| 1. Make your own deodorant.You can make your own | | | | right to use toxic products on our hair, for instance. We |
| deodorant by adding together equal parts of baking | | | | believe that a product used outside our body will not |
| soda and cornstarch. This is a wonderful recipe for | | | | affect the inside of our body. This is not true. |
| deodorant, and it works. The baking soda absorbs the | | | | Therefore, if you would not put a product in your body |
| odor. The cornstarch absorbs the wetness.2. | | | | (eat it), please do not put it on your body. The reverse |
| Perfumes are not necessarily your friend.Perfumes | | | | holds true.7. Less is more.Many of us have cabinets full |
| can be costly and may contain toxins. Pure essential | | | | of cosmetics and so-called health products. We are |
| oils can keep you smelling heavenly. Essential oils have | | | | bombarded constantly with products that promise to |
| also been proven to have many healing benefits.3. | | | | make us healthy, youthful and beautiful. However, the |
| Read the label.Sometimes it is as simple as reading the | | | | truth is, less is more. Find products with the least |
| label. Though many labels are purposely misleading, | | | | amount of ingredients. Single-ingredient products, such |
| reading the label will help us know whether a product is | | | | as coconut oil, Shea butter or various clays, are superb |
| one that we want to put in or on our bodies. If you see | | | | products. Likewise, an occasional meal that consists |
| a long list of ingredients, and you don't know what | | | | only of one nutritious food will give your digestive |
| most of them are or what they do, you probably want | | | | system a rest.8. Research.We spend a great deal of |
| to avoid that product.4. Check your kitchen.The best | | | | time in researching vacation spots we want to travel |
| products for our beauty and health are often in our | | | | to. We will ask in-depth questions about whether the |
| kitchens. Nature provides wonderful fruits, vegetable, | | | | car we're thinking of buying gets good mileage and |
| seeds and berries, any of which make the best | | | | drives well. However, we spend little time researching |
| cosmetics and body-care products. Somehow or | | | | the products that we put in and on our bodies. Our |
| other, we have learned to doubt Nature. We feel that | | | | bodies are our temples. Learn about your body and |
| we know best. We have gone against the laws of | | | | the food and products you consume.9. Talk to your |
| Nature in favor of commercialism.5. Wash new clothes | | | | elders.Many of our ancestors knew the health and |
| before you wear them.The clothes you buy go | | | | beauty secrets of the plants and the earth. Over the |
| through many processes and many hands before you | | | | years, however, we have been taught to discount their |
| buy them yourself. If the garment is washable, please | | | | knowledge of health and beauty as old-fashioned. The |
| be sure to wash it before you wear it for the first time. | | | | beauty and health industry would love you to believe |
| This will ensure that excess chemicals, pesticides, dyes | | | | this. Do not let our elders take these secrets with them |
| and bleaches are removed before it meets your | | | | to the grave.Wambui Bahati "Miss Inspiration" is a |
| body.6. Our body is one unit.We often forget that our | | | | professional speaker and entertainer. Her mission: |
| body is one unit. Many of us have the idea that it is all | | | | Reminding you of your magnificence. |