up a bottle of Lemon Essential Oil, it is just Lemon. If you pick up a bottle of Lavender or Peppermint, its just lavender or Peppermint.

My favorite thing about essential oils is that like a multi-use appliance there are millions of uses for essential oils. You can use them as the active ingredients to replace chemicals in cleaning supplies, in personal care products like toothpaste or deodorant, you put them in a diffuser and reap the benefits aromatically or aromatherapy benefits. You can use oil infused nutritional supplements, as there is really good data emerging that having the plant product of essential oil in the supplement helps the body to assimilate the micro-nutrients better.

Why essential oils?

If you don’t know my story already, part of my training, well my initial training after nursing school was Certified Clinical Master of Aromatherapy. I like to call it my gateway drug into this crunchy world of natural and holistic healing was through essential oils.

Over 10 years ago, I had a little journey you could call it, away from traditional western and allopathic medicine to the holistic and natural side as someone in private practice of functional nutrition and energy medicine. Now we use exclusively natural solutions for health and wellness, herbs, essential oils, crystals, micro-nutrient supplements.

Many people look at that journey and comment, “wow, traditional RN is a pretty far leap from the crunchy side.” And it is.