Personal care products can throw your body out of balance.  If you are using products that contain harmful ingredients, your skin, scalp, and mouth are absorbing those harmful things into your blood stream.  Your liver can become overtaxed and sluggish trying to filter these out of your body.  Your body doesn’t know what to do with synthetics, dyes, or the ingredients listed below.   Your body can become imbalanced, an unhealthy state of being.

Harmful Ingredients Found In Most Personal Care Products:

Parabens

 Mineral Oil, Paraffin, and Petrolatum

Sodium laurel or lauryl sulfate (SLS), also known as sodium laureth sulfate (SLES)

Acrylamide

Propylene glycol

Phenol carbolic acid

Dioxane

Toluene

This is a short list, and these were grandfathered into the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) list many years ago by the FDA.  Today there are organizations working for us to have harmful ingredients removed from our personal care products.  It’s a long journey as you can imagine and progress is being made.

Until your everyday brands create safer products for our daily use, we do have some health conscious companies paving the way.  I have found several places to purchase healthy skin and mouth care products.

For mouth care I use YoungLiving Dentarome Ultra, and Thieves Fresh Essence Plus Mouthwash .  Both  include powerful essential oils that are known to get rid of bad bacteria.  The toothpaste also removes stains for a brighter smile, and can be found at:

www.youngliving.org/facialessence

I also purchase some skin care products from YoungLiving including the Satin Facial Scrub Mint,  Sandlewood Moisture Cream, Sacred Mountain Bar Soap, to name a few.   AromaGuard Mountain Mint Deodorant is my choice for underarm protection.

YoungLiving is also my place to purchase therapuetic essential oils, but that’s another subject for another time.

I also have found organic and no harmful ingredients skin care at:

www.healthyskinwithsusan.com 

At this website you will find beautifully scented with all natural ingredients skin products for your skin type.

You should consider changing from harmful personal care products to non-toxic personal care products.  Once you begin using these healthy alternatives you will notice how much better you feel when using them in the shower, after the shower, and at the bathroom sink.  You will also enjoy the sense of well-being you have throughout the day just by using products that create a higher vibration in and around you.

Having balance in your life doesn’t take anymore work than you are already doing.  You may just have to rearrange some things. 

First you have to become aware of the imbalances in your life.  Do you need to give more attention to how you are spending your time?  Or maybe you are feeling physically out of balance.  Another area of imbalance can fall into the financial category.

Balancing Time

Are you in the habit of wasting time?  Many of us do, so if you are seeing yourself in this category you are not alone!  Would it mean that you spend a designated amount of time doing the things you enjoy, compared to the amount of time you do chores and duties at home, compared to the time you spend earning a living?  How can you rearrange to make better use of your time?

Body In Balance

Maybe more balance in your life would be to exercise more, eat less fatty and/or sugary foods to help get your body in a healthier more attractive state.  Learn to listen to your body and it will tell you what it needs.  Yoga is my favorite exercise for flexibility, strength, and body awareness.  Find what works for you.

Financial Balance

Maybe it’s money that’s out of balance in your life.  So, do you need to cut up some of those credit cards, pay down the balances, and build up an emergency fund?  Maybe adding a low cost investment home business would help bring your finances back in balance.   We all know that more money coming in, and less money going out is a balance that can be hard to achieve. 

No matter where you need more balance in your life, rest assured that you can create balance by changing some habits.  All it takes is becoming aware of the habits you have now, and making a few adjustments to time, exercise and food choices, and earning and spending habits.  You will begin seeing and feeling a higher quality of life almost immediately.