The environment we live in is not just the air outside. It is everything we put on our skin, breathe into our lungs and use to clean our homes.
For years I didn’t think much about this. Shampoo was shampoo, cleaning spray was cleaning spray and makeup was just makeup. When I made comments about this, the usual response I would get was everything is made of chemicals, our bodies are made to deal with it…
One of my favourite books on this topic is How to Stay Alive in Toxic Times by Dr Jenny Goodman. But my personal experience started in my 20s when I started obsessing over product labels on cosmetics, makeups, skin products and everything else on shop shelves. I started to see how many everyday products contain chemicals that did not exist for most of human history and how constant low-level exposure can quietly overload the body.
Skin absorbs what we put on it.
We inhale what we spray.
We live surrounded by substances that can interfere with hormones, immunity and detox systems even when they are used exactly as directed. None of this feels dramatic in the moment, but over time it adds up.
I began to question why we accept burning eyes, headaches or skin irritation as normal side effects of being clean or well groomed. Cleaning up our environment is not about fear or perfection. It is about reducing unnecessary stress on the body and giving it fewer battles to fight every day.
This is also a huge topic which I will cover in detail, coming soon…