Top 5 Reasons to Shop for Natural Products

Today, I’m so excited to be able to share a guest post with you by Michelle Sayers, the founder and CEO of Beauty From Bees. Michelle is a mom, just like me, who wanted safe, non-toxic products to use on her babies and when she couldn’t find what she wanted, she made it! Not only am I huge fan of the products, but I’ve been able to collaborate with the brand on my CALM Collection and have a hand in creating the products you can feel safe using on you and your little ones. Thanks to Michelle for these great products and also for the below blog on Reasons to Shop for Natural Alternatives!

What’s the first thing you do when you’re checking out a new product for your family? Do you search it online, looking for reviews? Do you open the cap and sniff it to make sure it’s a scent you’re going to love? Do you scan the shelf looking for packaging that will look beautiful on your shelf? While I’m probably going to do all of those things, the first thing I do when I’m considering a new product is flip it over and check out the ingredients list! For my family, I want to see lists that are filled with ingredients that I recognize, ones I know are safe, trusted and effective. I don’t want to see synthetic scents, numbered colours, or chemicals I don’t know anything about!

But why? Why is it so important to me that the products we use are filled with only natural ingredients? There are a lot of reasons, but the biggest one is the health and safety of my family. Here are five of my top reasons for reaching for natural alternatives, and always reading the ingredients list before trying anything new!

1.ABSORPTION

The things that we put onto our skin quite often end up absorbed into our bodies, and that can be a scary thought if you get right down to it! Many bath, body and skincare products are filled with so many toxic, harmful ingredients that I wouldn’t trust anywhere near my skin, let alone absorbed into my bloodstream, having full access to build up in my organs, causing damage that can’t be seen. Studies have shown that the chemicals used in many sunscreen brands have been found floating around in user’s bloodstreams, and that’s just not where they belong. For my family, we stick to products that don’t contain those dangerous toxins, because if they aren’t on our skin, chances are they won’t end up inside our bodies!

2.SIDE EFFECTS

As much as we all love a deliciously scented product, the way they’re scented can be a problem. A lot of brands use harmful chemicals to create their aromas, which means we’re actually breathing in those chemicals every time we take a whiff. While some of these scents are harmless, many of them can cause headaches, throat and nose irritation, nausea, and other respiratory and neurotoxic symptoms. For my family, these risks just aren’t worth the reward of having a candle that smells like freshly baked cookies. There are natural, safe ways to scent our products, and that’s what we’re all about. Using essential oils, natural extracts, or just baking the cookies will have us and our homes smelling just as amazing, without the side effects!

3.LONG-TERM DAMAGE

How often do we hear about “tried and true” remedies? There’s a reason they’re popular - because they’ve been tried, and found to be true! A lot of products on the market use very new research and methods, relying on ingredients that are newly invented, and that we really don’t know too much about. Remember when we learned that the chemicals in a very popular baby powder brand were actually causing cancer in some of the users? That’s why we rely on natural, tested, proven-safe ingredients!

4.sensitivities

Some of us are a little sensitive, and I don’t just mean in the crying at Hallmark movies kind of way! Whether it’s a headache caused by too harsh of scents, or skin irritations flaring up because of reactions to ingredients, there are a lot of products out there that claim to be gentle when they’re really not. For us, making sure that we are careful with sensitivities means reading the labels, and looking for products that have short, safe, natural ingredient lists that won’t cause irritation or discomfort when they are used!

5.misleading labels

Probably one of the biggest reasons that we rely on natural alternatives is because of the sneaky way that companies hide ingredients in their products. “Natural” stamped on the front of a label doesn’t always mean that the ingredient list will be free of chemicals or toxins. “Fragrance” can mean any number of dangerous chemicals mixed together to create a scent that we might enjoy. Even “Fragrance-Free” can be misleading, when it doesn’t mean the product is unscented, but simply that no ingredients have been added for the sole purpose of creating a fragrance! Labels, if not read carefully, can easily trap us in their “all-natural” allure, when the ingredients list starts out looking great, and ends with a string of chemicals that we didn’t think we’d find.

For my family, this journey started with being frustrated while trying to find products that had ingredients lists we could trust for our babies, and it ended with us creating our own brand of all-natural products that are filled with ingredients that are truly natural, with nothing hiding behind the label! Everything we make is always made with only natural ingredients, no quotation marks required! We are proud to be able to provide your family and ours with products for your bath, body and home that are free of toxins, while being just as effective as their chemical-laden counterparts.

Along this business-building journey, we’ve had the opportunity to work with some incredible, like-minded people, like Angela, to create collections that line. up with both of our beliefs! We’ve worked together to create products for your babies, your hair, your skin and even your home that are as natural as can be, and that’s just the way we think it should be! If I could, I’d swap out every product we use with a safer, natural alternative, and we’re slowly working towards that, bringing out new products and collections that we hope you’ll love using, just as much as we love making them!

All we really want is what’s best for our families, and that starts with making sure that the products we use in our lives, on our bodies, and around our homes are as safe as they can be, and filled with ingredients we know we can trust!

That’s exactly why I partnered with Beauty From Bees, I wanted to create products that both you and I can use on our kids and feel safe doing so. Creating the CALM Collection was such a fun process and I’m really proud of the six products we were able to create! You can shop those HERE.

Much Love,