In modern society, the way we smell is almost an obsession. In the United States alone, citizens spent between $25 and $30 billion on fragrances and perfumes in 2009, according to the New York Times. Now, it’s completely normal to want to smell good – but this statistic moves from staggering to scary when you start to consider all of the toxins and carcinogens that perfume companies put in their products. That’s potentially $30 billion spent on making people smell better at the cost of our health. Of course, it doesn’t have to be this way, and that’s where some of the organic, sustainable, healthy alternatives that I offer at Living Earth Beauty come in. But before I tell you more about them, let’s take a look at what commercial deodorant use is actually doing to our bodies, and why is so important not to do battle with your body and it’s scent, but instead work in harmony with it.

Your Body’s Natural Scent

Bodily scents are naturally created when the glands of the skin make and secrete sweat. This sweat ends up mixing with the wide variety of living organisms that inhabit the surface of the skin, most notably cornyebacterium, staphylococcus epidermis, and propionibacteria. These break down the larger components of sweat (anything that isn’t water or electrolytes), and produce small molecules such as butyric acid, propionic acid, and isovaleric acid. The particular mix of bacteria that live on your skin, and therefore the combination of small molecules that are made, are determined mostly by your diet and secondarily by your genes. They can then be further influenced by diseases, skin conditions, or any medications you’re taking.

Modern perfumes, deodorants, and anti-perspirants work by doing one of three things:

1. Killing all the good bacteria that lives on the skin.
2. Covering the skin in artificial chemicals and metals, like aluminum, that are toxic to your health.
3. Clogging the sweat glands themselves, which can be very damaging.

But what if, instead of these three harmful things, there was an alternative that worked with the body’s natural processes? Something that promoted the growth of healthy organisms on the skin, and used the by-products they produced as an ingredient to co-create a natural, intoxicating scent? This is where Poetic Pits by Living Libations comes in.

The Better Alternative

 
Every bottle of Poetic Pits is made entirely out of an alchemical blend of essential oils. At the heart of each of these blends is sandalwood essential oil, which comes from a very unique tree and offers a huge list of benefits that I’ll be diving into next week. For now, I’ll offer this brief overview of some of sandalwood’s best properties:

• It’s a powerful anti-inflammatory agent that cools and relaxes the skin. It can help relieve inflammation in nearly every organ, including the delicate tissues of the brain. It’s especially active on the circulatory and nervous systems.
• It inhibits bacteria and stops many harmful microorganisms from growing. It’s even used to disinfect entire living spaces and treat many types on bodily infections.
• It helps soothe and relax muscles while promoting firmness in the skin. The result is an anti-aging effect that results in smooth, youthfully firm skin.

And the best part is, since it works with your skin’s natural oils and secretions, each blend produces a unique scent depending on who’s wearing it. The more you sweat, the better it smells.

Here’s a video of Ron from Living Libations to tell you a bit more about it:

That’s Poetic Pits – currently the best choice for giving yourself a truly natural and amazing scent while actually enhancing your overall health.

Check in next week, where I take a deep look at all of the incredible benefits of essential sandalwood oil.

And if you’ve already fallen in love with Poetic Pits, be sure to leave us a comment below and tell us about your experience!

Perfume, fundamentally, is the sexual attractant of flowers… squeezed from the reproductive glands of plants, perfume is the smell of creation, a sign dramatically delivered to our senses of the Earth’s regenerative powers — a message of hope and a message of pleasure. ~ Tom Robbins

The histories of incense, aromatherapy, and perfume date back to some of human beings’ earliest history. Incense in its first form was discovered around 4,000 B.C. by the Mesopotamians who would burn different resins and woods at their religious ceremonies. Eventually, they began soaking these woods and resins in water that they then rubbed on their bodies. A thousand years later, this made its way to Egypt, and perfumes have been discovered in the tombs of queens and pharaohs.

Perfume In The Modern World

Unfortunately, somewhere along the way we stopped simply using oils or soaking woods and resins and started utilizing a whole host of synthetic processes to create our scents. Some of the chemicals and ingredients with the biggest health risks that you’ll encounter in personal care products hide under the word “fragrance”. It’s a blanket term that the cosmetics industry uses to mask a product’s actual chemical contents. Most companies claim that the main reason for this is so that competitors can’t steal their product’s unique scent, which is reasonable, but the net result is that hundreds of chemicals are added to products without consumers’ knowledge. Since “fragrance” is considered a trade secret, there’s nothing that says those companies have to state what they’re using.

Sensitizers are one type of hidden chemical found in fragrances. They can cause immune system damage and create a permanent allergic reaction in the person who has come into contact with them. Some of these sensitizers affect as many as one in fifty people.

Phthalates are a very broad class of chemicals also found in fragrance. Many of them have been linked to hormone disruption. In particular, diethyl phthalate (DEP) is commonly utilized in fragrance products and has been shown to cause a wide variety of health problems, including sperm damage in men.

You’ll also find synthetic musks in many fragrances, such as musk ketone, galaxolide, and tonalide. These chemicals accumulate in the human body (and in breast milk) and have been shown to disrupt hormones.

Many fragrance chemicals have also been labeled as neurotoxins.

