So we've been doing mega reading and research on natural and not natural. My personal conclusions on the subject have become increasingly clear. When I got into the soap making business a few years ago, my intention was to create products that were unanimously safe for the whole family. Then (conquering music please), I discovered fragrance oils. I was quickly led away from my goals of creating the safest and best, only to slide in next to everyone else. Yes there are natural soapers too, but fewer than the fragrance oil soapers. Honestly, I personally don't think they are that harmful, but when my young son developed a terrible cough that would not go away and we removed all traces of fragrance from the home he suddenly got better. I just think there are some people that cannot tolerate some of the chemicals in them.
That brings me to another issue involved in this choice to naturalize the biz. I was talking to a friend of the family recently and he was telling me that apple seeds have arsenic, but not to worry, its only enough to kill the parasites living in our bodies. Therefore, needless to say, he eats the apple seeds. I was thinking, although good not to have parasites, maybe there is a reason the water companies alert us when there is too much arsenic in the water. Its a poison that can build up in our bodies and my personal feeling on the matter is, if its a poison, its a poison, end of story. Whether I put a little in my body or a lot, there will still be some effect from it at some point in my life so why take a risk? I'm thinking maybe this is part of why most people don't eat apple seeds and don't even know it. What's the point?! You must be asking. Well, the point is, I don't want to dally around with what God made. He made plants with natural fragrances and gave us the ability to extract those natural essences for things like aromatherapy and well, soap.
We are so over sensitized to scents that when we initially make the switch we feel like we stink. We probably do, until our bodies get used to the lack of over fragrancing. Its kind of like when I first quit wearing makeup about 13 years ago. At first, I felt like my eyes disappeared and then all of a sudden I began getting acne, which I had never had before. Of course not! I had so many products on my face all the time there was no place for the poison to go. O.k. some of you may be rolling your eyes at this point, but in all honesty was Eve created with a little makeup bag? No. Instead she was taught the right way to eat, the importance of exercise and many other life enhancing habits. Let's get back to nature, back to reality and see if our health doesn't improve.
So the next step? For the next month we are going to be adding all natural soaps, body and room sprays, scrubs, and even deodorant to our shop. Literally remodeling the shop. We will be offering a few fragrance oil soaps in our clearance section until we run out, then our shop will be all natural. Join us in our quest to be healthy, both in the products we use and make and also in our daily lives.
Our next post: Insanity. The program we have started to either kill ourselves (hubby and me)or make us more fit than ever!
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