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Start Here: 5 Crucial Steps to Decrease Toxins in Your Home
This post will help you do the five most important things to detox your home. I will tell you exactly what to swap to make this as easy as possible to get the biggest bang for your dollars and your efforts.
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Non-Toxic Wooden Furniture Guide
1. Clean Sleep 2. Medley 3. Copeland 4. Vermont Woods Studio 5. Avocado Skip to: When you think of natural, non-toxic furniture materials, wood probably comes to mind immediately. In theory, wooden furniture should be free of toxins, but there are several things to look out for when considering a bed frame, dresser, dining table, […]
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Shopping for Non-Toxic Area Rugs
Written by Maia James You may already know that rugs can bring a lot of unwanted toxins into your home. These toxins are of special concern if you have babies and young children who spend a lot of time rolling, crawling, and playing on the floor. Even if you don’t have pets or little kids […]
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Non-Toxic Mattress Guide
UPDATED: November 2021 Written by Maia & John Finding a non-toxic mattress is super-important, but also super-confusing to work through. If your head hurts just looking at the length of this page, please feel free to email our Home Health Director, John, for individualized help. You can also call him at 717-413-8182. This video is […]
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Flame Retardants Cost Kids 162 IQ Points
Did you guys all see the important research about the dangers of flame retardant chemicals that came out last week? In case you haven’t seen the headlines, here are the key points from the study: New research from NYU revealed that flame retardants (specifically PBDEs) pose a growing threat children’s IQ–more than lead or mercury. […]
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Choosing a Non-Toxic Carpet
Recently, I’ve had a few private consulting clients ask about non-toxic carpeting. As a result, I’ve spent some time more deeply looking into this. I hope this post helps answer the big question: Is there such thing as truly safe, non-toxic carpeting? What Makes Carpeting Toxic? As my dad wrote in the flooring post about our […]
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Toxin-Free Grandparenting: How to Support Your Children & Protect Your Grandchildren’s Health
This post is for all of the conscious grandparents out there – the ones trying to navigate this world of natural living so that a non-toxic lifestyle can be passed down to future generations! Of course, parenting has changed over the decades and will continue to evolve. What we thought was safe and healthy for […]
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Killing Me Softly – How to Create a Safe, Non-toxic Bedroom
We are often asked, “I want to detox my home…where should I start?” And we almost always answer: the bedroom. Bedrooms are a sanctuary: a peaceful, soft place…a place to lay back…a place to let everything go… a place to rest…to heal…to rejuvenate. And yes, we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep, but let’s take […]
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Safe Sofa Guide
UPDATED: October 2017 Skip to: When I was on The Dr. Oz Show last month, my co-guest was a toxicologist from Yale. Although we were discussing phthalates in macaroni and cheese , when I asked him what he was MOST worried about in terms of toxins in the home, he said household dust, largely thanks […]
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3 Easy Ways to Have a Less Toxic Home
Even if you live in an urban location, the air inside your home is likely more polluted than the air on the city streets outside. If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably know that indoor air contamination comes from places like the paint on your walls, carpeting on your floors, and flame retardant […]