Here is an interesting video about sun care I thought you might like:

Personal Care Safe & Solvent-Free Best Bets

Bars: Suisun Bay Soap Co., Chandrika Ayurvedic Soap, Clearly Natural Glycerin Soap, most bar soaps at most health food stores are o.k., all of the bar soaps at Whole Foods Market seem to be o.k.. Dr. Bronner’s Castille Soap Liquid baby formula (light blue bottle). Plantlife, Riversoap Company, Glycerine Soaps sold at Whole Foods, Dessert Essence Liquid Soap with Tea Tree Oil

Deoderant (strong): Real Purity Deoderant (also Vital Image),

Deoderant (mild): Le Crystal also called Crystal Stick Deoderant, Na PCA non oily, Nature’s Gate Spring Fresh Scent Deoderant Stick (using oat derived odor blocker and witch hazel.) Luminance Skin Care Deoderant we carry in the Triad Of Health office.

Shaving Crème: Shaving Miracle (The Vital Image)

Toothpaste: Real Purity Toothpaste, Unda’s Homeofresh or Triad Of Health’s Liquid Mineral Complex or Kiss My Face Triple Action Certified Organic Aloe Vera Toothpaste or Kiss My Face triple Action Whitening Toothpaste – avoid if fluoride is an ingredient (Caution: both of these toothpastes from Kiss my face will interfere with Homeopathic therapies), Jason Healthy Mouth Tea Tree Toothpaste. Try to avoid products with fluoride in them

Toothpaste Alternative: Pristine (Safe Earth): (Caution: This interferes with
Homeopathic therapies).  Triad Of Health carries 5 separate types of toothpaste that we ship in from England and Canada.  Our Fennel toothpaste is so amazing that people cannot seem to stop brushing their teeth.

Shampoo & Crème Rinse: All of Hauchka’s and Jurlique shampoos and Crème rinses.
Real Purity and The vital Image. Aveda’s plant-based shampoos and crème rinses (chamomile, clove, black Malva, etc.) All of Burt’s Bees Products for hair, Bee-Hair-Now: Beeceuticals Organics, Alba Cocoa butter dry-repair hair wash shampoo, Alba coconut milk extra-rich revitalisant, Alba plumeria replenishing hair conditioner. All Giovani products sold at Whole Foods Market are good however, avoid the magnetic energizing shampoo and conditioners. Select Juice Organics hair care such as Pomsmooth Pomegranite Conditioner.

Hair Detangler /
Condition Spray: Hair Myst (The Vital Image), Aveda’s cherry / Almond Bark, Rosemary / Mint Conditioners and Deep Penetrating Hair Revitalizer, Morocco’s holistic organic shampoos and crème rinses.

Body Lotion / Oil: Hauschka’s Rose or Quince Body Moisturizer (or Jurlique), Vitamin E Oil, unscented Shea Butter that does not have tons of other ingredients or preservatives, pure rose hips oil is good. Aloe Vera Gel that has very few ingredients other than aloe vera is good. Most nut or seed oils that are unscented tend to be good, however, immediately after purchasing the oil you should open it and put either vitamin E oil into it, astazanthin (liquid) or lutein in order to preserve the oil and keep it from going rancid.

Moisture Lotion (face): Day time: Hauschka Moisturinzing Day Cream or Jurlique Nighttime: Hauschka Rose “Day” Cream or Jurlique, the specific Juice Beauty products such as Nutrient Moisturizer, Antioxidant serum, oil free moisturizer, Blemish Be Gone for acne, and organic lip moisturizer and organic facial rejuvenating mask. Pure Rose hips oil is good. Aubry Pure Aloe Vera, Na PCA non oily, Duchess Maden: Damasceria Crème Cleanser, Damasceria Foaming Cleanser, Damasceria Pure Rose Water, Damasceria Face Crème.

Shower Gel: Bodhichitta, Alba Passion fruit body wash, organic Apoteke Body Cleanse Gel, Whole Foods Fragrance Free shower gel, Sensuous Beauty Cleansing Grains and also lip and eye balm

Skin Peel: Fruit Acid Program with alpha hydroxyl acid (Cara Bella – best administered by a professional esthetician) – however, best to just use nothing as you are not necessarily skin peel deficient.

“face-lift” lotion: C-serum & Lipid Complex (The Vital Image)

Oil to Transform Skin: Le Visage (Safe Earth) reduces brown spots, broken capillaries, etc.) Most pure vitamin E oil is good – the more expensive and natural the better, rose hips oil is good, pure Shea butter with nothing added, jojoba oil may be o.k. if you add vitamin E oil to it to preserve it.

Lipstick: Hemp, Real Purity. At www.vitasalus.com they may carry a lipstick or tell you where to get one.

Lip Gloss: Country Comfort or Nanak’s Lip Smoothie (health food stores) Lip and Skin Palm (Vital Image)

Make-up: Real Purity (mascara, eyeliner, blush-on, concealer, Foundation, powder…)

Hair Spray: Non-Aerosol Hair Spray (alcohol-free) Real Purity

Spray Setting Lotion: Body Plus Setting Lotion (Real Purity)

Hair Setting Lotion: Natural Styling Gel (Real Purity), Confixor (Aveda).

Gel: Aubrey Gel (works like Mousse) health food stores

Suntan Lotion (mild SPF): Real Purity Suntan Lotion (can’t use if sensitive to PABA). May use zinc sunscreen from Real Purity as an alternative.

