[Kätzchen]

This is a non-profit research group (ewg.org) that spends its time looking into food and product safety issues and is a wonderful resource for finding out about everyday products people consume.


It’s only been the past few years that I definitely understand (much better) about what we eat or use in our environment and the direct impact on one’s health. For example, what we breathe (the air and contaminates in the air — which could be chemicals in body sprays, perfumes to good old fashioned air pollution, etc) or what touches our skin — the fabric of clothes to the materials in your mattress to personal body products used for bathing or smelling good — finds itself directly linked to risk index’s for developing cancer or impairing one’s health in other ways.

I’ve not really been one to be impressed by major brands built on name recognition and used to just favor wearing lesser known scents or products like Avon (omg, I had to give up my Avon addiction, lol), but now that I finally realize how important my lungs and skin are I basically only use organic products that are free from cancer causing pesticides and organic body oils instead of spray scents because propellants in spray scents are extremely toxic and damage ones lungs just like long term exposure to smoking cigarettes or long term exposure to chemicals in the air by data centers (etc, etc, etc).

I love it that using goats milk soap is environmental friendly and that using organic oil for any purpose ( scenting ourselves or the food we eat) is a better choice with lower risks vs higher risks associated with brand name recognition, type stuff.