Parabens: I have no clue what they are or how bad they are for you, but I can guess they are pretty nasty. Phenoxyethanol is its "healthy" replacement and are in a ton of natural beauty products. I found it in body, hair, and face products of all sorts of types and brands.
I'm getting smarter so instead of trusting that the health foods stores in my area would double check products for customers I sat down in the store and checked it out on my phone.
*sobs* why does healthy living have to be so difficult. I decided to slowly switch over my health and beauty products to all natural sources and at the moment I have so much to do I don't have time to research making my own. I do have a cool book on Kindle on green products you can make yourself, but I will have to wait.
After I am done switching over my beauty products, I'd like to choose healthier choices for the household products as well (i.e. cleaning, candles).
Seriously though, why do Marlene's and Whole Foods carry so many products filled with crap?
Here are some of the choices I have made so far:
It doesn't work for me as a styling product. Hair is too frizzy and fly away. Too bad though. Here is the ingredient list: mountain spring water, apples, strawberries, rose, lemons, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, boysenberries, oranges, cloves, ginger, pineapple, blackberries, celery, cherry bark, oak bark, orchid, marigold, hazel nut, pine needles, coconut, chamomile, jasmine, calendula, parsley, thyme, papaya, eucalyptus, passion flower, cinnamon, geranium, nutmeg. It's organic as well. Nice, huh?
Beautiful Curls Curl Activating Cream. I didn't like the ingredient list of several of Beautiful Curls products but this one seems ok. If you notice a no no ingredient please tell me. The ingredients are: comfrey extract, arnica extract, shea butter, aloe vera leaf gel, agave nectar, emulsifying wax, guar hydroxyproplytrimonium chloride, panthenol, coconut oil, raspberry and ylang ylang extracts, potassium sorbate, guar gum, xanthum gum, citric acid.
auromere Ayurvedic Herbal Toothpaste. Here is the ingredient list:
Fine Chalk (a gentle cleanser), Glycerine (from vegetable oil), Water, Herbal extract blend: [Peelu (Salvadora persica), Neem (Azadirachta indica), Indian Licorice root, Pomegranate rind, Commom Jujube, Rose Apple, Clove, Persian Walnut, Barleria prinoitis bark (Vajradanti), Indian Almond, Bedda nut, Asian Holly Oak, Prickly Ash, Zanthoxylum alatum, Sappan wood, Catechu, Bengal Madder, Acacia arabica bark (Babul), Sarsaparilla, Cinnamon, Medlar bark, Mayweed, Bishop's weed (flower extract)], Silica, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (from Indian coconut oil), Carageenan (from seaweed), Cellulose (plant) gum, Clove oil, Anethol, Geranium extract.
And since I have a client arriving in an hour and I'm still in my bathrobe I best wind this up quickly.
Chaco Canyon. The food was good (not great), the juice was wonderful. The raw fudge bar was decadent! It was like ganache with an almond crust. So yummy.
The food: I had the ginger sesame bowl. I didn't feel it was very gingery nor very sesamey. I got to try kelp noodles for the first time and even picked up a package at Whole Foods I liked them so much. However, the food arrived in the same amount of time it would have taken for me to make this dish. It tasted exactly like a hundred other dishes I have made for myself. Their menu online was not updated so the raw pizza was no longer on the menu.
When I think of eating in a restaraunt, I think of treating myself. Eating something that takes more prep time than what I would eat on a daily basis. And that wasn't the case.
Kind of a bummer, maybe it would be better with a different menu selection than what we had. BUT, if you are going, snag a raw fudge brownie for me please. The best I've ever had! Fo sho! Ciao Bellas!
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My lunch was yummy. Taco salad was really good!
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