Suntan Lotion (strong SPF): Badger, Burn Out, Green Screen, Dr. Ilya has special therapies to prevent and also to treat sun burn that come from Total Body Modification and the work of Dr. Victor Frank.

Fingernail Polish: None! (Nail Buffer – “Is It Wet” from Cherie at Chadwick’s Salon (425) 672-8773

Perfume: None! They contain toxic toluene and other chemicals. Alternative: Clean, nontoxic essential oils from “landscape hydrosol and essential oils for health and beauty” at www.allstarorganics.com. (These are still in testing mode.)

Best Hair Color: Logona Henna (this is toxic, but less toxic than most)
Aveda Hair Color (at specific Aveda salons like Mitra at Belli Capelli 415-346-4100)

Best Cleaners: Health Food Stores or Lifetime Solutions. Focus on using vinegar or vinegar based products or citrus based products made from lemmon, orange or grapefruit. Hydrogen Peroxide is toxic but not too bad if not ingested. Rubbing alcohol is toxic but tends to be somewhat less toxic than ammonia and many of the other cleaners. Fairly good natural cleaning products can be purchased from Network Marketing companies such as Amway or www.equinox-products.com or www.vitasalus.com. The less smelly the product the better. Simple Green is very, very toxic and should be avoided. Clorox Bleach and similar products should be avoided. Triad Of Health and Dr. Ilya carry Loalsan which is a pine scented cleaner that can be purchased.

For Acne or Blemishes: Blemish Be Gone from Juice Beauty.  The Luminance Skincare line.

Generally O.k. at Health Food Stores
♣ Geremy Rose (skin care)
♣ Hauschka (some)
♣ Jurlique (some)
♣ Hemp (lipstick)
♣ Burt’s Bees (most is good but avoid sunscreen – not all of their products are safe).

Some common toxic chemicals that you may want to avoid
♣ Phthalates – plastics and blood donor bags, hospital IV drips
♣ BPA (Bisphenol A) – plastics
♣ Iron (sun care)
♣ Titanium dioxide (skin care / nutritional supplements)
♣ Silver nitrate (nutritional supplements / skin care)
♣ Talc
♣ Parabens (nutrition and skin care)
♣ Ether
♣ Most essential oils including some popular “organic” brands.
♣ Zinc gluconate (nutrition)

Resources:
♣ www.skindeep.com the EWG website.
♣ http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/wordsearch
-look up ingredient study on 28,000 products
♣ http://www.newstarget.com/z016898.html
-article on skin care products

Today I went to Safeway to pick up a few items and noticed a young lady who was deliberating over which container of Truvia to buy.  There were many, many, many different options.  Notice how beautiful the packaging is.  Doesn’t it look like it must be good for you from the outside packaging of the container?  Plants are green and strawberries must be healthy, right?  Wrong.  But, anyway…. allow me to continue my story.  No matter how you look at the situation, if the young lady at Safeway buys ANY container of Truvia, the owners of Truvia win and she loses.  Feel free to take some marketing courses to learn more about how marketing works.  For a product like this one, 90% of the cost of the product goes into the packaging of the product and only about 10% of the cost of the product is the actual product itself.  Isn’t that scary?  The same is the case for most packaged goods, especially skin care, make up and perfume.  I wanted the girl to know the truth so since I see her pick one of the containers off of the shelf I let her know, “That is poison.  I wouldn’t suggest you get it.”  She immediately says, “No, it’s not poison.”  But, yes, it is.  In fact, even real sugar is poisonous.  The sugar substitutes are lab experiments that create and then they test out in labs.  They are synthetic chemicals not found anywhere on the planet – they are made in labs.  They are very poisonous.  The original way that saccharin was developed was that there was a scientist at a manufacturing plant somewhere and they noticed that rats that ate a white looking chemical on the ground would die.  The scientist was crazy enough to taste the white looking substance and found that it tasted sweet.  Then, he isolated the compound in the laboratory and they started using it as a sugar substitute.  Saccharin is still on the market despite all of the studies showing its negative effects on brain chemistry and also the research documenting how it causes blindness in people living in warmer climates.  There was nothing that I could say to the girl  to get her to even “listen” to what I was saying.  The concept that something found there on the  grocery store shelf could be poisonous was completely beyond her comprehension and consciousness.  I showed her my business card and let her know that I teach people how to live healthier lives for a living but she was not having any of it.  She was not going to listen to anything that I had to say no matter what.  If you are reading this blog post now then HOPEFULLY YOU WILL LISTEN to the message and not get the message confused with the messenger.  For all of the sugar substitutes that they come out with, they keep finding all of these problems with each of them.  Strangely, even though they find problems with each of them they never remove them from the market place.  Instead, they just come out with a new one and say that it is better.  Are the new ones better?  No, of course not.  They are different.  They are less well researched.  And, THEY HAVE NOT YET DISCOVERED ALL OF THE SIDE EFFECTS OF THE NEW SUGAR SUBSTITUTES THE WAY THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE FOR THE OLD SUGAR SUBSTITUTES.  All of the sugar substitutes are poisonous.  None of them are safe.  If you want to have something sweet then try inositol powder, L-glutamine powder or L-glycine or Di Methyl Glycine or Tri Methyl Glycine or Succinat from sugar cane or honey or molasses or even sugar.  But never use those nasty poisonous sugar substitute laboratory experiments.  That stuff will kill you.

I hope you enjoyed this informative and fun story.  Ok, maybe the story was a bit heavy but that is what you will become if you choose to continue to use the sugar substitutes.  They are truly the cause of belly fat as they cause the belly to become fat in the same way that happens to all people who are developing a toxic liver.