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Inside My Makeup Bag: Detoxing Beauty Care

Isn’t it fun to snoop?

Sorry to disappoint- it’s really not that exciting. As we gear up for registration for our next round of the Fab Detox program, you might be thinking- meh, I don’t need to detox. My diet is clean as a whistle. That’s what I used to think too- not realizing the other areas of my life that also needed a little cleansing. My make-up case was one of them.

Are you ready to discover all you need to know about looking your hottest self sans the toxic waste? Are you sure you’re ready for it? See cause once you go clean, you can’t go back.

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Soy: Masquerading As A Whole Lot Of Other Stuff

I know that my readers and friends of my readers get their vegan underthings in a tangle whenever we hate on soy over here. I know. I understand. It goes beyond dietary choices to animal rights and cries for compassion. The point we continue to try and make, however, continues to be missed, or misunderstood. We’e not saying you have to up and start mowing on the farm animals if that’s just not you’re thing. Allow this to be another attempt to help you understand why soy does need to have a conscious place in your diet.

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Cleaning Up Our Cleaning Stuff: A Rub Down With Toxins

I spent hours of time researching, testing recipes, researching more, testing more recipes and seriously freaking myself out with what I was learning and am now bursting at the seams to offer you the important nuggets.

Is it possible that the products we are using on our body might be causing more harm to our long term health than what we are eating? Oh YES I say YES.

This is scary to me personally because, despite my hip hip hoorah for whole, unprocessed foods, I have wicked curly frizz ball hair and so there lies a bottle of L’Oreal’s Curl Enhancer. I went through three bottles when I was living in St. Lucia for three months. There very few contraband things kicking around my cosmetic cabinet at this point, but wow I was a product whore (can I say whore?). In no particular order these are the things I regret most from my past

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