Product Exposure
- Ava
- Sep 9
- 5 min read
Updated: Oct 28
Our skin is the largest organ of our body. Yet so many harmful chemicals, and often unnecessary chemicals, are lurking in our laundry detergents, cleaning products, makeup, face wash, shampoos, conditioners, and more.
**Note: I don't make any money based on the product recommendations below; I just want to see people living their best and healthiest lives.
Clothes Detergent
Laundry wash used to be made from soap. But I realized not only were they not made from soap anymore, but they also contained other ingredients that had health effects including allergen producing ingredients. Cal Ben used to be a wonderful company for clean detergent. But they now include sodium metasilicate, rated "F" on EWG Healthy Living for its high potential to cause skin allergies, irritation, asthma, and respiratory issues. It was sad to notice in 2022, that many of their soap based products had changed. Unfortunately, they never informed their customers of this change. If you can, look for as little ingredients as possible for your laundry cleaner. In the past, clothes were washed with soap. There is no need for fragrances, they are a marketing trick to make us believe that smells mean the clothes are clean. In fact, many fragrances have health risk factors, including allergies and immunotoxicity. EWG website is a great search tool to understand ingredients (https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ingredients/702512-FRAGRANCE/).
Makeup/Face-wash/Shampoos/Face Creams
In 2018, I began to notice so many women I knew were becoming sick. Everyone was dealing with one issue or another. At the same time, I noticed my mascara began to cause my eyelid to swell up. That started me on the journey of understanding what was in my mascara and so much more.
First let me say, most of the expensive brands in the malls (especially in 2018), were filled with the most toxic chemicals! I used to think that paying more meant getting higher-quality, healthier products. But, this could not be further from the truth. At the time, I was so shocked with how many products were coming back with harmful ingredients that I began a website just to help others know there are healthier products out there. They weren't marketed as heavily as other products, but they existed.
I created this site, with various products listed and my impression of each product. Yet, I found over time some of these brands went out of business or were being bought up and their ingredients were changing. There seems to be a trend that when something is healthier for you, the company either fails or gets bought out and the product line changes.
I then began purchasing much of my makeup from Australian brands. They have much stricter guidelines for their products. One ingredient I found in almost all American-brand makeup is an ingredient called titanium dioxide. Titanium Dioxide is a whitening agent and can be used for sunscreen purposes. But exposure to it has been linked to lung cancer. Not to mention it is also used in foods within US and Canada (although banned in 2022 in Europe). https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ingredients/7437-TitaniumDioxide/. In the U.S., it is used in gum, soda, candy, chocolate, sauces, dairy products, and cake decorations. The question to ask is why? This ingredient seems to be just an additive that is not needed in our makeup or food products, is a known health hazard ...yet the FDA allows it. California has titanium dioxide listed as a known carcinogen. Yet this disclosure is not listed on our makeup, or the foods that contain it.
The more people become aware of how our health is under attack, the more empowered we become to make healthier choices, and to push corporations to change their behavior. It is as if they are purposely wanting to keep people sick so that people do not realize who and what they are, and their full potential.
Taking Your Power Back
What can you do? The good news is there are many more cleaner brands available now than five years ago. As we change where we spend our money, the manufacturers will be forced to change their behavior.
In terms of laundry cleaners, Simply Co Laundry Detergent appears to be a company with limited ingredients that uses soap based laundry cleaners. Companies can and do change their ingredients as the example above with Cal Ben, so please every once in a while double check the ingredients.
Cleaning Products:
The same is true for cleaning products. So many of them are filled with heavy toxins. Instead, you can make cleaning solutions easily at home.
Granite Cleaner and Disinfectant:
1/4 cup rubbing alcohol
2 drops concentrated dish soap
20 drops organic eucalyptus essential oil (antifungal, ant-bacterial, and antiviral) or use tea tree oil (also - antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral properties)
Fill rest of bottle with distilled water or filtered water
Place in glass spray bottle and shake, done!
All Purpose Spray
1 drop concentrated dish soap
Distilled water or filtered water
Place in glass spray bottle and shake, done!
This is so much more cost effective and healthier for you.
Branch Basics also has a great collection of glass spray, all-purpose cleaning solutions you can make as well. Please check the ingredients, as companies can change ingredients at any time. Branch Basics Starter Kit. One bottle of concentrate can last years.
Cleaner Makeup Brands:
These are some of the healthier makeup brands I have found, but again, please double-check the ingredients as brands can and do change their ingredients without warning. Australian brands appear to have stricter guidelines in terms of makeup ingredients.
You can order samples from their website. This is an Australian brand.
Face cream product from Australia
This is a brand my cousin recommended that is from the US. It appears clean.
Another brand recommended by my cousin that is from the US. It also appears clean.
Creating Your Own Products
A friend also shared ways of making your own lipstick and collagen cream.
As a community, with the awareness we can come together to share cleaner products and make our own. We no longer need to be beholden to companies, whose purpose is profit at the cost of other's health. We can take back our power, in order to elevate our energy. Illness lowers our energy and vibration. Everything carries energy with it.
Ways to Search Product Ingredients
Find the product whose ingredients you want to review.
Copy its ingredients list
Open this website: COSDNA, ( click here)
In the ingredients list box, paste your products ingredients and select "ingredients analysis"
The site will reference EWG website and bring back which items are low rating (1-2) and which have high rating for harm to health (6+).
This is a partial sample result of La Prairie Pure Gold Radiance Eye Cream through COSDNA. This cream at the moment costs $725, and includes ingredients Titanium Dioxide and Fragrance. Pay attention to the Safety Column results.
Remember, as you apply healthier products to your body, your energy is also affected. The first step to regaining your health and energy is becoming aware of what surrounds you. Then, you make a conscious choice to change what doesn't help you or your body.
Albert Einstein demonstrated that everything around us is energy:
E (energy) = M (mass) C (speed of light)^2.
This formula shows that mass (physical objects) and energy are interchangeable. Any object with mass contains energy, even if it appears solid. Products that are good for us carry high-vibration energy, while those that are not good for us can lower our energetic field. This can eventually lead to health imbalances.
