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Living Without The Toxins
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items What actually left my home once I started reading labels. No greenwashing, no substitutes for real.
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Natural skincare
Toxic free cleaning
Natural clothing
Natural household
Natural skincare
What touches my face and hands, chosen the way I choose what goes in my mouth. Few ingredients, all of them recognizable.
The secret to fantastic skin!
DoSe 100% Pure Prickly Pear Seed Oil, 30ml
Twenty two plants, months of small batch extraction. One bottle replaces an entire shelf of serums that do less.
Active Botanical Serum® | Vintner's Daughter Moisturizing Face Oil
Cocoa, vanilla bean, jasmine, worked into skin like a ritual, not a step. Smells like something you'd want to eat and heal from at once.
The Youth Dew - May Lindstrom Skin
Made by a practitioner of Chinese medicine, formulated by season rather than by trend. This one built for the colder months.
Summer Facial Oil | de Mamiel Skincare
French clay and activated charcoal, cold processed by hand. Cleans without the tightness most soap leaves behind.
Black Clay Facial Soap
Blue tansy and grapeseed, nothing synthetic. Calms skin without a single ingredient you can't pronounce.
Review: Herbivore Lapis Facial Oil
Olive oil, organic shea butter, organic coconut oil, organic castor oil. Colored and scented only by what grew, nothing else. 👌
Organic Handmade Bar Soap| All Natural Cold Process Soap| Artisan Soap| Birthday Gift| Thank you Gift
Organic Botanical Clay Facial Mask - fantastic for tired and dull skin
Hand ground clay, plantain leaf, yarrow, matcha. Mixed fresh with water or hydrosol each time, so nothing sits in a jar losing its strength before it reaches skin.
Organic Botanical Clay Facial Mask - 100% Natural - Face - Spa Day - Powder - Moisturize, Soften, Hydrate, Heal, Fight Acne, Detox, Beauty
Toxic free cleaning
The cabinet I emptied and never refilled. Vinegar, soda, and plant soap do what a dozen bottles used to promise.
Wool instead of fabric softener. No synthetic fragrance sitting in every load of laundry.
Organic Wool Dryer Balls, Monster Design, Reusable, Eco-Friendly
Six ingredients: liquid castile soap, vegetable glycerin, salt, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, distilled water.
No dye, no synthetic fragrance, safe on HE washers. I stopped trusting laundry detergent the day I actually read what "fragrance" is lega...
Castile Laundry Soap: Handmade Liquid Detergent, Unscented Dye Free, Hypoallergenic, Sensitive Skin
Zero Waste Solid Dish Soap, Coconut and Castor Oil, with Brush and Ramekin
Four ingredients: coconut oil, castor oil, essential oil, citric acid for shine.
Comes with a porcelain ramekin and palm scrubber, so the whole setup replaces a plastic bot...
Solid Dish Soap Bar – Handmade, Natural, Non-Toxic • Virgin Olive Oil + Pistacia Terebinthus • Fragrance-Free • 5.5 oz • Eco-Friendly
Herb infused vinegar, mild soap, sea salt, essential oil.
One small concentrate bottle makes multiple full spray bottles, so what would be a shelf of plastic cleaners becomes one glass jar refilled with water as needed.
Bare Bear Farms Gentle All Purpose Cleaner Concentrate - green cleaning
Sourced and sewn personally by one woman in her Michigan studio!!
Textured cotton that holds around a paper towel roll the same way disposables do, so the switch feels familiar, not like starting over.
Organic Cotton Reusable Paper Towels: Zero Waste Paperless Cleaning Cloth
Organic Loofah Dish Sponge, Zero Waste
Grown, not manufactured.
Most kitchen sponges are polyurethane foam, a plastic that sheds microplastic with every scrub and never breaks down.
This one composts completely when it's finally spent.
Organic Loofah Dish Sponge | Zero Waste Kitchen Scrubber
Natural clothing
Fiber that breathes, ages honestly, and does not off gas against skin all day. Cotton, linen, wool. Nothing synthetic near my body or my daughter's.
