How to Avoid Toxins In Your Makeup

Steps on how to avoid harmful toxins in your daily makeup routine! Did you know your makeup likely contains heavy metals like lead and mercury, hormone disruptors like phthalates and parabens and carcinogens hiding under words like “fragrance?” Learn all about how to identify toxins in your makeup and my favorite safer makeup brand!   […]

You need to try the Beautycounter Overnight Resurfacing Peel!

… AKA MAGIC SKINCARE POTION I’ve been bottling up my excitement for over a month about Beautycounter’s new at-home Overnight Resurfacing Peel! FIRST: Let’s clear up a few misconceptions about the name of this new magical spot and line-busting treatment! #1 It does NOT peel your skin. The word “peel” here means that it is […]

How to Avoid Heavy Metals in Your Makeup

  For this month’s safer skincare post, I’ll be chatting about the problems and pervasiveness of heavy metals in your makeup and how you can avoid them! Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of this post for my April Beautycounter gift!   WHAT ARE HEAVY METALS & WHY DO THEY MATTER? […]

Non-Toxic Sunscreen for Your Family

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Here’s my list of non-toxic sunscreen that works, and why you’ll want to toss that conventional Coppertone after reading this article.   For almost 3 decades, I slathered coconut-scented drugstore sunscreen all over my body for a good part of the year. When you grow up in Florida and spend as much time outside as […]

How to Detox Your Beauty Routine

We spend a lot of time and money making sure what goes IN our body is high quality and non-deleterious to our autoimmune conditions, energy levels, and sleep quality. What about what goes ON your skin? Skin is not an impermeable barrier protecting our insides from everything we come in contact with, especially the stuff […]