October 28, 2022 • 17 mins
Welcome to Focus Fridays. In this series, we cover harmful ingredients found in our everyday home and personal care products, with a deep dive into a new ingredient each Friday.
In today's episode, we cover parabens.
What are Parabens?
Where are they commonly found?
What are they also known as?
Why should we avoid them?
Don't miss next Tuesday, when we have a fantastic conversation with a special guest, Lucy Hutchings, a Registered Dietician. We discuss how environmental toxins and harmful ingredients in our everyday products can affect your health, even with optimal nutrition.
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Jaime (00:37):
Happy Friday, Eco Mama's here we are on our third
ingredients talk.
This is our sixth episode.
And if you haven't caught on tothe rhythm of which episode is
which yet the even numbers arewhen we do the deep dive into
the ingredients.
Where the odd numbers are when Iramble on about some crazy thing
(00:59):
that's going on in my life, or Iget some super smart Uber person
to come on with me and sharetheir stories.
So.
That is.
How, you know, what's going on.
So if it's even.
It's a deep dive intoingredients and it's usually a
shorter podcast.
Just me talking.
And then on Tuesdays, you willget a more formal, little bit
(01:24):
longer, either me telling astory and me having a
conversation with someone.
Yeah.
So that's the difference betweenthe two we're hitting this twice
a week right now, because Ithink it's important to have the
foundation of the ingredients,why I'm talking about what I'm
talking about.
So today's topic is on parabens.
Our deep dive into ingredientsis on parabens.
(01:45):
Parabens is spelled P a R a B EN S.
Now this is an ingredient thathas gotten a lot more, I guess
buzz, in the industry.
It's more commonly known andyou're going to see more labels
that say paraben-free.
(02:06):
But parabens are endocrinedisruptors in short.
They jumped into our system.
From products that we use andthey disrupt our hormones.
So I touched a little bit onhormone disruption in the past
two episodes on ingredients withfragrances and phthalates.
(02:27):
Parabens are a pretty, they're apretty hard hitter, they go
straight to the reproductivesystem.
They disrupt hormones in ourbodies.
They harm our fertility andreproductive organs, both men
and women.
They can affect birth outcomes.
They can also increase the riskof cancer.
(02:47):
One of the other minor sideeffects would be skin
irritation.
So what exactly are they.
Well, there are a group ofchemicals and they're used as
artificial preservatives.
They are found most commonly incosmetics and body care
products.
As a preservative, it allowsproducts to last longer.
(03:12):
If you've ever made, a loaf ofbread at home, whether in a
bread machine, or you needed thedough yourself and baked it in
the oven, it's only gonna last,a day or two.
Not just because it tastes sogood and everybody ate it.
But it will actually spoil,because there's no preservatives
in that bread.
Now, when it comes to cosmetics,makeup, body care products, it's
(03:34):
kind of a similar fashion.
Now it's going to last longerthan one or two days, but larger
companies, especially those thatare mass producing products,
they want their products to lastas long as possible.
They don't want to have to putan end date or a discard by date
or an expiration date of a weekor two, they want something
that's going to last a year ortwo.
(03:55):
I mean, they've, they'veinvested a lot of money and time
and energy into making theseproducts.
So they add artificialpreservatives to prolong the
shelf life of the products thatthey're producing.
These artificial preservatives,otherwise known as parabens, are
chemicals.
As I mentioned, they disrupthormones.
They harm fertility andreproductive organs.
(04:18):
Many studies have detectiveparavanes in nearly all your in
samples taken from adults in theU S so that means that really no
one is unscathed from it.
But.
We can make a difference movingforward.
We can try to minimize just withanything else that I've ever
discussed.
I don't know how to escape, thischemical warfare, so to speak it
(04:39):
comes to our personal care.
However, minimizing is the keyhere.
So minimizing our toxins,striving for a toxin free home.
Perfection is overrated.
I think that progress overperfection is the mindset we
need.
Products can be made withoutpreservatives.
They can be made very easilywithout using parabens.
(04:59):
Parabens are used in a widevariety of leave on and rinse
off products, especially thosewith a high water content such
as shampoos and conditioners.
Things that people use everysingle day.
There anti- microbial,properties are most effective
against fungi and gram-positivebacteria.
(05:19):
So this keeps it from spoilingor having a so fun guys.
Is a spore.
It is like mold.
So it keeps it from forming thatmold.
Moisturizers face and skincleaners, sunscreens deodorant,
shaving gels, toothpaste,makeup.
Many other products containparabens.
