It's terribly depressing to try to take care of your body when everywhere you look there is chemicals and corn syrup and cetyl alchohol in EVERYTHING.
If you've tried to take a step in the right direction by using "bert's bees" or "toms", you might as well rub poison on your body BECAUSE: they cared more about money then their integrity, and sold their companies for millions. Take a look at the back of your Tom's deoderant you bought a month ago, and the deoderant on the shelf today. Those idiots added "aluminum".
You can read about it here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/burts-bees-toms-of-maine-green-products_n_1438019
I recently switched to "Ava Anderson" non toxic.
http://avaandersonnontoxic.com/larapriest
Ava Anderson's deoderant actually works. I do have to apply it more then once a day, but other natural deoderants I tried never seemed to work.
Ava's body butter smells and works great, along with the face wash, which is working wonders for my skin. I feel so great not putting harmful chemicals on my skin.
I really recommend making your own health products when possible too. But deoderant is just one of those things...
We can take better care of ourselves and our families, one step at a time!! (I still have "Pantene Pro V"...till it runs out....shh)
Check out the toxicity level in the products in your home http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
