Greenista Girl Neha
Ready to explode over the amount of harmful chems in products? Be prepared to spontaneously combust over this info. In the next few days, the cancer panel will be releasing a 200-page report that focuses on chemicals and its relationship to cancer. Did you know there are 300 contaminants in the umbilical cords of newborns? Before babies are even born, they have chemicals running through their tiny bodies…eek! This report will hopefully push mainstream America to realize the importance of going green and organic. Some of the panel’s solutions include eating food grown without pesticides or growth hormones as well as storing water in glass, not plastic containers due to BPA leeching. To break down the science behind it – the cancer panel believes chemicals used in water, foods, and household products are the cancer-causing culprits.
We Greenista Girls have a few quick tips on how to green items in your house instantly.
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Store water in glass, not plastic bottles – get some SIGG bottles for when you’re on the go.
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Shop at your farmer’s market or the organic section of your grocery store.
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Buy organic milk and eggs to avoid any growth hormones in your dairy products.
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Use green household cleaners or make your own.
Greenista Cocktail Factoid: “Only a few hundred of the more than 80,000 chemicals in use in the United States have been tested for safety,” the report says. It adds: “Many known or suspected carcinogens are completely unregulated.”
Written by Greenista Girl Neha
Photo by Daily Green and Chemical Data Management Systems
Greenista Girl Shivani
Growing belly causing stress of stretch marks? Form a healthy relationship with Bella Mama’s Belly Butter ($15). This line uses essential oils from organically grown plants with no chemical additives and has been used by celebs like Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwen Stefani, Angelina Jolie, and Kate Hudson. We’re loving that the whole line comes in blue glass jars – we plan on reusing our empty jar for cotton balls – and will last throughout your whole pregnancy. The Belly Butter is loaded with hints of sweet orange for collagen production and mandarin and lavender to reduce scarring and inflamed skin and illicit a calming effect. Ahhh … totally relaxing.
Greenista Cocktail Factoid: By using organically-grown plants, Bella Mama products are free of any pesticides. Plus, using essential oils from plants grown in nature are less likely to be loaded with chemicals like factory produced scents and oils.
Written by Greenista Girl Shivani
Photo by Bella Mama and Flickr Meagan
Greenista Girl Shivani
Feeling yellow-bellied about ditching your pre-pregnancy pants for maternity ones? Get brave and try BellaBand’s ($32) new organic cotton version. Originally created for pregnant women, but usable by all, this elastic fabric goes around your waist to hold up your pants during your preggo months and comes in white, black, and sand. Pair it with your unbuttoned normal jeans during your first trimester as well as the 2nd and 3rd to keep your maternity pants from sagging.
Bonus: BellaBand’s great for fitting into those skinny jeans postpartum. BellaBand creators, Ingrid and Isabel, also have a sleek, trendy new line of tanks, leggings, and pants that look super comfy for preggo ladies of any size. Be courageous and show off that sultry baby bod.
Greenista Cocktail Factoid: In the United States alone, approximately 600,000 tons of pesticides and chemical fertilizers are applied to conventional cotton fields each season. Buying organic cotton means you’ll never have to worry about your cotton crops being sprayed with pesticides, which in turn keeps it out of your fabric and the planet, not to mention off your body.
Written by Greenista Girl Shivani
Photo by Ingrid & Isabel
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