Making a castile soap spray for general house cleaning couldnt be easier. Please remember to label your spray bottles, so you dont get them mixed up! Once you get fully established with homemade cleaners, youll have several spray bottle solutions in your cupboard.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Dreadlocks amend 20 months and 5 days! Read description, yo!
Hey! Here's been 20 month and 5 day today since i stop combing my hair to get free formed dreadlocks and its becoming kinda nice! Lots of people will ask... yes i wash my hair! Every 2 days or so with Doc. Bronner's liquid soad here's a link www.drbronner.com Some detail; Only time, no people messing with my hair like backcombing or twisting or anything. No wax or any product. And here's some of youtubers who inspired me; www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com And the insane one! www.youtube.com And for the music, thank you Steven Wilson for this beautiful solo! WMG can suck it; Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Are There Toxic Chemicals in Your "ORGANIC" Personal Care Products?
The Organic Consumers Association has stated that many so-called "organic" or "natural" product brands were actually made with toxic chemicals such as 1,4-dioxane, Olefin Sulfonate, and Amdiopropyl Betaine.
Recently, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against a number of personal care brands to force them to stop making misleading organic labeling claims. Companies sued by Dr. Bronner's include Estee Lauder, Ecocert, OASIS, Stella McCartney's CARE, Jasön, Avalon Organics, Nature's Gate, Kiss My Face, Ikove and others. Each of the companies being sued is using potentially dangerous chemicals that certainly don't qualify as natural or organic, according to Dr Bronner's.
The products include shampoo, body wash, liquid soap, skin cleansers and other personal care products. It seems that many of the companies in the "organic" products industry are flatly dishonest, and they're jumping on the organic bandwagon as a clever tactic to make a quick buck rather than formulating their products with genuinely honest organic ingredients that put consumer health first.
The major cleansing ingredient in Jason "Pure, Natural & Organic" liquid soaps, body washes and shampoos is Sodium Myreth Sulfate, a corrosive de-greaser which is cumulative in the body and is listed as hazardous on the data sheets that the US government puts out on chemicals.
The major cleansing ingredient in Avalon "Organics" soaps, bodywashes and shampoos,
Cocamidopropyl Betaine, contains conventional non-organic chemicals combined with the petrochemical Amdiopropyl Betaine. Nature's Gate "Organics" main cleansers are Disodium Laureth Sulfosuccinate and Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Kiss My Face "Obsessively Organic" cleansers main ingredients are Olefin Sulfonate (a pure petrochemical) and Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Juice "Organics", Giovanni "Organic Cosmetics", Head "Organics", Desert Essence "Organics", and Ikove "Organic" all use CocamdiopropylBetaine. Betaine is a common cleansing ingredient and no cleansers made from it can be certified organic due to its petrochemical compounds.
Ecocert is a French-based certifier that allows cleansing ingredients made from conventional and organic agriculture. It also includes, in the cleansing ingredients contained in products labeled as "Made with Organic ingredients", certain petrochemicals such as Amidopropyl Betaine. Ecocert certifies the Ikove brands' cleansing products to contain less than 50% organic content, noted in small text on the back of the product, where all cleansing ingredients are non-organic including Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Yet the product is labeled "Organic Amazonian Avocado Bath & Shower Gel".
Another instance is Stella McCartney's "100% Organic" CARE line certified by Ecocert that labels products as "100% Organic" that are not 100% Organic alongside ones that are; the labels of products that are not 100% organic simply insert the word "Active" before "Ingredients." In allowing such labeling, Ecocert ignores the requirements of its own certification standards. The primary organic content in most Ecocert certified products comes from "Flower Waters" in which up to 80% of the "organic" content consists merely of just regular tap water that Ecocert counts as "organic."
