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Is Your Sunscreen Safe?
Argh! It’s very frustrating to me that corporations are allowed to put harmful chemicals into the products we put on and in our bodies. I’d like to think that the products I buy at Whole Foods are safe, but apparently that just isn’t true either.
While writing a lesson about eliminating toxins from our lives for Purposeful Conception, I found this link to a website that helps you evaluate the chemicals in sunscreen. It turns out that my Alba Botanica sunscreen has a rating of 5, which means that it should be used with “caution.” Oy vey.Apparently, here are some better options:
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Happy Birthday, Mama!
Today is my dear mom’s birthday. (Happy Birthday, Mom!)
I have to confess that I get her the exact same present for every single one of her birthdays: I make a photo calendar of the past year. (But it’s okay because you like it, right Mom?). I figure I get more creative and original for Christmas and Mother’s Day, so it’s nice to have a good ol’ standby for the third holiday.… Read MoreSnapfish always does a speedy and satisfactory job printing and mailing the calendar. I always search retailmenot for a coupon before I place my order. This year, I saved a ton (although I would have paid full price
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July: Reflection & Rejuvenation
Image courtesy the Nikki McClure calendar
So my first month of summer is officially finished. I have to confess that it doesn’t exactly feel like summer. It feels more like keep-working-full-time-but-work-at-home-instead-of-at-school. I’m suspecting that my goals for June have something to do with it:… Read More- Work on creating an e-course about purposeful conception: Um, yeah, this has been a lot of work. I always underestimate how long something is going to take me! Perhaps that’s why I commit to so many projects? At first it was super-exciting work because I was doing the graphic design and the technical stuff. It was very new and challenging. Then I started writing the content