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Welcome to White Lotus Living!
Our mission is to help you replace the everyday products you use which contain harmful, toxic, and/or carcinogenic chemical ingredients with safer, healthier, more pure products to support your health-and your family's! You can create a more enjoyable, closer-to-nature lifestyle by replacing your harmful products one-by-one. Transform your home into a welcoming, safe haven for friends and family to enjoy. Our customer reward policy provides discounts for you as you progress along your path, adding more categories to your own personal, safe product list.
Why are safe ingredients important?
Do we really have a problem with chemicals? Feel free to explore all the resources on this site and beyond to find out why the answer is "Yes - a serious one."
We used to believe that our skin served as a barrier to protect our internal organs and systems. Some still do. However, we have a "patch" technology to deliver medications to our bloodstream. We use patches placed on our skin to deliver a controlled release of nicotine 24 hours a day to help people stop smoking. We use patches for birth control, heart attack prevention and any number of other uses. This technology proves that no matter what we put on the surface of our skin, it penetrates directly into our bloodstream and is carried to our muscles, nerves, brain and other organs. If we apply chemically-laden lotions, oils and cleansers to our skin, or use products like household cleaners or pesticides with close contact, those chemicals are invading every cell in our body.
We used to breathe cleaner air, but many areas of our world today are polluted. The products we use in our homes determine the quality of the air we breathe. If we use a lot of chemical-based products, we are breathing in those chemicals 24/7 and suffering their assault. The environmental protection agency has reported that the air inside our homes is up to five times more polluted than the air outside. It's time to rid our homes of harmful chemicals!
The first step is knowledge
If you need to determine whether the statements here are true or not, many independent resources are available on the Internet and in the news. We continue to gather a lot of it here to save you time, but you can verify it yourself with third party sources you trust.
Once you decide there is a problem, it's very important to know what products to avoid and what products to use in their place. When you begin your search, you'll soon discover like I did that not only is it difficult to separate the good from the bad (there's a lot of mis-information and false advertising out there), but there is no one source where you can get the safe products you want to use. There's not even a convenient place to find the information. The task is overwhelming. Unfortunately, it seems much easier to keep using the old "reliable" products that are right in front of us on the shelf. It's so easy to keep on with our busy schedules and brush the "chemical issue" under the rug.
This is why White Lotus Living came to be. It hurts me to see us all give up and feel it's alright to keep bombarding our bodies with chemicals. We do it because it's easier and we also do it because we're attached to the products we love. We don't want to have to make a change. We're content. I get really sad and frightened for people when I hear them say, "I don't think I want to know what's in my products." ...because they want to keep on using them, ignoring the serious dangers.
The next step is action
The problem with ignoring the information is that although we can't readily see the effects the chemicals are having on our bodies and our health, the effects are still there, accumulating every day. Scientists are beginning to prove the connections between specific chemicals and specific human diseases. The effects of our everyday chemicals are much more serious for our developing children than for adults.
If we as individuals don't change our habits, one day in the future we or someone we love may develop a serious illness and it will be too late to go back to reverse the damage. Wouldn't it be completely tragic if, when that time comes, we realize we could have prevented the illness - we had the information yet chose not to act? The good news is, you can do something about it today! And you have a reason to act ... the information is right in front of you. And new, fun to use, safe products are being formulated every day that we can become attached to instead! The truth will set you free.
If the majority of us don't change our habits, our earth will also suffer and cease to support us. In the same way, one day the damage will be too severe to reverse. Do you want to have to face that day or have your children face it?
Let's all start now before it's too late!
It's better to suffer the mere inconvenience of change than to be forced to suffer the pain of deep regret and fear later over an inability to save our lives. We are already seeing the early signs of the destruction to our health and to our environment caused by our abundant use of chemicals. The publicity is getting harder and harder to avoid.
Please visit "Helping You," "Our Story" and the White Lotus Blog to keep up with the latest news and research regarding the chemicals we're exposed to daily, their effects, and how to live a chemical-free life as much as possilbe. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed. And know that no matter what you purchase from this site, it's been reviewed and determined by a trusted third party to be less harmful than most of the standard products on our shelves today.
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