chemical awareness
Ready to take charge of your own health and be the gate keeper of your home?
These videos are great place to start & bring awareness
THE STINK
The truth about FRAGRANCE is finally coming out. Have you looked to see if products in your home have the vague word “fragrance” on the label? If they do then the product contains secret chemicals. Are they safe? If the manufacturer won’t disclose those secret chemicals to you then you really need to wonder what they’re afraid to tell you.
STINK documentary:
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ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS (HORMONES)
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HIDDEN DANGERS IN YOUR HOME:
WATCH HERE
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TOXIC BABY
One of the main reasons people join Young Living and start ditching and switching products out of their home is when they become a new mama.
Most of us are so un aware of how incredibly bad our homes can be for toxic pollution. Even when we try to buy products labeled with ‘green’, ‘natural’, ‘organic’. You will be shell shocked once you start doing the research.
So many products have the classic chemical hidden ingredient ‘fragrance’ on the label plus a bucket load of other toxic crap you probably can’t even pronounce.
Sound familiar to a lot of you?!
If you’re in here I’d say yes.
But once you know you know right? Knowledge is power and I want you to take some time out to watch this TedTalks video by Penelope Jagessar Chaffer. It could be the most valuable 17 minutes of yours and your families life.
Penelope is the director and producer of the documentary/surrealist film Toxic Baby. She works to bring to light the issue of environmental chemical pollution and its effect on babies and children
Toxic baby:
A little about Penelope Chaffer’s background:
‘In 2004, I became pregnant with my first child. Like many mothers to be, I invested many, many hours researching pregnancy and preparing for my baby. I had taken some steps to reduce toxic chemicals in my home and to what I was exposed, so I was shocked and dismayed to find out that the toxic chemical problem actually affected EVERY product and item I brought into my home, I put on and in my body, and that children were the most vulnerable. At a friend’s child’s first birthday party, I discovered that the most commonly used preservative in baby care products mimicked estrogen and had been found in breast cancer tumors. It was a breast cancer survivor with a young daughter who was sharing the information that she had and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
I went home and immediately jumped on the internet. Within seconds I found the research study and emailed the scientists who authored the study. Within a day, my life would irrevocably change. I found out that parabens were just the tip of the iceberg, and I kept saying to myself “I can’t believe I don’t know anything about this!! Why don’t I know anything about this?!” This question became Toxic Baby, which looks at how chemicals in the environment affect the health and development of babies and children and what we can do to address this situation, told through the lens of the mountain of research and studies that have been done.
It’s taken almost ten years to bring Toxic Baby to life. It’s been a long and hard journey to bring this science to life and were it not for the love, support, and encouragement of my female friends and relatives, I would not have gone the distance. This community of women coming together echoes the wonderful work of Women’s Voices for the Earth, whose incredible work allows us to harmonize our voices to produce great change and great advocacy for inner and outer environments.’