(05:40):
So what happens here is thatthey put these parabens into our
products, into our moisturizersare facing skin cleansers, our
sunscreens, for deodorants, ortoothpaste, makeup, shaving
gels.
Then we use those moisturizers.
We put them on our bodies.
We put the cleansers on ourfaces.
(06:01):
We put the sunscreen on ourbacks, the deodorants under our
arms, we use the shaving gel onour legs.
The toothpaste in our mouth.
And it absorbs into our body.
They're absorbed straightthrough our skin.
Our skin is our largest organ.
Can you hear me say that a lot,but I don't think it could ever
be said too much.
I mean, it's really, reallymatters.
(06:22):
And anything that's put on ourskin is just as good as putting
in our body because it's goingto hit our bloodstream faster
than anything you put in yourmouth.
Will exposure to parabens reallyharm you?
That's a really goodquestionthat a lot of people
ask.
In small doses, no.
I think that our bodies candefend it as long as we have a
strong immune system.
(06:43):
However, repeated exposurebuilds up in your body.
It can't discard all of thesechemicals all at one time.
So what happens is that thesemultiple products that we're
using every day.
We're having direct andcontinuous exposure.
It is continuing to build in us.
(07:04):
And the longer we're exposed toit, and the repeated lifetime
exposure we have, the morenegative side effects we're
going to have.
This is another ingredient thatI strive to keep away from my
children.
Because at some point in life,they're going to be exposed to
parabens.
However, if I can minimize theirexposure to parabens at a young
(07:26):
age when all of thedevelopmental things are
happening in their body and intheir mind.
Then they have a better chanceand adulthood not having this
negative effect on them.
Parabens, like phthalates, arevery harmful to children because
children are susceptible whenour babies are in the womb, when
they're developing physically,even during adolescents, when
(07:48):
their hormones are developingand puberty.
They have done studies onadolescent girls when they start
wearing makeup.
And those adolescent girls thatwere makeup every single day had
20 times the levels of parabensin their system than those that
never wore makeup or rarely woreit.
(08:09):
The use of face and body,lotions have also skyrocketed
the paraben levels in the sameage range of children.
The point I have in this is thatif, your teens or tweens are
going to be using personal careproducts, I would love, love,
(08:34):
love if you started looking attheir products and the
ingredients of them.
If you're not ready to make thechanges for yourself.
So be it! But see if you canhelp your children have a better
chance of having a long, healthylife.
We did a podcast last Tuesday,you can refer back to, that was
episode three.
(08:55):
I did an interview with my twodaughters and one of their
girlfriends.
We talked about the tween yearsand going into makeup and why
it's not only important to haveclean ingredients, but I got the
perspective of the girls and itwas super sweet and it was so
fun.
My one daughter, I think shecould have her own podcast.
She just like ran away with ashow.
And it's entertaining.
(09:15):
So if you haven't listened toit, I suggest you go back and
listen to episode three, but itjust talks about wearing makeup
and the importance of knowingwhat you're putting on your skin
and washing it off every night.
And why kids want to be in themakeup.
If you have a tween or a teen,please check their ingredients,
help them understand that theproducts that they're using, if
(09:39):
they're going to be usingproducts at this age, which all
girls do for sure.
Some boys.
Even my son, my son wanted hairgel before my girls did.
It's hilarious.
And I told him that I only haveto go to the store and mommy
needs to look at the ingredientsand I will try and find you a
cleaner brand.
He asked and he asked and heasked, he asked and I kept
putting it off andprocrastinating hoping he would
just forget.
(10:00):
Then another two weeks went byand I still hadn't gotten him
anything.
I wanted to get online to find agood hair product for him.
And he just got to the pointwhere he's like, mom, I don't
think you're ever going to doit.
Well, of course that crushed mylittle mama heart.
So I'm like, all right, let'sget in the car.
He's like what?
And I'm like, yeah, let's go.
And we went up to Whole Foods.
Not everything at Whole Foodsare things that I would approve,
(10:20):
but I do check the ingredientson the back of them.
And I did find a hair gel that,you know, it wasn't as bad as
the others.
And it's, it's something that Ifelt safe for him using.
And sure enough, he used itevery day for like three months.
It was awesome.
So I was glad that I didn'twaste money on that product.
Anyway, girls and boys are goingto be using them.
(10:41):
There's different types ofparabens.
Also known as' is important topay attention to these
ingredients because so many arebeing referenced as initials and
you don't know what they mean.
There's not as many initials inparabens as there were in
phthalates.
