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You know what they say… “If you want something done right, you’ve gotta do it yourself!”
When I started making scratch organic meals, skincare & household products, I was just doing so for myself and my children. I wanted to lead a TRULY clean lifestyle, and TRULY clean & organic products are difficult to find!
Even some of the best products I found still had ingredients I was unsure about, contained some type of seed oil, and they were always very expensive. It was beyond difficult to find products that were organic, seed oil free, preservative free AND included all the ingredients I wanted. I figured I would just do it myself. Can’t be that hard, right? HA!
Truth is, it was hard, and it took some time to get my formulas right. The Arnica Salve especially was a HUGE challenge. I wanted something POTENT and CLEAN that included both ginger and turmeric, and couldn’t find that anywhere I looked. It was challenging, because working with Turmeric is like working with food dye. I still had a blast figuring it out, though!
Like everything good in life, ABSO emerged from a DREAM + HARD WORK. I am blessed to have been able to turn my passion into a business!
Why Organic?
Your skin is not simply a covering for your musculoskeletal system. Your skin is your largest and most ABSORBENT organ! Think about it. People take medications through skin patches, and those medications are delivered to the body just as efficiently as swallowing a pill.
As a former Medical Aesthetician, my personal standard for my skin is VERY HIGH. Like anyone else, I want to use products that make my skin beautiful…but my years in the advanced skincare industry taught me that the most expensive products do NOT replace a clean lifestyle.
Pharmaceutical grade skincare is TOXIC! Its not all the fault of the very large, powerful and wealthy corporations that produce it. It is also because American (FDA) standards for skincare safety are pathetic. There are only 11 ingredients banned from skincare products in America. 1300 ingredients are banned in Europe! YIKES.
EVERYTHING you use in your home (from cleaning products to candles to air freshening spray to toiletries) is absorbed by your skin, and those toxic ingredients will age you over time, both inside your body and outside!
Most people I know are aware of how dangerous it is to eat pesticides, and either buy their food locally or look for that “USDA Organic” label at the grocery store. Why not apply this same standard to your household and personal care products, if we know how absorbent skin is? Glyphosate (Round Up) is such a nasty chemical! It absolutely wreaks havoc on the human body.
Why Seed Oil Free?
Sunburn: Seed oils are the reason why we sunburn easily. Since dropping seed oils entirely, I have not used sunscreen at all and don’t plan to ever again! I also get REGULAR SUN ON MY FACE. Thats right! I worked in advanced skincare, and I LOVE the sun and DON’T USE SUNSCREEN! I’ll never put an SPF in my products. Any way you slice it, sunscreen is just toxic.
Lack of Safety Testing: Seed oils were never subjected to safety testing prior to market approval, leaving their potential toxicity largely unexamined. Its pretty unlikely that we are going to see good studies emerge on a products as lucrative as seed oils are to such enormous industries. Here’s hoping, though!
In Vitro and Animal Studies: Numerous studies have shown the toxic effects of seed oils and their byproducts on cells, animals, and humans.
Oxidation: Once seeds are collected, they are subjected to extremely high temperatures to oxidize their fatty acids, which results in harmful byproducts detrimental to human health.
Omega-6 Imbalance: Industrial seed oils are high in omega-6 fatty acids. This can lead to an overproduction of pro-inflammatory chemicals in the body, potentially contributing to chronic inflammatory diseases.
Toxic Byproducts: Repeated heating of industrial seed oils, such as in restaurant fryers, generates additional toxic byproducts like lipid peroxides, aldehydes, and free radicals.
I am BEYOND picky about my ingredients, and that does not stop with “Organic and seed oil free!” I also refuse to use products that contain any ingredients that I do not recognize and/or cannot easily pronounce.
This is why my products are also preservative free.
Check out my blog posts for further research. I will be digging in and providing studies, etc. more and more as evidence continues to emerge about seed oil safety, or rather, lack thereof.
I am all about backing up my smack, so if you would like any more info or have any specific questions, shoot me an e-mail! I love research, and I love to be challenged, too!
