Many of the founders, the reason why they came to clean beauty was because of an illness. They either had cancer or an autoimmune disease, and they treated their disease not only by cleaning up their food and cleaning products, but also their beauty products. Anything they’re exposing themselves to.
We’re free-to-be over here at Clean Made. If you choose to shave or wax or neither or both, you do you: your body, your choice. But if your preferred flavor is au naturel, this post probably won’t interest you. All good.
However, if you like to keep it smooth as silk (the soy milk or the fabric, whatever), you might be interested in giving sugar waxing a whirl.
There’s not a lot of room to hide in a bottle of olive oil. Industry standards require that extra virgin olive oil must have an acidity below 0.8% and taste like fresh olives. Those kind of requirements don’t allow a lot of wiggle room for funky additives or chemicals. At Cobram Estate, they don’t allow themselves any wiggle room at all.
Americans have an unhealthy relationship with food. A large share of the burden falls squarely on the shoulders of corporations, but one could argue that we wouldn’t be so susceptible to such influences if we had a healthier, more stable food foundation to begin with.
Cūrata says, “sustainable luxury means choices you can live with, embodied in products you can’t live without.” Not only do we think that’s a cool slogan, we also totally agree with the sentiment.
French fries are one of life’s pleasures and we’re happy to indulge when we can.
Most natural deodorants are the pits.
To varying degrees, the consistency is off and sometimes you have to dig them out of little pots and the stuff gets under your fingernails and it’s gross. Some of the fragrances are a little weird; they stop working within minutes, hours, or weeks of use. Most leave a mightily unattractive, oily stain under the arms.
Since July is National Ice Cream Month, it only seems fitting that everyone should celebrate. So in addition to the dairy ice cream recipes we’ll be posting throughout the month, we have quite a few non-dairy nice cream recipes, too. Or, in this case, creamy, vegan freezer pops.
Every single one of Goddess Garden’s sunscreen lotions earns a score of 1 (the safest you can get), from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) — that means the sunscreens are ranked as the top choice for UVA protection, and they’ve been shown to provide a good balance of UVA protection in relation to SPF.
It almost sounds like a Hollywood movie: Two brothers from Abilene, Kansas. A juice-devoted, health-nut mom. A childhood spent working hard in the garden, growing organic fruits and vegetables, completely unaware that anyone does anything differently.
Bars are big business so by now you’ve probably tried most of the ones on the market (and probably a whole bunch that eventually fell by the wayside, too).
That’s kind of the way we felt about the bar brouhaha, too…until we met R.e.d.d.
We’ve been ready for summer since the end of last summer, but the one drawback is bugs. Mosquitos, no-see-ums, ticks, ants, fleas — depending where you are in the country, you’ll have different creepy-crawlies to contend with, but no matter where live, one thing is universal: Those store-bought, toxic bug repellents are scary, can be actively harmful (especially bug sprays that contain DEET) and often unnecessary, especially when you can mix something just as effective but more gentle to your body, with better ingredients and oils you probably already have at home. There are dozens of recipes for DIY essential oil bug repellents online, but this is the one we make and we love it.
We’re lucky to live during a time when we have so many food options. We can go into most grocery stores — anywhere in the country! — and cobble together enough ingredients to make an allergen-friendly feast. Speaking personally, we couldn’t even say that five years ago, outside of straight-up meat and veg.
We’ve been drinking bone broth for years. Although, truly, if you want to get technical about it, we’ve been eating it for decades, because we grew up on soups of all sorts, most of them divined — alchemical-style — out of a pot full of water, some vegetables, and a big pile of bones. Bone broths have sustained us through childhood sicknesses, broken hearts, and most recently, through some nasty bouts of autoimmune crises. In so many ways, bone broth is life-sustaining.
If it’s a vegetable, it’ll biodegrade in the trash, right? Wrong. Due to the anaerobic environment of the modern city dump, it takes an average of 20 years for a single head of lettuce to decompose. That means the salad you throw away now won’t return to the earth until 2038. Babies who are born today will have graduated college by then. There is a better way, even for apartment dwellers: Composting. It’s easier than you think, it won’t take any extra time out of your life, and the scraps you save from the trash will actually make a huge impact on the planet.
Beef jerky could be a perfect Paleo snack (and we’re big fans of Epic Bars), but many of the jerkies on the market have way too much sugar for our comfort (not to mention other no-no’s in the seasonings, like soy sauce and gluten-laced MSG).
Americans recycle about 66 million tons of garbage every year, but more of it is going into landfills than one might expect. This is because more of it goes to China than we realize, and China recently implemented a massive scale back (and, in some cases, an outright ban) on what they’ll accept.
Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere (south of the equator, it’s the shortest day). It is also known as midsummer, and has been traditionally marked with celebrations and festivals, down through centuries of humanity.
Speaker Sessions at our Clean Made LA 2018 events. Regenerative Agriculture and Our Planet. The Secret Life Of Bees And Their Role In Longevity. Women in Food Panel Hosted by The Chalkboard Mag. Healing Through Food with Sweet Laurel.