With parabens, the root of theword it's going to be at the
very end of it.
(11:02):
Some examples is ISO butyl,butyl, ISO propyl, and
propylaparabon.
Anything with the word parabenon the is considered like a
long-chain paraben.
If you see the word paraben, myadvice is just to put it back on
the shelf, keep walking.
In the beginning, when I talkedabout the endocrine disruption
and cancer, the types of cancersthat they have found related to
(11:28):
parabens or in particularlybreast cancer in women.
Because an endocrine disruptorcan be mimicked like an estrogen
and women's bodies.
Parabens can hurt more than justpeople.
These are artificialpreservatives created for
products.
Well, what happens to productsafter we use them?
Did they just disappear intothin air?
(11:50):
No.
Unused products are going to hitlandfills or they're going to be
burned.
They're going to be discardedsomehow.
Right?
Now if the products are not madeto be biodegradable or the
packaging is not verydegradable, it's going to stick
around a long time.
It's going to take a while forthese things to break down.
In addition, let's say you douse these products, only, the
(12:13):
container ended up in thelandfill.
The lotion that you put on, itobsorbed into your skin.
Now there was some residualstill there.
So when you showered that nightbefore bed, It went down the
drain.
Eventually it makes its way backto our streams and our oceans.
It's just the cycle of water andhow it's recycled.
So they have found that butyl-Parabon can kill coral.
(12:37):
The dangers in parabens havebecome more and more evident
over the years.
Thankfully, you have moreoptions when it comes to looking
for paraben-free.
However, I would not go so faras to say that the majority of
products are paraben-free.
Important thing here.
When I say, know youringredients.
If ingredients are not listed ona product.
(12:58):
It's a red flag.
And it goes back to the firstingredient we discussed on
episode two fragrances.
If it has fragrance on there,chances are there's a paraben in
the product it's just hiddenunder the label.
If fragrance is listed anywhereon the list of ingredients, it
is considered a proprietaryblend and the manufacturer is
(13:20):
legally allowed to hide otheringredients inside.
Parabens can still be in yourproduct, even if you don't see
the word paraben, because it canbe disguised inside the
ingredients that make up thefragrance.
So just be mindful.
And if it says fragrance,that's, that's the biggest,
that's like the second red flag.
If there's.
No ingredients listed first redflag.
(13:42):
And then if there is fragrancein the ingredients, second red
flag, because that is hidingsomething from you.
I believe in being fullytransparent and I only use
brands that are fullytransparent with me.
I drove to a farmer's market toan event to find local cottage
market artisans.
I met this woman, Cindy, withHerb Garden Soaps.
(14:04):
We started talking.
She was describing to me all thechanges that she had made since
she started her business.
One of the products that she hasin addition to the soaps that
she makes is a facial mask.
And it's in a little glass jarand it's a powder.
And she said,'you know, I, Iwent back and forth on how to
(14:27):
provide my products.
And I learned that in order tomake this face mask last longer,
I had to have preservatives toit, if I added water.
But, if I just sell, the powderand I let my customers mix it
(14:47):
with water themselves, not onlydoes it prolong the shelf life,
I don't have to add anyartificial preservatives, such
as parabens to make it lastlonger.
So I do not add water to myproducts.
I just provide the powder onthese.' I loved learning that
from her.
I'm grateful that there's peopleout there, that are not only
(15:10):
paying attention to this, butthey're making products using
this knowledge that they'vegained on what is safer for us.
I'm so grateful for all of theseindividual small businesses that
are creating things that aresafe for us safe for my family.
It's not the end of the world tohave to make your own products.
But it is exhausting.
It's time consuming.
(15:31):
And frankly, I've got otherthings that other do with my
day.
So I'm glad that there's someplace that I can go and find
these things that I enjoy usingeveryday.
That covers all I have today foryou eco mamas with parabens.
I want to make sure you markyour calendar for next Tuesday.
Next Tuesday's podcast is reallyamazing.
(15:54):
I know because I've alreadyrecorded it.
It's with Lucy Hutchings, who isa registered dietician.
We have this amazingconversation about the
importance of not only payingattention to the ingredients in
our products, but also theingredients in our food.
And she talks about how it'simportant, to watch out for your
(16:15):
environmental toxins, becauseeven if you're optimizing your
nutritional value and the foodthat you eat, you can still be
causing harm to yourself.
Environmental toxins canactually block your body's
ability to absorb the nutrients.
If your diet is perfect and yourproducts are filled with toxins,
(16:37):
you might still having theinability to lose weight or to
have energy and feel better.
