Greening your whole life the right way, rather than being tricked by marketing companies that are pretending to be green to put more money in their pockets. But it’s beyond even that. Greening your life and living naturally goes to your very roots! It even transforms the way you think about your relationships with other people. Let’s go beyond green!
There’s so much info out there about “green stuff” that it’s really hard to figure out what’s really green and what’s just pretending to be just so you’ll buy it. That’s why when I began to green my own life, I decided to give back by sharing my finds and my journey with everyone.
To detoxify your home and your life, you have to read every label (on the back) of every new product before you buy it. Take a new moisturizer for example. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find one that’s free from synthetic chemicals (including “fragrance”). Then you buy it and find that either the product doesn’t do what it promises or you just don’t like it for some reason—oops! Back to square one!
And that’s just a single product from one category. Multiply that by the hundreds of everyday items you will eventually want to replace and suddenly you have a full time job and a lot of expense sampling products. It just takes too much time and research to go truly natural. And it’s far too easy to give up, which is truly a shame for everyone.
Ridding your life of harmful synthetic chemicals is an important job because not only will it help you maintain your health (and your family’s if you have one), but cutting down on chemical use will help us sustain our planet. And so far, we only have one Earth on which to live—we can’t afford to mess up!
What’s remarkable to me is that I’ve discovered my original, almost frantic intent to get the chemicals out of my house has created a much more extensive transformation in my life. I’ve become enriched in so many more ways than anticipated. And it’s the entire journey I’d like to share with you here.
So stay tuned! It’s a wonderful Beyond Green life!!
© 2011 White Lotus Living, Inc.
[This article, written by our founder Jan in 2008, is the reason she created White Lotus Living]
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Every time I search for new products, it’s the same—I get a feeling of excitement as I start reading about a new product that looks useful, interesting or fun and that markets itself as being natural, eco friendly, healthy, or one of many terms that makes it seem potentially safe to use. I then immediately turn to the ingredient label and typically experience inevitable disappointment as I reach the middle or end of the list and start finding suspect ingredients. The mission of White Lotus Living is to offer only the purest of products to our customers.
Sometimes I resort to searching for new products on competitor’s websites. I haven’t found a competitor yet that goes to the same length we do to scour the ingredient labels of our products. I’m convinced that many of them feel the need to offer brand names people recognize because they are easier to sell. Many of the name brands, however, (and I would go so far as to say most of the name brands)—even if they are marketed as pure and natural—are still made from those nasty chemicals we want to avoid.
“Fragrance” is Our First Stumbling Block Today
I found a new product I like and want to check out. I hope it’s a good one! It has “Naturals” in the brand name in addition to a man’s first name. Based on past research, I know a word like “natural” in the product name means nothing. It has not been defined like the term USDA Organic has. There are no requirements to use this word. No entity consistently follows up on the use of this term in a way that can be relied on. (more…)