The new Organic and Sustainable Industry Standard ("OASIS")-a standard developed exclusively by certain members of the industry, primarily Estee Lauder, with no consumer input, will permit certification of products outright as "Organic" (rather than as "Made with Organic" ingredients) even if such products contain hydrogenated and sulfated cleansing ingredients such as Sodium Lauryl Sulfate made from conventional agricultural material grown with synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, and preserved with synthetic petrochemical preservatives such as Ethylhexylglycerin and Phenoxyethanol. The organic content is required to only be 85%, which in water and detergent-based personal care products, means organic water extracts and aloe vera will be all that is needed to convert conventional synthetic cleansing ingredients to "organic".
The OASIS standard is not only useless but deliberately misleading to organic consumers looking for a reliable indicator of true "organic" products. Organic consumers expect that cleansing ingredients in products labeled "Organic" be made from actual organic ingredients, not conventional farming methods or chemical preservatives. Surprisingly, companies represented on the OASIS board, such as Hain (Jason "Pure, Natural & Organic"; Avalon "Organics") and Cosway (Head "Organics",) produce liquid soap, bodywash and shampoo products with petrochemicals in their cleansers even though use of petrochemicals in this way is not permitted even under the very permissible OASIS standard these companies have themselves developed and endorsed.
Organic consumers have a right to expect that the personal care products they purchase with organic label claims contain cleansing ingredients made from organic material, not conventional or petrochemical material.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Everything New is Old Again
I grew up in the fifties. I can still smell the Sal Suds my mother used to use in the old ringer washer that we had. (Hey, it was a step up from washing the clothes in the zinc bathtub after boiling the water on the kerosene stove.) So, I was so happy when I found Sal Suds back in the 70's when I first started to be more conscious of what I was putting into the environment.
My mother, however, was not into Sal Suds in the 70's. She was into Tide with Bleach, Dawn Dishwashing Liquid and those little scrubbing bubbles that got the soap scum off the tub and looked so cute in commercials. Mom couldn't understand why I wanted to "go backwards" as she put it, by using old-fashioned cleaning products when there were much more effective "modern" products available.
In vain, I tried to explain to her that decades of pouring chemicals and toxins into the earth's water supply was having a horrible effect on our environment and our bodies. She didn't want to hear it. "If it was dangerous," she said, "They wouldn't let them sell it."
Well, Mom was wrong. It is dangerous and they did let them sell it, but I'm glad that I never bought into the whole "ring around the collar, bleaches whites white, get your dishes squeaky clean" wheeze. I've been using Sal Suds, biodegradable earth-friendly laundry soap, shampoo and dish soap since before my kids were born.
Somewhere along the way, a lot of other people joined in, until they're now some of the hottest selling products in the world. Mom is gone, but I wonder if she would have gotten onto the natural products bandwagon if she had lived to see it.
After all, the reason she embraced the whole "better living through chemistry" idea was because she wanted to be "modern" and keep up with the times, as she put it. Well, nowadays, keeping up with the times often means going back to the basics.
I'm not against using modern technology, but I'm not going to just blindly accept it as good. Also, some of the old ways were discarded for a reason. I don't think anyone wants to go back to using yellow lye soap for baths or laundry, and you won't find me using iodine for cuts either.
But if something works and doesn't harm the environment, humans or animals, why not use it? Actually, the Sal Suds works so well that I almost don't need anything else. I even use it as a spot remover on my rugs and clothes.
The ingredients in Dr. Bronner's Sal Suds are: Water, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Coco-Betaine, Lauryl Glucoside, Fir Needle Oil and Spruce Oil. While I'm not a fan of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS), Dr. Bronner's label explains that their version uses Coco-Betaine and Lauryl Glucoside to counter the irritation that SLS can produce. Who am I to doubt them, especially since I use it and it doesn't irritate my skin at all.
It's not for slathering on your body. It's for cleaning, laundry and removing stains. It works as well as more expensive, harsh chemical cleaners. I like the smell and I like the fact that it's not wrecking the planet. Now, that's modern.
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