They go hand and hand nutritionand ingredients.
Both matter when it comes tooptimizing health.
So join us on Tuesday, be sureto follow so that this episode
will be downloaded and ready foryou when you're ready to listen
to it.
(16:57):
Thanks again for joining metoday, and I love that you were
here and I look forward toconnect again next week.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Happy Friday, Eco Mama's here we are on our third
ingredients talk.
This is our sixth episode.
And if you haven't caught on tothe rhythm of which episode is
which yet the even numbers arewhen we do the deep dive into
the ingredients.
Where the odd numbers are when Iramble on about some crazy thing
(00:59):
that's going on in my life, or Iget some super smart Uber person
to come on with me and sharetheir stories.
So.
That is.
How, you know, what's going on.
So if it's even.
It's a deep dive intoingredients and it's usually a
shorter podcast.
Just me talking.
And then on Tuesdays, you willget a more formal, little bit
(01:24):
longer, either me telling astory and me having a
conversation with someone.
Yeah.
So that's the difference betweenthe two we're hitting this twice
a week right now, because Ithink it's important to have the
foundation of the ingredients,why I'm talking about what I'm
talking about.
So today's topic is on parabens.
Our deep dive into ingredientsis on parabens.
(01:45):
Parabens is spelled P a R a B EN S.
Now this is an ingredient thathas gotten a lot more, I guess
buzz, in the industry.
It's more commonly known andyou're going to see more labels
that say paraben-free.
(02:06):
But parabens are endocrinedisruptors in short.
They jumped into our system.
From products that we use andthey disrupt our hormones.
So I touched a little bit onhormone disruption in the past
two episodes on ingredients withfragrances and phthalates.
(02:27):
Parabens are a pretty, they're apretty hard hitter, they go
straight to the reproductivesystem.
They disrupt hormones in ourbodies.
They harm our fertility andreproductive organs, both men
and women.
They can affect birth outcomes.
They can also increase the riskof cancer.
(02:47):
One of the other minor sideeffects would be skin
irritation.
So what exactly are they.
Well, there are a group ofchemicals and they're used as
artificial preservatives.
They are found most commonly incosmetics and body care
products.
As a preservative, it allowsproducts to last longer.
(03:12):
If you've ever made, a loaf ofbread at home, whether in a
bread machine, or you needed thedough yourself and baked it in
the oven, it's only gonna last,a day or two.
Not just because it tastes sogood and everybody ate it.
But it will actually spoil,because there's no preservatives
in that bread.
Now, when it comes to cosmetics,makeup, body care products, it's
(03:34):
kind of a similar fashion.
Now it's going to last longerthan one or two days, but larger
companies, especially those thatare mass producing products,
they want their products to lastas long as possible.
They don't want to have to putan end date or a discard by date
or an expiration date of a weekor two, they want something
that's going to last a year ortwo.
(03:55):
I mean, they've, they'veinvested a lot of money and time
and energy into making theseproducts.
So they add artificialpreservatives to prolong the
shelf life of the products thatthey're producing.
These artificial preservatives,otherwise known as parabens, are
chemicals.
As I mentioned, they disrupthormones.
They harm fertility andreproductive organs.
(04:18):
Many studies have detectiveparavanes in nearly all your in
samples taken from adults in theU S so that means that really no
one is unscathed from it.
But.
We can make a difference movingforward.
We can try to minimize just withanything else that I've ever
discussed.
I don't know how to escape, thischemical warfare, so to speak it
(04:39):
comes to our personal care.
However, minimizing is the keyhere.
So minimizing our toxins,striving for a toxin free home.
Perfection is overrated.
I think that progress overperfection is the mindset we
need.
Products can be made withoutpreservatives.
They can be made very easilywithout using parabens.
(04:59):
Parabens are used in a widevariety of leave on and rinse
off products, especially thosewith a high water content such
as shampoos and conditioners.
Things that people use everysingle day.
There anti- microbial,properties are most effective
against fungi and gram-positivebacteria.
(05:19):
So this keeps it from spoilingor having a so fun guys.
Is a spore.
It is like mold.
So it keeps it from forming thatmold.
Moisturizers face and skincleaners, sunscreens deodorant,
shaving gels, toothpaste,makeup.
Many other products containparabens.
(05:40):
So what happens here is thatthey put these parabens into our
products, into our moisturizersare facing skin cleansers, our
sunscreens, for deodorants, ortoothpaste, makeup, shaving
gels.