A Healthy Alternative

Fortunately, this doesn’t mean that we can’t smell wonderful and enjoy lovely aromas. We can do this without using synthetic chemicals or risking our health and wellbeing. Whether used alone or blended to create unique scents, essential oils, absolutes, and pure extracts of plants and flowers not only give us the best perfume in the world, they also offer powerful health benefits. Essential oils are extracted directly from plants, yet “perfume” or “fragrance” oils are synthetic and artificially created and thus can also be quite toxic. Even so-called “natural” perfumes and oils can be made with “fragrance” oils. So, be sure to look for scents made with pure plant and flowers essences – essential oils, absolutes, and extracts only.

In nature, a plant’s oils help provide nutrients, protect it from disease, and keep harmful insects at bay. This is what gives essential oils their healing, medicinal, antioxidant, and antibiotic properties. When applied to the skin, essential oils usually reach every cell in the body in the next twenty-one minutes, regenerating DNA, removing toxins, and providing powerful antioxidants.

So, if you’d like to smell amazing and get skin and health benefits at the same time, look for perfumes and colognes made with essential oils. Here are the most divine and unique organic perfumes and colognes I’ve ever come across. These are most natural perfumes available and are made only from pure essential oils. There are various blends to suit everyone with floral, exotic, earthy, woodsy, sultry, sweet, and etherial scents to choose from. Enjoy the sensual wonders.

All About Shampoos

A shampoo should satisfy all these requirements: highest quality natural ingredients, totally organic, non-detergent and containing no artificial colors or scents. Many commercial shampoos on the market—even those claiming to be “natural”— contain artificial colors, perfumes and detergents that dry and damage hair, clogging follicle openings rather than cleansing your scalp.

Detergents and color additives leave harmful coatings on the hair. Synthetic scents dry out hair, damaging the shafts by making them overly brittle. The scalp becomes plugged up, disturbing its natural pH balance. Dandruff, itchiness, premature thinning and significant, eventual hair loss are the undesirable results.

In addition to harsh chemicals, shampoos containing such ingredients as berries, tomatoes, guava, etc. are wisely avoided. You need an effective natural shampoo for your hair, not a fruit salad! However enticingly “organic” they may sound, these not-so-naturally derived fruit and vegetable ingredients tend to plug up pores, dry out hair and disturb pH balance, which damages the natural texture of your hair.

Contrary to ‘conventional wisdom,’ it is not necessary to purchase special formulas for dry, normal or oily hair; or short or long hairstyles. In fact, these supposedly special-purpose shampoos contain even more harmful, toxic ingredients.

When selecting a shampoo, trust your nose! If the shampoo has no synthetic scent and smells wholesome and appealing instead, it is very likely a good, healthy shampoo for you. The ‘smell test’ is highly reliable and individualized. Each of us has a different chemical balance that changes with circumstance and age. There is no single shampoo that can be recommended indefinitely for everyone.

When to Shampoo

Numerous conflicting views on the subject of shampooing have many people thoroughly confused. While some theories advise shampooing every day, others insist that cleansing daily dries and damages the hair. Fortunately it is not as complicated as it may seem. A simple, common sense rule to follow is: Observe your hair and decide for yourself how often you need to shampoo. For many people, shampooing every other day maintains a healthy balance of scalp and hair.

On the other hand, people whose brushing ritual is correct and consistent have often found they can easily extend shampooing to every three or four days. Any of these regimens can be effective for you. As long as your new growth of hair is maintaining its luster, health and vitality, the cleansing schedule you are following is right for you.

How to Shampoo

At first glance, recommendations that we always lather up twice sound like a gimmick to sell more shampoo. But there is actual value in this advice. Healthy shampooing has two parts: The first is loosening up debris to free the hair and scalp of dirt and dead cells. Since you might massage these unwanted microbes back into follicle openings if you shampooed only once, you are well advised to do a second shampoo. This ensures that no contaminants will retard new hair growth, damage oil glands or upset the natural fall-out and reproductive cycles of your hair. Instead, the bad stuff all goes down the drain!

The second shampooing (with massage of your clean head) also stimulates blood flow to the scalp and opens follicles, allowing nourishment for each root, bulb and hair shaft. When every follicle is adequately nourished and each sebaceous oil gland is properly activated, your own natural oils are distributed to lubricate the entire scalp and all hair shafts. A natural coating of oil is vital to the healthy maintenance of scalp and hair. It keeps the outer layer of hair moisturized and prevents drying.

Step One: Wet your hair and apply shampoo to your scalp. Massage lightly into hair and scalp, and then rinse thoroughly with warm water.

Step Two: After rinsing, take a bit more shampoo and massage it gently into clean hair and scalp. Rinse out carefully until no shampoo remains and finish with cool water. Towel dry. Now you are ready to brush and style.

Your shampooing regimen should ideally contain three or more organic shampoos that are rotated regularly. Over a period of time, scalp and hair can become resistant/ immune to a single shampoo, upsetting alkaline pH balance. Regularly alternating shampoos helps your hair and scalp stay properly receptive to thorough cleansing and nourishing every time.

