Natural Body Product Workshop

Amy and I (Andrea) held a workshop on making body products this past Saturday. Did you know we use about 10 body products a day (if you're me you use about 25!)? From brushing our teeth, washing the dishes, using shampoo, lotions, etc, we absorb everything we put onto our skin...the problem? Many of the products we buy are filled with nasty chemicals. As our body absorbs these it doesn't get a chance to be filtered by our livers, thus scientists have found preservatives (found in lotions, shampoos) in breast cancer tumours!

Our purpose was to create this awareness as well as to show others how easy & fun it can be to make your own products.

Lip balm ingredients: beeswax, cocoa butter, vitamen E, and essential oils.

Liz adding some essential oil to her almond face oil.

Three happy ladies making body spray.

Darlene giving her green foamy soap a shake.

Karin scenting her face oil.

The prices include the full price of product and container. The price in brackets is the container cost. Not bad considering you can use the containers over and over. Amy used to pay around $30 for her Clinique moisterizer and now she pays $3.70.

The finished products: Lip balm, foaming hand/body soap, dish soap, room/face/body spray, and face/body/bath oil

The following is a sheet that you can fold and put in your wallet as a guide of which ingredients to avoid when you are shopping for things such as baby wipes, cosmetics, of whathaveyou...

http://www.ewg.org/files/EWG_cosmeticsguide.pdf