Then we use those moisturizers.
We put them on our bodies.
We put the cleansers on ourfaces.
(06:01):
We put the sunscreen on ourbacks, the deodorants under our
arms, we use the shaving gel onour legs.
The toothpaste in our mouth.
And it absorbs into our body.
They're absorbed straightthrough our skin.
Our skin is our largest organ.
Can you hear me say that a lot,but I don't think it could ever
be said too much.
I mean, it's really, reallymatters.
(06:22):
And anything that's put on ourskin is just as good as putting
in our body because it's goingto hit our bloodstream faster
than anything you put in yourmouth.
Will exposure to parabens reallyharm you?
That's a really goodquestionthat a lot of people
ask.
In small doses, no.
I think that our bodies candefend it as long as we have a
strong immune system.
(06:43):
However, repeated exposurebuilds up in your body.
It can't discard all of thesechemicals all at one time.
So what happens is that thesemultiple products that we're
using every day.
We're having direct andcontinuous exposure.
It is continuing to build in us.
(07:04):
And the longer we're exposed toit, and the repeated lifetime
exposure we have, the morenegative side effects we're
going to have.
This is another ingredient thatI strive to keep away from my
children.
Because at some point in life,they're going to be exposed to
parabens.
However, if I can minimize theirexposure to parabens at a young
(07:26):
age when all of thedevelopmental things are
happening in their body and intheir mind.
Then they have a better chanceand adulthood not having this
negative effect on them.
Parabens, like phthalates, arevery harmful to children because
children are susceptible whenour babies are in the womb, when
they're developing physically,even during adolescents, when
(07:48):
their hormones are developingand puberty.
They have done studies onadolescent girls when they start
wearing makeup.
And those adolescent girls thatwere makeup every single day had
20 times the levels of parabensin their system than those that
never wore makeup or rarely woreit.
(08:09):
The use of face and body,lotions have also skyrocketed
the paraben levels in the sameage range of children.
The point I have in this is thatif, your teens or tweens are
going to be using personal careproducts, I would love, love,
(08:34):
love if you started looking attheir products and the
ingredients of them.
If you're not ready to make thechanges for yourself.
So be it! But see if you canhelp your children have a better
chance of having a long, healthylife.
We did a podcast last Tuesday,you can refer back to, that was
episode three.
(08:55):
I did an interview with my twodaughters and one of their
girlfriends.
We talked about the tween yearsand going into makeup and why
it's not only important to haveclean ingredients, but I got the
perspective of the girls and itwas super sweet and it was so
fun.
My one daughter, I think shecould have her own podcast.
She just like ran away with ashow.
And it's entertaining.
(09:15):
So if you haven't listened toit, I suggest you go back and
listen to episode three, but itjust talks about wearing makeup
and the importance of knowingwhat you're putting on your skin
and washing it off every night.
And why kids want to be in themakeup.
If you have a tween or a teen,please check their ingredients,
help them understand that theproducts that they're using, if
(09:39):
they're going to be usingproducts at this age, which all
girls do for sure.
Some boys.
Even my son, my son wanted hairgel before my girls did.
It's hilarious.
And I told him that I only haveto go to the store and mommy
needs to look at the ingredientsand I will try and find you a
cleaner brand.
He asked and he asked and heasked, he asked and I kept
putting it off andprocrastinating hoping he would
just forget.
(10:00):
Then another two weeks went byand I still hadn't gotten him
anything.
I wanted to get online to find agood hair product for him.
And he just got to the pointwhere he's like, mom, I don't
think you're ever going to doit.
Well, of course that crushed mylittle mama heart.
So I'm like, all right, let'sget in the car.
He's like what?
And I'm like, yeah, let's go.
And we went up to Whole Foods.
Not everything at Whole Foodsare things that I would approve,
(10:20):
but I do check the ingredientson the back of them.
And I did find a hair gel that,you know, it wasn't as bad as
the others.
And it's, it's something that Ifelt safe for him using.
And sure enough, he used itevery day for like three months.
It was awesome.
So I was glad that I didn'twaste money on that product.
Anyway, girls and boys are goingto be using them.
(10:41):
There's different types ofparabens.
Also known as' is important topay attention to these
ingredients because so many arebeing referenced as initials and
you don't know what they mean.
There's not as many initials inparabens as there were in
phthalates.
With parabens, the root of theword it's going to be at the
very end of it.
(11:02):
Some examples is ISO butyl,butyl, ISO propyl, and
propylaparabon.
Anything with the word parabenon the is considered like a
long-chain paraben.