Choosing the Best Organic Shampoos

The answer is simple!

Morrocco Method Shampoos are the world’s BEST ORGANIC SHAMPOOS!

They are based on the principles of rotation and totally organic methods of caring for your hair. They have developed five shampoos, formulated according to the five elements which constitute, in varying degrees, the essence of every living thing in the universe: Air, Earth, Fire Water and Ether. These Elemental Shampoos contain only the finest organic ingredients derived from all over the world.

Morrocco Method Shampoos harness the power of nature’s most potent herbs, oils and minerals; they are formulated, blended and bottled according to the 13 Moon Lunar Astrology Cycle to maximize their vitality.

Although all of the shampoos and conditioners cleanse, detoxify, nourish and stimulate blood flow to hair and scalp, each one delivers a particular treatment:

* Air Essence nourishes and heals
* Earth Essence detoxifies
* Fire Essence stimulates blood flow
* Sea/ Water Essence cleanses
* Heavenly Chi energizes and conditions

When alternated regularly, these five Elemental Shampoos provide the finest, most effective holistic hair care treatment in the world!

Why are Morrocco Method Shampoos the Best Organic Shampoos?

Because they are:

Simply Pure, 100% Natural, RAW, VEGAN, Green, Wild Crafted Organic, Fair Trade Hair and Body Care Products for all hair types that are 100% chemical free, family safe, baby safe and pet friendly

Detoxify, nourish, stimulate, and cleanse hair and scalp in the most holistic way possible, leaving no harmful chemical residues. Good for the whole body. Nontoxic, gluten free, and non-allergenic. Safe for the whole family.

They contain all-natural vegan ingredients with the ancient shamanic process of manufacturing, using the 13-moon lunar cycle to energize the products and increase their potency.

All Morrocco Method 5 Elements products are gluten free and 100% color safe!

None of the products are tested on animals and no suppliers test on animals.

What do they do?

* Stimulate and increase hair growth organically.
* Address hair loss, hair thinning, dandruff, dry hair, and scalp irritability caused by alopecia, candida, psoriasis, and lupus.
* Highly recommended for chemically sensitive individuals, vegans, and all who seek raw and natural remedies that use marine and botanical sources.

The result is the safest, most naturally vital shampoo available in the marketplace today!

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*Much of the above wonderfully informative text is Courtesy of Morrocco Method INT’L

For many of us, all the products we use on a daily basis ‘slide under the radar’ when they come into our home! We never think to question what ingredients may be in our makeup, or a hand soap, or our facial cleanser.

It was a revelation when I woke up to the fact that every single product that touches my skin (or I inhale, in the case of cleaners, perfume, candles, anything that has ‘fragrance’) HAS AN EFFECT on my body and on my wellness!

Skin care has always been a great passion of mine. It is a heavenly way for me to deeply care for myself. I also lived most of my life with Psoriasis, Acne, Eczema, Rashes, and highly reactive skin. For many years, I was using a ‘normal’ regimen of cleansers, moisturizers, makeup, and eye serums from popular department stores, online stores, and even natural food stores. I always bought the ‘organic’ brands that promised beauty with beautiful labels. I kept trying new ones and spent hundreds of dollars a month in the hopes that something, anything ‘might help me get rid of my skin conditions and stop the breakouts!’

As I began eating a healthy, natural diet many years ago, I also started using natural skin and body care. My evolution toward purity in my diet grew hand-in-hand with the purity I sought in skin and body care products. As my diet became more pure, it also felt intuitive to me to use more pure skin and body care products. It wasn’t until I began living a 100% Raw Vegan lifestyle, that I realized the degree to which purity is not only important, but also essential for our bodies and spirits to thrive!

With my new way of eating came increased sensitivity – I simply couldn’t use any of the ‘Organic’ and ‘Natural’ skin and body care products I was using before without feeling sick or getting worse breakouts. I was also in a place where I no longer was willing to accept having bad skin. I desired beautiful, healthy skin so much that I studied and researched endlessly, and constantly experimented with different products for skin and different ways of healing my body and my skin. I did this for years. And also for years, I searched for skin and body care that would be both radically healing and effective

‘Why would I eat chemical-free food, yet use any chemicals on my skin?!’

(even the chemicals in supposed ‘natural’ skin care’)

This became not only a question for me to ask, but to answer and live that answer. That was a life-changing decision! My skin immediately started clearing up! And it is not only clear, but also radiantly beautiful now! I was so used to having bad skin for so long that when I receive compliments on my skin, which is a very frequent occurrence now, I am still surprised!

I healed multiple chronic diseases in my body and have beautified my skin by removing chemicals from my life and choosing food and skin care that are as close to nature as possible.

I knew that the Purity I found through toxin-free organic skincare, shampoo, and body products was my gift to share with the world!

That’s why I’ve created Purify My Life!

This is a FREE downloadable .pdf report that will teach you:

• WHY Purity is an essential secret to Beauty

• And WHAT you can do to take your body from toxic to Pure!

That’s it – I am giving away this program to you today, because I care! No catches! I strongly encourage you to download it immediately! (Link is at the bottom of this post.)

Now – I’ve got a SURPRISE for you!

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