. I recently signed on as a representative for a company that specializes in replacing our everyday products with safer, healthier products in an effort to remove toxins from our environment and, thereby, from our bodies. This led me to do a great deal of research of my own and what II guess I'd call myself a latent environmentalist. Several years ago our community started a recycling program for plastic containers, aluminum cans, papers, magazines, and cardboard. Once I started collecting these items, I first noticed that we were putting out fewer bags of trash each week. Then I noticed what a large quantity of recyclables we were accumulating every two weeks. On some pickup days, the bags were so full we couldn't even tie them closed. This made me start thinking, if our family of four was producing this much recyclable "trash" every couple weeks, what would the entire town produce? Granted, I live in a small town of about 20,000; but 20,000 times what we were collecting would be staggering! It made me even more determined to recycle every single item I possibly could. I was determined to do everything in my power to help clean up our environment, as well as not contributing to further pollution.

In the past few months I've become aware of an even more serious form of pollution or contamination. That is the contamination of our bodies by chemicals in the products we use in our homes each and every day. I recently signed on as a representative for a company that specializes in replacing our everyday products with safer, healthier products in an effort to remove toxins from our environment and, thereby, from our bodies. This led me to do a great deal of research of my own and what I

h week. Then I noticed what a large quantity of recyclables we were accumulating every two weeks. On some pickup days, the bags were so full we couldn't even tie them closed. This made me start thinking, if our family of four was producing this much recyclable "trash" every couple weeks, what would the entire town produce? Granted, I live in a small town of about 20,000; but 20,000 times what we were collecting would be staggering! It made me even more determined to recycle every single item I possibly could. I was determined to do everything in my power to help clean up our environment, as well as not contributing to further pollution.

In the past few months I've become aware of an even more serious form of pollution or contamination. That is the contamination of our bodies by chemicals in the products we use in our homes each and every day. I recently signed on as a representative for a company that specializes in replacing our everyday products with safer, healthier products in an effort to remove toxins from our environment and, thereby, from our bodies. This led me to do a great deal of research of my own and what I

s, what would the entire town produce? Granted, I live in a small town of about 20,000; but 20,000 times what we were collecting would be staggering! It made me even more determined to recycle every single item I possibly could. I was determined to do everything in my power to help clean up our environment, as well as not contributing to further pollution.

In the past few months I've become aware of an even more serious form of pollution or contamination. That is the contamination of our bodies by chemicals in the products we use in our homes each and every day. I recently signed on as a representative for a company that specializes in replacing our everyday products with safer, healthier products in an effort to remove toxins from our environment and, thereby, from our bodies. This led me to do a great deal of research of my own and what I

ean up our environment, as well as not contributing to further pollution.

In the past few months I've become aware of an even more serious form of pollution or contamination. That is the contamination of our bodies by chemicals in the products we use in our homes each and every day. I recently signed on as a representative for a company that specializes in replacing our everyday products with safer, healthier products in an effort to remove toxins from our environment and, thereby, from our bodies. This led me to do a great deal of research of my own and what I

. I recently signed on as a representative for a company that specializes in replacing our everyday products with safer, healthier products in an effort to remove toxins from our environment and, thereby, from our bodies. This led me to do a great deal of research of my own and what I found truly astonished me.

I home school my two daughters, so one day for a science project we gathered all the cleaning products and all the personal hygiene products in our home and listed all the ingredients from the labels. We then looked up all those ingredients on the Internet. What we found were ingredients that are known carcinogens: ingredients that can cause physical problems like liver disease, pancreatic problems, birth defects in pregnant women, etc. Now, I know you're probably thinking these were only in the cleaning products, but you'd be dead wrong. They were also in the shampoos, conditioners, toothpastes, lotions, etc.

Did you know that your largest living organ is your skin? Did you also know that your skin is like a sponge – absorbing whatever it comes in contact with? Think about all the medications that now come in "patch" form for absorption through the skin. Now think about all the products that your skin comes in contact with: laundry detergent, bleach, dry bleach, fabric softener, floor cleaners, bathroom cleaners, dish liquid, dishwasher detergent, soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, makeup