Toxic Free DIY Mini Series

To make a long story short, I turned my passion into a small business selling soaps, candles, bath soaks, massage oils, scrubs and more, in the beginning from my front porch (I live on a busy street) and then local farmer’s markets. After a few years I was at the point where I needed to have a bigger production space and go online if I was going to continue as a business so I decided to keep it as something I would do for myself and friends instead. As a highly creative person I tend to be working on many things at once and wanted more time for art, cooking, kids and self enrichment among other things- who doesn’t right!

With a few basic ingredients you can make and replace most of the bath and beauty products that you buy in the store. The best part is simple is always better for your skin and body.…and….

Heather Kallimani from Rockin the Green Life

My name is Heather Kallimani and I am “rockin the green life“! I have a wonderful husband who puts up with me and all my ideas and 4 beautiful, healthy children that I’m teaching to STAY healthy. We are blessed with our “mini-farm” that includes 65 laying hens, fruit trees and a garden. We also raise 1-2 batches of pastured meat chickens a year that we butcher ourselves; to save us money.

I am passionate, some might say obsessed, with learning how to stay healthy and living “green”. I haven’t always been this way. I used to live on candy bars, Mountain Dew, ice cream and gas station cappuccino’s. Now I love raw milk, organic produce, grass-fed beef, pastured poultry and eggs, gardening and zero-waste (although I’m not quite there yet).

After my second child was born, my mother-in-law came to me and shared about toxic chemicals in baby products. I had no idea! I would’ve never even dreamed that companies had such little disregard for our lives to put toxic chemicals in their products! It angers me! What do I do about it? I immediately stop using those products and tell everyone I know about it! It can be inconvenient. But I would rather be inconvenienced than have cancer or another type of disease.

And so, I’ve started my blog, Rockin the Green Life. I am hoping to inspire others to do their part and to learn something new. These companies are going to keep polluting our environment and our bodies unless we do something, which means writing to them, signing petitions, boycotting their products and voting with our dollars. How are they going to change if we don’t change first?

Come back every Friday for the next couple weeks to get a new beauty or personal care product recipe. We’ll be starting with Pamela’s recipe for homemade sugar scrub.

In the mean time, check out Heather’s recipes on how to make your own massage oil, all natural homemade disinfectants, and homemade dishwasher detergent.

See you next Friday to learn how to make your own sugar scrub so you can exfoliate your skin to leave it radiant and young looking!

Until next time,
Loriel - Healthy Roots, Happy Soul