| When you step into the market to pick up a bar of | | | | allergy.I had a better idea.While allergy testing covers |
| soap, what is it you're really buying? Phrases like | | | | most airborne irritants, it does not cover the common |
| beauty bar, deodorant bar, moisturizing bar, and the list | | | | chemicals we subject ourselves to everyday. Since |
| goes on and on, is only telling you one thing, you are | | | | my daughter and I are both severely allergic to |
| not buying soap. What you are purchasing is a | | | | formaldehyde, a common preservative used in most |
| petroleum based detergent product.Soap, by definition, | | | | hand creams, lotions, lip balms, and cosmetics, it |
| is a cleansing agent made from the mixture of the | | | | occurred to me that he might suffer from a similar |
| sodium salts of various fatty acids or natural oils and | | | | allergy. So, I stripped his bedding, pillows, clothing, |
| fat. Because of FDA regulations, a cleaning product | | | | curtains, and washed everything in a batch of |
| cannot be listed as soap unless it actually contains the | | | | homemade olive oil laundry soap.The result: After two |
| fatty acids and natural oils combined with lye to | | | | weeks his sinuses began to clear. Within a month all of |
| produce soap.So, what's the difference you may ask? | | | | the symptoms he routinely suffered; from migraine |
| Let me tell you a story about my son. For two years | | | | headaches to breathing difficulties, gradually faded |
| he suffered with severe allergies, chronic sinus | | | | away as though they had never existed.Many people |
| infections, and was all around miserable. The first step | | | | today realize that our homes are over-saturated with |
| in dealing with his problems was to remove his | | | | a host of chemicals, many of which carry moderate to |
| adenoids that had become infected. After the surgery, | | | | severe side effects with prolonged exposure. What |
| his sinuses cleared up for all of two weeks. Then once | | | | we fail to realize is how many of them are completely |
| again he succumbed to yet another sinus | | | | unnecessary.Making your own soap is both a |
| infection.Unable to determine the reason for the sinus | | | | rewarding and simple process and one that can truly |
| infections, he was put through allergy testing. After two | | | | benefit your entire family.MK Welty hosts an |
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| on), they determined that he reacted to absolutely | | | | instructions, supplies and more at |
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| to monitor his diet for the next month in the hopes of | | | | information on herbs commonly used in soap making. |
| determining weather or not he suffered from a food | | | | |