No dye, no bleach, just cotton the way it grew. Skin against skin, nothing between them but fiber.
Undyed T-Shirt Long Sleeve 100% Organic Cotton
Natural household
Wood, cork, beeswax. What surrounds a home should not quietly poison the people living in it.
Local beeswax, small batch. Replaces plastic wrap without asking anything synthetic to touch food.
Beeswax Food Wraps – Reusable Eco-Friendly Wax Cloths for Plastic-Free Kitchen, Zero Waste Food Storage, Handmade 3-Pack
Cotton baked in beeswax until fully saturated, then hung to dry by hand. Reused for a year before it needs replacing.
Handmade Beeswax Food Wrap Set of 10: Eco-Friendly, 12x12, Local Beeswax
Most candles are paraffin, a petroleum byproduct that releases soot and the same class of compounds found in diesel exhaust when burned. This one is beeswax only, cotton wick, no dye. Burning releases negative ions that bind to airborne dust and alle...
Pure Beeswax Candle: Unscented, Natural Honey Aroma, Clean Burning & Non-Toxic
Research found plastic cutting boards shed between 14 and 71 million microplastic particles a year from ordinary chopping, ending up directly in food. This board is a single piece of walnut, no glue, no seams for bacteria or plastic fragments to hide...
Solid Walnut Wood Cutting Board, Non-Toxic No Glue Cutting Board, Handmade Wood Chopping Board, Optional Juice Groove, With or Without Feet
I stopped buying sheets with a thread count number on the package the year I read what synthetic fabric does to a body over eight hours of contact, every night, for years. This one is washed before it ever reaches you, so it's already soft the first ...
Linen Fitted Sheet - Linen Bed Sheet - Custom Linen Bedding - Queem, King Linen Sheet - Mattress Linen Cover - 1 Fitted Sheet
Wool regulates temperature and resists odor on its own, no chemical treatment required to keep it that way, which matters to me more since I stopped bringing anything treated into this house. Reversible, so both sides wear down evenly instead of one ...
Handmade Organic Wool Blanket – Natural Sheep Design, Eco-Friendly Throw (51x79 IN)
Olive oil, coconut oil, lye, water, organic essential oils. Nothing else.
Hand poured and hand cut in small batches, the same soap a homestead kitchen would have made a hundred years ago, before anyone thought to add foaming agents just to make a ba...
Etsy Listing Old Fashioned Castile Soap Bar
Most plastic dish brushes shed microplastics down the drain every time they're used.
This one is FSC certified beechwood with Tampico fiber bristles, cut from an agave plant. When the head wears out, you unclip it and replace just that piece, the h...
Wooden Dish Brush with Replaceable Head
Made by an artisan in the Appalachian Mountains, annealed in a digital kiln for durability.
Plastic straws leach chemicals when they meet hot liquid, glass never does, and this one outlives thousands of single use straws before it ever needs replaci...
Colored Glass Drinking Straws: Handmade, Reusable with Brush, Multiple Options
Made from wool off sheep that graze freely on the Carpathian plains, the same mountains my own family comes from.
Shaggy, textured, unmistakably handmade, not something a machine could replicate.
Handwoven Wool Lumbar Throw Pillow, Flokati Pillow Case, Shaggy Wool Cozy Pillow, Unique Decorative Pillow
Jute is fully biodegradable, hand surged edges keep it from curling or bunching. A rug that returns to the Earth when it's finally done, instead of sitting in a landfill for centuries the way synthetic pile does.
Handwoven Wool Jute Kilim Rug: Oriental Geometric Design
Wool woven by hand, backed in cotton with a hidden zipper so it lives easily on a sofa.
No two are identical, each one carries the maker's hand in it.
Handwoven Pillow Cover | pillow | wool decorative throw pillows, neutral pillow, Textured Pillow, Boho Pillow 18X18 20X20 22X22 24X24