What Clean Beauty Has Taught Me. My top 10 Clean Beauty Tips.

#1. You may be able to prevent it.

While learning ALOT about the ingredients in the products we are using daily, the effects they can have on our bodies can be quite harmful. There may be ingredients that cause skin irritations, allergies, sensitizers, and even endocrine disruptors or cancer.

So I like having the peace of mind in knowing what is in my products. Otherwise, you may not know the effects inside your body until it’s too late.

I was amazed when I learned how to read the product labels on how many harmful ingredients there are, and in most products. The back of a package used to look foreign to me. I now have the confidence to distinguish the different symbols and knowing what ingredients to look out for.

I feel confident in what I buy for my family.

#2. There are so many good options out there.

You don’t have to settle for a product that isn’t supporting your health. Our beauty products should add to our wellbeing, not hurt our health. Whoever said, “Beauty is pain,” sure was wrong.

Many companies are starting to wise up and raise their standards. They know the consumers are beginning to educate themselves on their products.

With that said, there are so many up and coming companies and ones that have been around for years. You just may not have heard of them. That’s what’s so great about the internet, and we can connect to so many other brands.

With that being said, you don’t need to own EVERYTHING! I want you to take a look in your bathroom and see how many products you currently own that you don’t use.

Keep your “blinders” on, so you don’t get overwhelmed. Focus on one category at a time.

#3. There are so many other great advocates

I love seeing all of the other women out there, advocating for clean beauty as well. I don’t view them as competitors because we are in this as a team to make a difference.

It’s really neat also to see other’s opinions and views.

#4. This is how I can make my impact

I’ve always wanted to feel like I was contributing to a larger impact. What I mean, I love connecting with women and making them feel beautiful. Now I can also connect with more women and make an impact on their health.

By spreading the word and educating others on the beauty products we use and what we want to avoid, I am part of the clean beauty movement. That’s what I want. I want to change the beauty industry standard. I dream one day that my kids won’t need to read labels and ingredient lists because there won’t be anything harmful allowed in products. That’s what I’m striving for.

I recently watched the documentary series “Down to Earth,” and it’s incredible. It was so inspiring seeing how other countries were handling the environment and helping to keep it clean. I was obsessed! But it just goes to show that anything is possible and it’s up to use to make the change.

#5. I was very overwhelmed in the beginning

Why was I so overwhelmed? Like I said before, the back of the labels used to look foreign to me. I did so much research, hours upon hours. I used to rattle off ingredient names in my sleep, so my husband says. I was researching daily, and I wanted to share everything I had been learning along the way.

I could have taken an easier route and signed up to work with someone or followed someone online for a while, but I did it on my own. It would have been much faster the other way.

I had to continue to remind myself that it is “Progress, not perfection.” Once you start noticing the harmful ingredients in your products, you want to throw everything out and start over. However, let’s be real, that’s not very realistic. You have to weigh how harmful one product is over another and start there.

I teach my students in Impact with Clean Beauty to make a list of what products they will replace first, second, third, etc. Then you don’t feel like it has to be all at once.

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