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Make Your Own Natural Toothpaste

Most toothpaste contains sugar, fluoride, artificial colors, and other harmful ingredients that are best avoided.  Instead of using the toxic commercial varieties, why not make your own?  It’s simple …

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Spring Clean Your Personal Care Products

Our quest for beauty and attractiveness may be damaging our health and the health of the planet.  Many personal care products contain toxic ingredients that we need to avoid.  Here are the ingredients…

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Cleaning the House with Toothpaste?

The one lie that I told my husband while we were dating was that I am a good housekeeper. The apartment of my carefree single days (and by carefree I mean working 60 hours a week at an internet star…

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This Food Has 180 Times the Fluoride of Drinking Water

Photo Courtesy Of:  iStockphoto/Thinkstock Jeff Green has been an activist in the movement to eliminate toxic fluoride from your water supply for the past 15 years. With more than 60 percent of U.…

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15 Brilliant Uses for Toothpaste

By Zana Faulkner, DivineCaroline Toothpaste: it whitens, brightens, deodorizes, removes stains, and restores and protects enamel. But toothpaste's cleaning capabilities work wonders on many things …

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5 Homemade Natural Beauty Products

By Sawyard Rebhal, Networx In this eco-conscious time (and in this tough economy), everybody's trying to go green while saving some green. And the good news is, these two often go hand in hand.…

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5 Homemade Toothpaste Recipes Put to the Test

By Philip Schmidt, Hometalk When you stop to think about it, conventional store-bought toothpaste does leave a lot to be desired. It's very foamy, it's sickly sweet and it's loaded with stuff…

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Homemade Toothpaste

Skip the harmful chemicals in many commercial toothpastes and make your own. This is a simple, inexpensive, odor-eliminating, tooth-whitening, and very effective formula from Organic Body Care Recipes…

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Floss for Health

Recently, while joking and bemoaning with a good girlfriend about the realities and our fears around getting older, she said, “I’m flossing like a maniac!”  I laughed because that was one of the behav…

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5 Recipes for Homemade Personal Care Products

Whether we're talking toxic perfumes or the mystery ingredients in our toothpaste, store-bought personal care products are full of questionable ingredients. We can shell out the big bucks for more na…

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