If you see the word paraben, myadvice is just to put it back on
the shelf, keep walking.
In the beginning, when I talkedabout the endocrine disruption
and cancer, the types of cancersthat they have found related to
(11:28):
parabens or in particularlybreast cancer in women.
Because an endocrine disruptorcan be mimicked like an estrogen
and women's bodies.
Parabens can hurt more than justpeople.
These are artificialpreservatives created for
products.
Well, what happens to productsafter we use them?
Did they just disappear intothin air?
(11:50):
No.
Unused products are going to hitlandfills or they're going to be
burned.
They're going to be discardedsomehow.
Right?
Now if the products are not madeto be biodegradable or the
packaging is not verydegradable, it's going to stick
around a long time.
It's going to take a while forthese things to break down.
In addition, let's say you douse these products, only, the
(12:13):
container ended up in thelandfill.
The lotion that you put on, itobsorbed into your skin.
Now there was some residualstill there.
So when you showered that nightbefore bed, It went down the
drain.
Eventually it makes its way backto our streams and our oceans.
It's just the cycle of water andhow it's recycled.
So they have found that butyl-Parabon can kill coral.
(12:37):
The dangers in parabens havebecome more and more evident
over the years.
Thankfully, you have moreoptions when it comes to looking
for paraben-free.
However, I would not go so faras to say that the majority of
products are paraben-free.
Important thing here.
When I say, know youringredients.
If ingredients are not listed ona product.
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It's a red flag.
And it goes back to the firstingredient we discussed on
episode two fragrances.
If it has fragrance on there,chances are there's a paraben in
the product it's just hiddenunder the label.
If fragrance is listed anywhereon the list of ingredients, it
is considered a proprietaryblend and the manufacturer is
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legally allowed to hide otheringredients inside.
Parabens can still be in yourproduct, even if you don't see
the word paraben, because it canbe disguised inside the
ingredients that make up thefragrance.
So just be mindful.
And if it says fragrance,that's, that's the biggest,
that's like the second red flag.
If there's.
No ingredients listed first redflag.
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And then if there is fragrancein the ingredients, second red
flag, because that is hidingsomething from you.
I believe in being fullytransparent and I only use
brands that are fullytransparent with me.
I drove to a farmer's market toan event to find local cottage
market artisans.
I met this woman, Cindy, withHerb Garden Soaps.
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We started talking.
She was describing to me all thechanges that she had made since
she started her business.
One of the products that she hasin addition to the soaps that
she makes is a facial mask.
And it's in a little glass jarand it's a powder.
And she said,'you know, I, Iwent back and forth on how to
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provide my products.
And I learned that in order tomake this face mask last longer,
I had to have preservatives toit, if I added water.
But, if I just sell, the powderand I let my customers mix it
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with water themselves, not onlydoes it prolong the shelf life,
I don't have to add anyartificial preservatives, such
as parabens to make it lastlonger.
So I do not add water to myproducts.
I just provide the powder onthese.' I loved learning that
from her.
I'm grateful that there's peopleout there, that are not only
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paying attention to this, butthey're making products using
this knowledge that they'vegained on what is safer for us.
I'm so grateful for all of theseindividual small businesses that
are creating things that aresafe for us safe for my family.
It's not the end of the world tohave to make your own products.
But it is exhausting.
It's time consuming.
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And frankly, I've got otherthings that other do with my
day.
So I'm glad that there's someplace that I can go and find
these things that I enjoy usingeveryday.
That covers all I have today foryou eco mamas with parabens.
I want to make sure you markyour calendar for next Tuesday.
Next Tuesday's podcast is reallyamazing.
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I know because I've alreadyrecorded it.
It's with Lucy Hutchings, who isa registered dietician.
We have this amazingconversation about the
importance of not only payingattention to the ingredients in
our products, but also theingredients in our food.
And she talks about how it'simportant, to watch out for your
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environmental toxins, becauseeven if you're optimizing your
nutritional value and the foodthat you eat, you can still be
causing harm to yourself.
Environmental toxins canactually block your body's
ability to absorb the nutrients.
If your diet is perfect and yourproducts are filled with toxins,
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you might still having theinability to lose weight or to
have energy and feel better.
They go hand and hand nutritionand ingredients.
Both matter when it comes tooptimizing health.
So join us on Tuesday, be sureto follow so that this episode
will be downloaded and ready foryou when you're ready to listen
to it.
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Thanks again for joining metoday, and I love that you were
here and I look forward toconnect again next week.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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